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Hank Penny
Background information
Birth name
Herbert Clayton Penny
Born
(1918-09-18)September 18, 1918 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Died
April 17, 1992(1992-04-17) (aged 73) California
Genres
Western swing, country
Occupation(s)
Musician
Instrument(s)
Banjo
Years active
1930s–1980s
Musical artist
Herbert Clayton Penny (September 18, 1918 – April 17, 1992) was an American musician who played banjo mainly in the Western swing genre.[1] He also worked as a comedian best known for his backwoods character "That Plain Ol' Country Boy" on TV with Spade Cooley. He was married to country singer Sue Thompson from 1953–63.
In 1952, Penny began hosting his own local Los Angeles TV series, The HankPenny Show, which was canceled after seven weeks. By 1954, Penny moved to Las...
Penny was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and raised in Chatsworth, California, the daughter of former Western Swing bandleader and comedian HankPenny...
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Sue Thompson and country musician HankPenny, Penny was familiar with recording studios from a young age. In 1989, Penny recorded, mixed and produced k.d...
in a band led by former West Coast Western Swing bandleader-comedian HankPenny. During the very early 1960s, he was also prominent in the backing band...
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television show hosted by HankPenny. By 1957, he was working on seven different weekly shows in the LA area, including The HankPenny Show, The Cal Worthington...
Within a year, she divorced Martin, and married HankPenny, a comedian and singer, in 1953. Penny and Thompson hosted a TV show in Los Angeles together...
1937–38 season, he had more interest in country fiddling. Bryant joined HankPenny and his Radio Cowboys, an Atlanta-based western music band. Felice was...
Bob Wills, Spade Cooley, Bill Boyd, Tommy Duncan and HankPenny. Boggs was featured on Penny's 1946 hit instrumental "Steel Guitar Stomp" with electric...
(1978) "Long Distance Operator" – Little Milton (1950) "Hold The Phone" – HankPenny (1951) "La Bochinchera" – Machito & His Orchestra with Graciela Perez...
Alton describes how he taught Merle Travis how to read and write music) HankPenny and Joe Maphis, all of whom became lifelong friends. In 1943, he and Grandpa...
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into Venice. Another source states Wills attracted 8,600 fans. In 1950, HankPenny and Armand Gautier opened the Palomino in North Hollywood, which became...
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5,000 people. After his time with Bob Wills, Remington played in the HankPenny band and recorded "Remington's Ride" in 1949. Leo Fender was a musical...
admired by contemporaries including Tex Ritter, Tex Williams, Teddy Wilds, HankPenny and Ole Rasmussen. By 1948, Wills's drinking was becoming too out of control...
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