Post #197876 by I, Zombie on Sun, Nov 13, 2005 7:22 PM

On 2005-11-13 16:03, professahhummingflowah wrote:

My belief is that he probably approached construction of his setlists this way, so that to cater to as wide a group of audience as possible?

Professah, I think your right on with your thoughts on Denny's approach to his set lists. No doubt he tried to cover a lot of ground, especially since I would imagine his audiences (at least in the late 50s and 60s) consisted of a lot of tourists from the mainland, who kinda expected to hear "hawaiian" songs along with the exotica and jazz.

And it's kinda consistent for Liberty to put out a live LP regardless of the fact it didn't contain a lot of his hits. I mean when you think of a live lp, you usually get the hits, right? But Liberty really milked the Denny phenomena as much as it could as far as I can tell, and probably didn't even think about that. Which isn't to say the record is bad -- by no means. But again, I'm not sure if Liberty cared. It had something a little bit different, with Denny's name on it, so they went for it.
It's that sort of approach to Denny that no doubt led to the "ghosted" LPs later in Denny's career at Liberty, when other artists played the music but the albums got released as Martin Denny records.

But hey, who's complaining...

I, Z