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Martin Denny
 
Date of birth: 10 April 1911
Date of death: 02 March 2005
Country Of Origin: America
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" Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone. "

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" Oh yeah, that was the thing to do at that time. This was before the new wave of bebop started. "

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" Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States. "

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" So I would consider that it was my first professional tour, although I had played before that when I was going to school. "

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" So then, as a gag, we flew over Buenos Aires on this plane with our instruments, and the pilots turned off the engine. So as we glided silently, we played "Fight On For Old S.C." over the two loudspeakers that were attached to the wings! "

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" So, here we are in Santiago, Chile and the President had absconded. There were mob scenes and people were all up in arms. It was pretty grim. "

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" The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki! "

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" This particular plane was called a "San Jose" and it was later lost in the mountains, and wasn't recovered until a year later. "

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" We also played for the American ambassador, there was a lot of society that we were exposed to then. We opened up another nightclub called "The Whoopie", it was down in the basement of a building, and we were able to draw a lot of people from society. "

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" We out started playing nothing but American music, but along the way we started playing some other native music. Of course, as far as rhumbas and things, they came from Cuba. My first recording was done in 1933 on Victor. "

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" Well, I played with Jimmy Grier who was well-known on most of the West Coast. And in later years, I did a lot of tours, including one with Betty Hutton."

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