Eric Delaney

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Eric Delaney (born May 22, 1924 in Acton , London - † July 15, 2011 ) was a British drummer , percussionist and band leader who was popular in England in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Life

Delaney appeared in a variety show at Troquette, Elephant and Castle when he was ten . At the age of sixteen he won an award for best swing drummer and in the 1940s he became a member of the Bert Ambrose Octet with George Shearing on piano. From 1947 to 1954 he performed with the Geraldo Orchestra and also worked as a session musician in the recording studios and for film, television and radio. In 1954 ér founded his own band and recorded for the newly founded label Pye Records in the following years . At Mercury Records he had a hit with Oranges and Lemons ; there his album Mainly Delaney was released . He appeared three times on the Royal Variety Show , first in 1956.

Delaney specialized in up-tempo dancehall music, which often appeared under the rock 'n' roll label, but was closer to the music of Geraldo and Joe Loss . Alan Roper was hired as arranger; with the brass section consisting of five trumpets and four saxophones, three tenor and one baritone saxophone, Delaney expressed his admiration for Woody Herman's big band .

In 1959, he downsized his orchestra to a six-piece band, in which Tony Fisher , Alan Skidmore , Kenny Salmon and later Steve Gray and Jim Lawless played. As with many similar artists, Delaney's music went out of style with the advent of the Beatles . Nevertheless he remained active in Great Britain in the following years and performed mostly in holiday resorts, such as Pleasure Beach Blackpool . From 1986 he worked in Benidorm , Spain, before returning to England in 2006.

Delaney's life - with photographs and notes from fellow musicians like Kenny Ball , Elkie Brooks , Terry Lightfoot, and Humphrey Lyttelton - was depicted in Eddie Sammons' biography The Magnificent Eric Delaney .

In addition to the drums, in which he used two bass drums with tom-toms, Delaney played numerous percussion instruments such as xylophone , glockenspiel , timpani , marching drums , tubular bells , various Chinese gongs and tam-tams and included brooms and whistles in his shows.

His grandson Jake Delaney is also a drummer.

Discographic notes

Pye

The Eric Delanay Band

  • Cockles and Mussels / Say Si Si (1956)
  • Oranges and Lemons / Delaney's Delight (1956)
  • Rockin 'the Tymps / Ain't She Sweet (1956)
  • Rock 'n' Roll King Cole / Time for Chimes (1957)
  • Fanfare Jump / Jingle Bells (1957)

Eric Delaney's Big Beat Six

  • Big Noise from Winnetka / Big Beat (1965)

Parlophone

The Eric Delanay Band

  • Bass Drum Boogie / Let's Get Organized (1960)
  • Drum Twist / Yes Indeed (1961)
  • Washboard Blues Twist / Sing, Sing, Sing (1962)
  • Manhattan Spiritual / Down Home (1962)

Marble Arch

  • The Big Beat Of Eric Delaney (Pye Records, 1968)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eric Delaney at Allmusic (English)
  2. ↑ a b Obituary in The Telegraph
  3. ↑ Eddie Sammons, The Magnificent Eric Delaney (Upfront Publishing, 2007)
personal data
SURNAME Delaney, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Acton , London
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 2011