Kenny Sargent

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78s by the Casa Loma Orchestra: The Rodgers and Hart song Blue Moon with Kenny Sargent

Kenneth "Kenny" Sargent (* 1906 , † 1969 ) was an American swing musician (vocals, saxophone) and radio presenter , who was best known in the 1930s as a ballad singer in the Casa Loma Orchestra .

Live and act

Sargent worked for Francis Craig and Blue Steele in the late 1920s ; He achieved national fame from 1931 through his membership in the Casa Loma Orchestra, in which he also played the saxophone. As a band singer, he was involved in the band's hits in the early 1930s such as Under a Blanket of Blue (1933, # 6), Spellbound (1934, # 10), I Never Had a Chance (1934, # 6), Moonglow (1934 , # 8) or The Champagne Waltz (1934, # 7). Sargent and the Casa Loma Orchestra had their first number 1 hit with the Rodgers & Hart song Blue Moon , which stayed in the charts for eight weeks. In February 1935 they were able to build on this success with the title When I Grow Too Old to Dream , which stayed at # 1 for four weeks. Other successful titles in the 1930s were With All My Heart (1936, # 9), I've Got My Heart Set on You (1937, # 17), Sweet As a Song (1938, # 19), which later became the jazz standard You Go to My Head (1938, # 9) and most recently Don't Get Around Much Anymore (1943, # 8).

In 1943 he left the Casa Loma Orchestra to begin a career as a disc jockey. In the 1950s he was known for his broadcasts in the Dallas , Texas area, which were broadcast on radio stations KLIF and WRR.

Discographic notice

  • Kenny Sargent with Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra: Kenny Sargent - The Big Bands' Vocalists (A Jazz)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ED Thompson Nashville Nostalgia 2003, p. 146
  2. ↑ Portrait (Allmusic)
  3. ^ Gerhard Klußmeier: Jazz in the Charts. Another view on jazz history. Liner notes and booklet for the 100 CD edition. Membrane International GmbH. ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4
  4. ↑ Ronald Garay Gordon McLendon: The Maverick of Radio (Contributions to the Study of Mass Media & Communications) 1992, p. 72
personal data
SURNAME Sargent, Kenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sargent, Kenneth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and disc jockey
DATE OF BIRTH 1906
DATE OF DEATH 1969