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Jack Delaney

Biography

Jack Delaney (March 19, 1900 – November 27, 1948) was a world light heavyweight boxing champion and contender for the heavyweight crown. One of the most popular fighters of the 1920s, the French Canadian was born Ovila Chapdelaine in Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada. His parents moved their family to the United States on August 15, 1904, where they initially lived in Holyoke, Massachusetts before settling in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Delaney became a United States Citizen on October 23, 1936.

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Credited work

138 releases · 33 albums · active 1951–2014

  • Performance · 202

Studios: Dixieland Jubilee (3) · Parisian Room, New Orleans · Studio In The Country · Shrine Auditorium

Frequent collaborators

  • Pete Fountain
  • Various
  • Jack Delaney And His New Orleans Jazz Babies
  • Sharkey Bonano
  • Sharkey And His Kings Of Dixieland
  • The Lakefront Loungers
  • Frank Bull
  • Lizzie Miles

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