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Hank Penny
Hank Penny is credited on 234 releases across 93 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
234
Pressings credited
93
Albums
8
Decades active
9
In collections
Biography
Herbert Clayton Penny (September 18, 1918 – April 17, 1992) was an American musician who sang and played banjo mainly in the Western swing subgenre of country music. He blended country and western music with dixieland, swing, and most notably bebop jazz styles, earning the nickname “the king of hillbilly bebop”. He also worked as a comedian best known for his backwoods character "That Plain Ol' Country Boy" on TV with Spade Cooley. He was married to country singer Sue Thompson from 1953–63.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
234 releases · 93 albums · active 1950–2023
- Performance · 264
- Other credits · 12
Studios: CBS Studios, London · Albert Studios · Wiley Sound Studios · Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Wynonie Harris
- Various
- Chicken Shack
- Sue Thompson
- Freddy King
- Lucifer (9)
- Hank Penny And His Orchestra
- Emile Ford
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