The Lucknow Sentinel, 1969-05-07, Page 8MarfKemley:Orchesfta.ii
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Music 'lovers in the district will
be in for,a real treat• Thursday
May 15th when the Lucknow and:
District Lions Club is bringing
Mart, Kenney and His Orchestra.
to Wingham. Known as "Canada's
Number One Dance Band" , Mart.•
Kenney will play in the
auditorium of'f V. E. Madill:
Secondary School:.
• Vocalist with the ;orchestra 'is,
Mart Kenney's:. ifeR.better known,
to everyone beyond the age .of a
Beatles fan, .as Norma Locke;. '
Details.of Mart Kenney's
appearance can be found in.,
advertisements, elsewhere in this
,issue.
To those .who remember the.
Mart Kenney orchestra .and to
those who are not quite so familiar'
•with it this article which appear-
ed in the. Toronto Star Weekly in.
.December 1968, may be of inter-
est.,
MISSING• PERSONS - WHATEVER
BECAME OF MART •KENNEY
Back in the, Big Band eta of the,'
. 'Thirties, when Benny Goodman',' .
Glen Miller; and .Guy Lombardo'
were the, slick -haired' darlings.of.
". their day:, .the fledgling Canadian
'Radio •Comrriissibn. (sire of•CBC)
hired a 24 year-old Toronto -born:
bandleader.to introduce popular
music. on (horrors!) Sunday'nights..
He was told `• to keep. it "subdued'.:
for.the•Sabbath:audience,.; But.the
`. show., Sweet And Low , caught on•
/from coast to 'coast - and Mart
'Kenney..and •his (10),Western•
Gentlemen became Canada's ..
biggest •Big Band . '
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, From that first broadcast in
1934 from Waterton Park, Alta,,
until the CBC .special in 1954
celebrating the band's twentieth
year .on the national network,
Kenney had hosted three other •
• CDC shows, `played every top ball.-
,room from„Vancouver to Banff to
Toronto, and his theme song, 'be
West ; .A Nest., And, You was •know_n,
to every Canadian with a radio
set: During the••Second World
144 he and hit band' entertained--:-
troops . from • coast to' coast , In
1949 he opened Mart Kenney's
Ranch in Woodbridge, Ont, , near
Toronto, ,which drew 709. dancers
:each night to his last, and 'largest
network show from' the outdoor •
,Starlit Co•rral..•. •
Today,. at 58, he's still back at
the, ranch with,his lovely wife,
Norma Locke whom he hired as
'a' singer in 1944 and married eight
years later. He.aadded an indoor
Stampede Room , which holds an
. additional 700' winter dancers,
and started catering to private
clubs; church groups•and wedding '..
'parties "because the "idea of
public dancing: no longer appeals
to the crowds we play, for.”
•Betweeik arinua1 tours of .western
Canada' (where ,Mart' Keeps •bands
rehearsed year round), both
Kenneys keep ultra -active 'in
Ontario. `••He sought the Liberal
nomination last year in North
.'Yor1i, and iNornia,besides singing
TV commercials, is president of •
the Canadian Cancer Society for '
the' Central Counties. District :i
.busier," says Kenney,. •,
•"than we've ever been before..
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