Eric Delaney

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

Life and work

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

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

In 1959 he reduced his orchestra to a six -piece band, and in the later Steve Gray and Jim Lawless played in this time Tony Fisher, Alan Skidmore, Kenny Salmon. As with many similar artists came Delaney's music with the advent of the Beatles out of fashion. Nevertheless, he remained active in the following years in the UK and has performed in most holiday resorts, such as the Pleasure Beach Blackpool. From 1986 he worked in the Spanish Benidorm, back around 2006 in England.

Delaney's life - with photographs and comments from fellow musicians such as Kenny Ball, Elkie Brooks, Terry Lightfoot Humphrey Lyttelton or - was shown in Eddie Sammons ' Biography The Magnificent Eric Delaney.

Besides the drums, in which he used two bass drums with Tom - toms, Delaney played numerous percussion instruments such as xylophone, glockenspiel, timpani, marching drum, tubular bells, various Chinese gongs and tam -tams, referring broom and whistles in his shows a.

His grandson Jake Delaney is also a drummer.

Disco Graphical 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 Organised (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)
July 15 Ambrose (bandleader) Snare drum
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