As I was making coffee this morning 
I thought of "Java Jive" and remembered a recent article in one of our local papers.
This music star lived quietly in B.C. for years. His songs live on in a popular video game
The Ink Spots singer Bill Kenny spent much of his later life in Vancouver
The Ink Spots' Bill Kenny, seen here with wife Audrey McBurney, can be heard in the Fallout video game franchise and TV series. (Getty Images/Amazon Prime)
I thought of "Java Jive" and remembered a recent article in one of our local papers.This music star lived quietly in B.C. for years. His songs live on in a popular video game
The Ink Spots singer Bill Kenny spent much of his later life in Vancouver
The Ink Spots' Bill Kenny, seen here with wife Audrey McBurney, can be heard in the Fallout video game franchise and TV series. (Getty Images/Amazon Prime)
Gordon Long remembers his Uncle Bill as a gracious man who loved to paint, play golf and joke around.
His uncle, Bill Kenny, was also a music star who sold millions of records prior to settling in Vancouver, but Long says that never seemed to come up.
"He was our Uncle Bill and the show business part, we never really got into at all," Long said from his home in Maple Ridge, B.C.
Kenny was a member of the Ink Spots, a Black vocal group that recorded several smash hits in the U.S. between the late 1930s and early '50s, breaking down racial barriers along the way...
...Kenny was performing at Vancouver's Cave Supper Club in 1948 when he met Audrey McBurney. After marrying in 1949, the couple lived in the U.S. and spent time in Calgary before eventually settling in Vancouver in the '60s. Using Vancouver as a home base, Kenny continued to perform in Canada and abroad until his death in 1978..
His uncle, Bill Kenny, was also a music star who sold millions of records prior to settling in Vancouver, but Long says that never seemed to come up.
"He was our Uncle Bill and the show business part, we never really got into at all," Long said from his home in Maple Ridge, B.C.
Kenny was a member of the Ink Spots, a Black vocal group that recorded several smash hits in the U.S. between the late 1930s and early '50s, breaking down racial barriers along the way...
...Kenny was performing at Vancouver's Cave Supper Club in 1948 when he met Audrey McBurney. After marrying in 1949, the couple lived in the U.S. and spent time in Calgary before eventually settling in Vancouver in the '60s. Using Vancouver as a home base, Kenny continued to perform in Canada and abroad until his death in 1978..
But when I was (much) younger I used to collect 78's. Used to buy them from The Record Collector (??) in New York, who would mail out monthly lists. (I may be wrong but those may been printed on a Gestetner machine.) I had a Lenco variable-speed turntable and a Shure M44 cartridge with some specially-modified styli for unusual discs, like Edison "hill and dale", which were cut with vertically-modulated grooves, as I recall. 
But that was 40 years ago...I'm better now 
