Del Courtney

b. 21 Sept 1910, Oakland, California, USA, d. 11 Feb 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Beneath the suitable heading ‘The Aged Smoothie’, Del Courtney’s dance music group were a favorite attraction at resorts throughout America in the pre and post-war period. Produced in 1933 in California, their initial booking came on the Claremont Resort in Berkeley. Courtney acquired formerly performed alongside Al Hill, and utilized three different feminine vocalists; Dotty Dotson, Judith Blair and Gil Vester, to augment his highly intimate compositions. Their professionalism and reliability was compensated with displays at premier resorts like the Roosevelt (New Orleans), the brand new Yorker and Ambassador (NY), the Edgewater and Stevens (Chicago), the Adolphus (Dallas) as well as the Royal Hawaiian (Honolulu). Courtney came back to his indigenous California in the 50s, and his music group were featured using one of the 1st telecasts for The Sylvania Program. Made alert to the new options provided by the moderate, he subsequently quit bandleading to have a tv dealership in the Bay part of San Francisco. He’d also function in radio, learning to be a well-known disc jockey within the KSFO radio train station. In his free time a fresh dance music group was formed on the semi-professional basis, with regional displays and a time of year in Lake Tahoe. When he remaining KSFO after many years he continued to immediate the music group for the Oakland Raiders soccer group. He was also a normal on The Ruler Family TV PROGRAM in the 60s. In the brand new millennium Courtney was discovered performing along with his music group in the Royal Hawaiian Resort. He retired after his 94th birthday.