Tiny Kennedy

Tiny Kennedy was not diminutive, either in stature or vocal range. “Big and unwanted fat” was how Trumpet Information employer Lillian McMurry vividly defined him, and she ought to know: Trumpet documented the shouter in 1951 and once again in 1952. The vocalist, blessed Jesse Kennedy, Jr., acquired documented with the fantastic Kansas Town pianist Jay McShann for Capitol in 1949 ahead of becoming a member of Tiny Bradshaw’s jumping music group as you of its presented front men. Following a program with Elmore Wayne in 1951 didn’t bring about anything releasable, McMurry delivered Kennedy as much as Sam Phillips’s fledgling Memphis Documenting Service in Sept of 1952. Music artists on the program, which created the good “Strange Sort of Feelin’,” “Early within the Mornin’, Baby” (with overdubbed crowing by “Elmer, the Disk Jockey Rooster”), and “Blues Disease,” included guitarist Calvin Newborn and saxist Richard Sanders. Following a 1955 day for RCA’s Groove subsidiary, Kennedy vanished permanently through the R&B scene.