TVA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-10-01 published
VAUGHAN,
Denny, 1972 -- Died This Day
Saturday, October 1, 2005, Page S7
Musician and television star born in Toronto on December 20,
Educated in Toronto, he was a natural musician whose piano playing
led him to form his own dance bands in the 1930's and then join
the Canadian Army Show to entertain troops during the Second
World
War.
Serving under Captain Robert
FARNON, he became vocalist,
pianist and arranger for the Canadian Band of the Allied Expeditionary
Force. After the war he stayed on in Britain to work and met
and married Hélène DE
GRANDPREY.
Returned in 1950, he hosted
a nightly 15-minute music program for Players Cigarettes. By
the mid-1960s, Denny
VAUGHAN and his Orchestra was a regular
feature on CTV's Musical Showcase series, and
on TVA's Le
Grand
Prix Musicale. Soon after that, he moved to California to become
musical consultant for The Smothers Brothers Show and The Glen
Campbell Show. From time to time he returned home to make record
albums for the Canadian Talent Library. He died in Montreal.
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