Birth name Delmar Smith Porter Name Del Porter Years active 1924–1977 | Instruments Vocals Genres Big band jazz Role Vocalist | |
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Born April 13, 1902
Newberg, Oregon, United States ( 1902-04-13 ) Occupation(s) Band leader, jazz musician Died October 4, 1977, Los Angeles, California, United States Albums Hiccups Will Live Forever, Thank You, Music Lovers! Music group Spike Jones and His City Slickers Similar People Spike Jones, Doodles Weaver, Freddy Morgan, Dick Morgan, Mickey Katz | ||
1932 Roger Wolfe Kahn - Another Night Alone (Del Porter, vocal)
Del Porter (né Delmar Smith Porter; 13 April 1902 in Newberg, Oregon – 4 October 1977 in Los Angeles) was an American jazz vocalist, saxophonist, and clarinetists who, in the 1930s, performed on Broadway, toured with Glenn Miller, and recorded with Bing Crosby, Dick Powell, and Red Nichols, and in the 1940s, led his own big band.
Porter was a singer with the Foursome, which came to prominence in the 1930 Broadway hit show, Girl Crazy. Porter, the best known member of the quartet, co-founded City Slickers with Spike Jones about the time his group split up. With the Foursome's arranger and Porter's lifelong friend, Raymond M. Johnson, Porter reorganized the quartet around 1946 as the Sweet Potato Tooters.
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