Del Porter

Del Porter
Birth name	Delmar Smith Porter
Born	April 13, 1902 Newberg, Oregon, United States
Died	October 4, 1977 (aged 75) Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres	Big band jazz
Occupation(s)	Band leader, jazz musician[1]
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1924–1977

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.^[2]

References

1. Biography, Del Porter, by Jordan R. Young, AllMusic
2. Spike Jones off the record: The Man Who Murdered Music, by Jordan R. Young (born 1950), Beverly Hills: Past Times Publishing Co. (1994) OCLC 28799311