Biyografi
Author and lyricist ("Gone Fishin'", "Love Letters in the Sand"), educated at Columbia University and the brother of Charles F. Kenny. During World War I, he served in the US Navy, then joined the US MS. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Bayonne, New Jersey, Boston and New York, and was a radio editor and columnist for the New York Mirror between 1930 and 1963, and produced an early radio amateur show. Joining ASCAP in 1932, his chief musical collaborator was his brother Charles. His other popular-song compositions include "Nobody Knows the Power of Prayer", "Paradise Valley", "Make Believe Island", "Laughing at Life", "Every Minute of the Hour", "There's a Goldmine in the Sky", "Little Old Cathedral in the Pines", "It's a Lonely Trail When You're Traveling All Alone", "Running Through My Mind", "Leanin' on the Old Top Rail", "Beyond the Purple Hills", "Carelessly", "Just a Letter From Home", "Little Skipper", "I Met God on the Highway", "I Heard a Voice from the Infinite Sky", and "Violins Were Playing".
