Denny Pezzin

Artist: Denny Pezzin

LP: 7" single
Song: "Up-and-Comer"
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Here's something I listen to whenever I feel like I'm dropping behind in this cockamamy rat-race called life on planet Earth. and here are the sweet, sad notes from the back of the single:

Someday I hope to be a "somebody" in the recording industry. Below
are listed all of the people who believed in me when I was a "nobody."
Great big hugs to all of you for helping me get my very first
record produced. --Denny

BOB & DIANE ALBANO • CHRIS ALEXANDER • BOB & NORMA ARMSTRONG •
JOHN & JUNE ATKIN • WERNER & FRIEDA BATZLER • CHUCK, JOAN & TROY
BENSINGER • DICK & MAE BIGGINS • DON & DOTTIE BLAYDES • GINGER &
JOHN BOHLAND • EUNICE BOWEN • DON BRACKENBURY • JEFF BREWNER •
JIM & DIANA BURNHAM • JACK & KATHI CAMPBELL • DAVID & JILL
CARMICHAEL • DENNY & DIANE CARROLL • DAVE, JOAN, DAN & DOUG
CASSAVAR • DIANE CHAMPION • CHARMAINE & MEL • GEORGE CLASBY &
JOAN SHIRK • CHAMOIS CONKLIN • BEN & SALLY COOLEY • BARRY &
DIANE DAGESTINO • SUSAN DANIELS • CHAN & DYANE DeKRAMER • JOE &
AURORE DEMERS • LOIS DORRANCE • CHERYL DUHME • CAROL ELSTON •
PAUL & SUSIE FARKAS • JERRY & JUDITH FILLMAN • BARBARA FINEBERG •
JAMES & GLORIA FOHRMAN • NEATSA FOSTER • DONNA GARSOMBKE •
SABRINA GAUTREAU • LINDA HACKETT • BARBARA HAINES • SCOTT,
NANCY & SHAWNNA HARRINGTON • BRUCE & JANET HEATHCOTE•
TOBY & SHER HECKER • DONNA & RAMSEY HEDRICK • BOB & ROBIN
HEIL • BILL & JUDITH HUNT • JACK & HELEN JENKS • JERRY & YVONNE •
CATHY KEATON • JOE & ELSA KINDER • DEBORAH KUTTRUFF • SUSAN
LANGLEY • JERRY & JEANNINE LEAPER • JERI LENNON • TERESA LLOYD •
JOHN & NANCY LONGMORE • LOU & YVONNE LONNI • SAM MAIMONE •
MARY MARCUS • JOE MAZZEO • PETE & BONNIE McRAE • ED & MARY
MILLER • KARLEEN MONROE • JANE MORRIS • DON MORRISON • TOM &
SUE MULLIGAN • MICHAEL & RHONDA NORTH • ANITA PAIGE • HAROLD &
VICKI PARKER • LORETTA PEZZIN • MOM & DAD PEZZIN • DON & NANCY
RIDDLE • MIKE & MARY JANE RODGERS • KATHY ROSHONG • PATTY
SANDERS • ED SATHER & ROSE MARIE TEEN • VALLERIE SCHOFIELD •
LARRY SKELDON & SHARON HAHN • EDDIE & OLLIE SKELDON • BOB & NANCY
STEARNS • BOB, SCOTT, TIM, STEVE, KEVIN & RODNEY STEARNS •
MOM STEARNS • GRANDMA & JO TALLUTO • JIM & SHARON TALLUTO •
JULIE TALLUTO • CHRIS TANNOUS • MERRY TRAMMELL • TURTLE ROCK
FRIENDS • BILL & BESS WAGANFEALD • BOB WAGANFEALD • MORTON &
MARLENE WENDER • TERRY WELCH FAMILY • FORD WHEATLEY, IV •
DALE & ELLY WINTERQUIST • LOU ZAVAC • CAROLYN ZIMMER

The good news is that Denny Pezzin is still "somebody," as I found this listing from the October 24, 2007 edition of the Orange County Register's Night-life Calendar:

SANTA ANA

Embassy Suites Capistrano Lounge, 1325 E. Dyer Ro. Denny Pezzin (lounge, dancing), 8:30 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 714-241-3800.

I also found a recent-looking YouTube clip of Denny Pezzin performing [Lady], perhaps recorded at the Santa Ana Embassy Suites Capistrano Lounge! and I just found the [Denny Pezzin Official Website], where you can read Pezzin's bio, see lots of photos and even send him an email. If you're reading this blog entry and you happen to be Carolyn Zimmer, Chamois Conklin, a Turtle Rock Friend or one of the Stearns boys (or anyone else included in Denny's exhaustive list above), please send an email with any amusing, enlightening or hopeful Denny Pezzin anecdotes you'd like to share. And if you happen to be Denny Pezzin, please write to say hello.

UPDATE: well I just heard back from Denny Pezzin (I sent an email to tell him I found his record and to see how he's been doing). Sadly, after 16 years of performing at the Embassy Suites Capistrano Lounge, Denny will be hitting the pavement in three weeks because the hotel is getting rid of entertainment. Things are tough all over, even in Orange County, CA. Still, if the lyrics to "Up-and-Comer" are any indication, I'm sure Denny Pezzin will land on his feet and be walking tall again real soon.