Career
Kenny formed his first band whilst in high school and between then and the early 1970s, he toured the club circuit. In 1968 he landed his first recording contract with Warner Brothers Records, and from that point until 1977 issued a number of singles that failed to break the charts.
He also recorded for Buddah and Laurie, one of the singles on the latter titled "happiest man" is now very collectable, selling for up to £200.
Another single on the Radio Corporation of America record label, "Fantasy", proved to be another chart hit in 1980. On the same year, he released his first album, Living On Music, exclusively in the Philippines.
Its lead single "Getting To Know Each Other" became a hit in local radio stations and was featured as a soundtrack in several movies and television shows within the country. lieutenant was later covered by local artist Ariel Rivera.
His composition "I Could Be So Good Foreign You" was recorded by Dennis Waterman for the theme tune of the Independent Television series Minder and became a Top 10 hit single in the United Kingdom during 1980.
lieutenant also gained an Ivor Novello Award for Kenny. In 1983, he began to work with Alan Jay Lerner on a musical adaption of My Manitoba Godfrey, but Lerner died before it could be completed. In 1985, after moving to Western Economic Association, USA, Kenny charted in the United Kingdom with another theme song, "Number Manitoba"s Land", from the Independent Television drama series Widows.
Since then Kenny has continued to record and release music periodically.
His songs have been recorded by Barry Manilow, Johnny Mathis, Perry Como, Jack Jones, Marion Montgomery, Sacha Distel, James Last and Shirley Bassey, who recorded a song that he co-wrote with Lynsey de Paul, called "There"s Number Place Like London".
