Hunt Co., TX - Lynn Harrell - Dallas Country Club ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Sarah Swindell USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Lynn Harrell Is Playing Piano For Dallas Country Club Lynn Harrell, Dallas, a native of Celeste and a pianist resuming his playing career after a period of forty-two years, is heard in a Dallas county club nightly playing cocktail music. Harrell, brother to the late Mack Harrell of Metropolitan Opera fame, played the Jimmy Joy Band until 1935 when he went into the business world as a manufacturers representative. Harrell worked with the Jimmy Joy Band beginning on the Texas University campus and on to noted engagements in Texas cities during collegiate years. By 1923, the band and Harrell were on national tours, later playing long engagements in San Antonio. Harrell, throughout the years away from active music participation, kept in touch by association with popular jazz organizations. Now he plays and calls it a "lark" with strong bass beat and interruptions of soft piano music with rousing blues numbers of the Golden Age of Jazz. Harrell, the son of pioneer parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Harrell, moved with his family from Celeste to Greenville at the age of fourteen and later graduated from Greenville High School. He learned piano by placing his fingers on the keys as player pianos rolled out tunes. He is known as "Sonny" by relatives here. His wife is the former Mary Harless, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Harless, former presiding elder of the Greenville District Methodist Churches. They live in Dallas. Cousins locally are Mrs. Rob Ferguson and Mrs. P. M. Kelly, of Greenville, and Mrs. R. C. Denny of Celeste. A niece is Mrs. Eben Carsey of Greenville. (June 30, 1967, The Celeste Courier)