Biography
Penny was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He died in 1992 of heart failure. He was the father of actress Sydney Penny and producer Greg Penny. Country music historian Rich Kienzle began researching and writing about Penny's career in the late 1970's and devoted an entire chapter to him in his 2003 book "Southwest Shuffle."
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