Legacy
His combo spawned two successful offshoots: Julius Wechter (of Baja Marimba Band fame) and exotica vibist Arthur Lyman.
Denny's Firecracker is well known in Japan as the number which inspired Haruomi Hosono to establish Yellow Magic Orchestra. According to Hosono, one day in 1978, after a recording, he invited Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi to his house and showed a memo which said "Cover and arrange Martin Denny's Firecracker into a chunky-electric disco, featuring synthesizers, to sell out four million copies around the world".
In 1983, the cassette-based 'audio magazine' 23 Drifts To Guestling was released by David Tibet. Collated from the archives of Throbbing Gristle, track 20 'E plays his favourite track (mamba by m denny)' features an introduction from Genesis P-Orridge, where he explains the influence it had on him and his subsequently work in TG. It seems this theme continued through the early incarnation of PTV.
In 1988, 808 State,a pioneering Acid House electronic group from Manchester, England cited Denny as an influence on their hit song "Pacific State". In November 2008, Graham Massey from 808 State held a tribute night to Martin Denny amongst other acts in London under the banner of 'Manchester Mondo'.
Many of Denny's recordings were reissued on the Ultra-Lounge series of CDs.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)