Effective period / Period of releases: 1963

Lyricist and Producer. Died February 4, 1988 at the age of 54. Jennings was a graduate of Vanderbilt University in Nashville. His songs were recorded by such singers as Glen Campbell and Greta Keller. Jennings was the lyricist, composer and producer of ''Riverwind,'' a sentimental musical set in a rural Indiana hotel. He took five years to write it and two more to raise the show's $20,000 budget before opening Off Broadway at the Actors' Playhouse on Dec. 12, 1962. He also performed his work in nightclubs and was working on another musical, ''Old Money,'' at the time of his death.