Rube Bloom

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Reuben "Rube" Bloom (born April 24, 1902 in New York City , † March 30, 1976 ibid) was an American songwriter , composer, arranger , singer, jazz pianist and author. His best-known songs include Give Me the Simple Life, Fools Rush In and Who's Sorry Now?

Live and act

Bloom first worked as an accompanist in Vaudeville from 1919 and in the 1920s in the jazz bands of Sam Lanin (with whom the first recordings for Okeh Records were made in 1924 ), Bix Beiderbecke , Frank Trumbauer and Miff Mole ( Sioux City Six 1924 or as The Cotton Pickers ), Ray Miller Orchestra (who recorded Blooms Flock O'Blues ), Red Nichols (recorded as The Tennessee Tooters for Vocalion ) and Irving Kaufman .

During the 1920s, Bloom wrote a number of novelty piano solos and songs; In 1923 he wrote one of his most famous compositions, Who's Sorry Now? , which he had written with Bert Kalmar and Ted Snyder and was recorded in numerous cover versions , as early as 1923 by Ben Bernie , California Ramblers , Isham Jones , and later by Red Nichols , Billy Banks , Frankie Newton and the Casa Loma Orchestra . The version of the original Memphis Five hit # 8 on the US hit parades in July 1923; In 1940 Harry James was again represented in the charts with the title (# 18).

In 1926 he recorded the solo titles Soliloquy and Spring Fever for Harmony (Har 164-H) ; from 1925 he worked with the music publisher Joe Davis . In the second half of the 1920s he was the accompanist for vocalists such as Noble Sissle , Alma Henderson, Esther Walker, Jay C. Flippen , Peggy English, Evelyn Preer, Seger Ellis , Ruth Etting , Sammy Fain and Art Gillham. In 1926 he recorded under his own name for Brunswick Records ( Stampede / Back Beats ), in 1927 for Cameo, Columbia and Okeh ( I Can't Give You Anything but Love ). In 1927 he was working as an arranger for Duke Ellington when the latter recorded his composition Soliloquy (Brunswick 3526); In 1929 he wrote music for the film musical The Show of Shows . During this time he also worked with Joe Venutis Blue Four, Eddie Lang ( Mine, All Mine , 1927), Ben Selvin , Annette Hanshaw , Jack Purvis and Arthur Schutt . In 1930 he recorded with under the name Rube Bloom and His Bayou Boys for Columbia Records ; The participating musicians in this all-stars band were Manny Klein (tp), Tommy Dorsey (tb), Benny Goodman (cl), Adrian Rollini (bassax), Stan King (dr) and the singer Roy Evans . In 1931 he accompanied Lee Morse and Ethel Waters . In December 1934 Bloom made his last recordings for Victor ( Penthouse Romance ). In the field of jazz he was involved in 212 recording sessions between 1924 and 1934.

In his later years, Bloom worked primarily as a songwriter and composer; In 1939 he wrote the song Day In, Day Out with Johnny Mercer , which u. a. by Bob Crosby , Billie Holiday , Benny Goodman, Jan Savitt and Art Tatum . Mercer processed Bloom's instrumental number Shangri-La in 1940 into the song Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) , which was one of the most popular ballads in 1940, in versions by Tony Martin , Glenn Miller (Bluebird, # 1) and Tommy Dorsey / Frank Sinatra (Victor; # 12) hit the US charts and was also recorded by Mildred Bailey , Brook Benton and Etta James .

Bloom also worked as a song composer with Mitchell Parish , Harry MacGregor Woods and Ted Koehler , with whom he sang the songs Out in the Cold Again (1934), Don't Worry 'Bout Me (1939), Stay On the Right Side Sister ( by Doris Day ) and Truckin ' , the latter a number one hit by Fats Waller in 1935 . With Harry Ruby he wrote Give Me the Simple Life (1945) for the film Wake Up and Dream , with which Benny Goodman came into the US charts and which was best known through Frank Sinatra . His song I Can't Face the Music was recorded by Ella Fitzgerald on her Verve album Rhythm is My Business (with Bill Doggett ) in 1962. His last song was Here's to My Lady (1952), which he wrote with Johnny Mercer. Bloom also published several piano textbooks from the 1930s, such as Magichord: Modern Piano Method or Modern Jazz Piano Course .

Bloom is buried in Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York . In 1982 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame .

Songs (selection)

  • Day In, Day Out (Johnny Mercer)
  • Don't Worry 'Bout Me (Ted Koehler)
  • Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) (Johnny Mercer)
  • Give Me the Simple Life ( Harry Ruby )
  • Good-for-Nothin 'Joe (Ted Koehler)
  • I Can't Face the Music (Ted Koehler)
  • Maybe You'll Be There ( Sammy Gallop )
  • Out in the cold again
  • II Were Sure of You
  • The Man from the South
  • Truckin '
  • What Goes Up, Must Come Down
  • Lonely Mannequin (1936, with Sammy Lerner)
  • Mysterious Moses
  • One finger Joe
  • The Man from the South
  • That Futuristic Rag
  • Song of the Bayou (1929)

literature

  • Jaques Cattell Press (Ed.): Who's who in American Music. Classical . 1st edition. RR Bowker, New York 1983, ISBN 0-8352-1725-6 .
  • Stanley Sadie, H. Wiley Hitchcock (Eds.): The New Grove Dictionary of American Music . Grove's Dictionaries of Music, New York, NY 1986, ISBN 0-943818-36-2 .
  • Barry Dean Kernfeld: The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz . Macmillan Press, London 1988, ISBN 0-333-39846-7 .
  • Colin Larkin : The Encyclopedia of Popular Music . 3. Edition. Macmillan, New York 1998, ISBN 0-333-74134-X .
  • Michael Cuscuna , Michel Ruppi: The Blue Note label. A discography . Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 2001, ISBN 0-313-31826-3 .

Discographic notes

  • Rube Bloom, The Mississippi Maulers, The Seven Hot Air Men: New York Jazz 1927-30. (VJM Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c William Emmett Studwell, Mark Baldin: The Big Band Reader: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras and Other Popular Ensembles p. 17.
  2. ^ Jean Pierre Lion: Bix: The Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend: Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke , 2005, p. 88.
  3. a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 25, 2014)
  4. ^ A b c Gerhard Klußmeier : Jazz in the Charts. Another view on jazz history. Liner notes and booklet for the 100 CD edition. Membrane International GmbH, ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4 .
  5. Bruce Bastin: The Melody Man: Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene , 2012.
  6. Ken Bloom: The American Songbook - The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs - 100 Years of American Popular Music - The Stories of the Creators and Performers . Black Dog & Leventhal, New York City 2005, ISBN 1-57912-448-8 , p. 270.
  7. ^ Marvin E. Paymer, Don E. Post: Sentimental Journey: Intimate Portraits of America's Great Popular Songs . 1999, ISBN 1-881907-09-0 , p. 398.
  8. discogs.com
  9. Official website of the Songwriters Hall of Fame ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.songwritershalloffame.org