Rudolph Toombs
In the collection
3 records
Played with
Ray Charles
3 records together
Joe Morris
2 records together
Tiny Grimes
2 records together
Frank Culley
2 records together
Stick McGhee
2 records together
Ruth Brown
2 records together
Professor Longhair
2 records together
Harry Van Walls
2 records together
The Clovers
2 records together
The Cardinals
2 records together
Big Joe Turner
2 records together
Willis Jackson
2 records together
About
Rudolph Toombs, better known as Rudy Toombs, was an American songwriter, born c. 1914 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA. He was a prolific lyricist and composer of doo-wop songs and rhythm-and-blues standards in the 1950s and 1960s. He did some of his work writing and arranging songs for at in New York, NY. Unfortunately, Toombs was murdered by robbers in the hallway of his apartment house in Harlem Nov. 28, 1962.
credited Toombs as a major reason for her success. She describes him as joyful, exuberant man, so full of life that he passed that ebullience on to her. He taught her how to take a moody blues ballad and make it into a bouncy jump blues.
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