{"id":665,"date":"2011-11-29T02:11:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T08:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=665"},"modified":"2019-12-03T19:47:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T01:47:50","slug":"tempo-king-and-his-kings-of-tempo-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Tempo King And His Kings of Tempo  1936"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BluebirdB6688.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-666\" title=\"Bluebird B-6688\" src=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BluebirdB6688.jpg\" alt=\"Bluebird B-6688\" width=\"379\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BluebirdB6688.jpg 379w, http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BluebirdB6688-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;An Apple A Day&#8221;<br \/>\nTempo King And His Kings Of Tempo<br \/>\nQueenie Ada Rubin, piano; Tempo King, vocal<br \/>\n1936 (Bluebird B-6688-B)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Tempo-King-And-His-Kings-Of-Tempo-An-Apple-A-Day.mp3\">Tempo King And His Kings Of Tempo &#8211; An Apple A Day]<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Something Has Happened To Me&#8221;<br \/>\nTempo King And His Kings of Tempo<br \/>\nQueenie Ada Rubin, piano; Tempo King, vocal<br \/>\n1936 (Bluebird B-6688-A)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Tempo-King-And-His-Kings-of-Tempo-Something-Has-Happened-To-Me.mp3\">Tempo King And His Kings of Tempo &#8211; Something Has Happened To Me]<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tempo King and His Kings of Tempo was a group clearly patterned after Fats Waller with Tempo King providing the vocals and Queenie Ada Rubin playing a convincing Waller-like stride piano.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Despite the fact that the group recorded a few dozen sides for Bluebird and Vocalion in 1936 and 1937\u00a0 very little biographical information about either artist seems to have survived.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I did manage to find online through a Google book search that Tempo King was born in 1915,\u00a0 made his reputation while in Florida and died while rehearsing a new band in New York City in 1939 of &#8220;intestinal complications.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The only information that I was able to find about Queenie Ada Rubin was that she was based out of New York and was active in the swing era Fifty-second Street jazz clubs.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An Apple A Day&#8221; 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