Al Rinker (December 20, 1907 – June 11, 1982) was an American musician who began his career as a teen performing with Bing Crosby in the early 1920s in Spokane, Washington. In 1925 the pair moved to Los Angeles, eventually forming the Rhythm Boys trio with Harry Barris.
Their father, Charles, played fiddle and called square dances, and their mother played piano every evening after supper. His younger brother Charles Rinker became a lyricist who worked frequently with composer Gene de Paul.[3] Rinker married Elizabeth Neuberger on October 25, 1938.[4]
Their older sister Mildred, under her married name of Mildred Bailey, had embarked on a musical career in Los Angeles before Rinker and Crosby became known. She became a well-known jazz singer after the Rhythm Boys arranged for Paul Whiteman to "discover" her singing at a party; he hired her to sing with his band. For a time she was known as "Mrs. Swing."[1]
The Rhythm Boys were filmed for the movie King of Jazz (1930) singing "Mississippi Mud", "So the Bluebirds and the Blackbirds Got Together", "A Bench in the Park", and "Happy Feet". According to a filmed interview of Rinker, Crosby performed the first two weeks on his first film while on daytime work release from jail after crashing his car into a telephone pole while driving drunk. After the Rhythm Boys broke up, they reunited once on the Paul Whiteman Presents radio broadcast on July 4, 1943.
In 1952, a song for which Rinker wrote the music with lyrics by Floyd Huddleston, "You Can't Do Wrong Doin' Right", appeared in the films Push-Button Kitty and The Affairs of Dobie Gillis. "You Can't Do Wrong Doin' Right" also previously appeared in the 1950 film Duchess Of Idaho. He also wrote the song "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat" also with Floyd Huddleston for the Disney animated children's movie The Aristocats (1970).
Referencesedit
^ abMiller, John. "Idaho tribe: 'Mrs. Swing' was Indian.", The Wenatchee World, March 16, 2012; retrieved March 27, 2012
^Giddins, Gary (29 November 2009). Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903 - 1940. Little, Brown. pp. n.p. ISBN978-0-316-09156-5. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
^"Death Takes Mildred Bailey, Blues Singer" July 6, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Seattle Daily Times, December 13, 1951.
^Staff (October 26, 1938). "Al Rinker Is Married". Motion Picture Daily. New York. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
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