1. Ernest Jansen "Red" Ingle was an American musician, singer and songwriter, arranger, cartoonist and caricaturist.
18 Facts About Red Ingle
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Red Ingle is best known for his comedy records with Spike Jones and his own Natural Seven sides for Capitol.
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Red Ingle was taught basic violin from age five by Fritz Kreisler, a family friend.
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Red Ingle received a music scholarship and studied at the Toledo American College of Music, playing classical music on a concert level.
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Red Ingle was influenced by the country fiddlers he had heard; he was able to play their songs in their style as well as the classics in a traditional pose.
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At 15 he was playing professionally with Al Amato, and by his late teens, Red Ingle was touring steadily with the Jean Goldkette Orchestra, along with future jazz legends Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer.
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Red Ingle left the College of Music in 1926 to become a full-time musician when he married Edwina Alice Smith.
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Red Ingle joined Ted Weems' Orchestra in 1931, after briefly being a bandleader himself, and working under Maurice Sherman.
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One of Red Ingle's carved saddles was on exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition World's fair in San Francisco in 1939: a saddle carved with images illustrating the history of the state of California.
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Red Ingle left Jones and the City Slickers in November 1946 after a salary dispute.
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Red Ingle drifted through Radio and Hollywood, even working in light opera, until he made "Tim-Tayshun", a spoof recording of the then-popular Perry Como hit "Temptation", with Jo Stafford for Capitol Records in 1947.
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Red Ingle joined Jo Stafford on her 1949 tour of the Midwest.
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The band recorded short films of their numbers, before disbanding in 1952; by 1956, Red Ingle had formed the band .
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Red Ingle reunited with Jo Stafford in 1960 for a performance of "Tim-Tayshun" on Startime; by this time he had lost a great deal of weight and was barely recognizable as the former leader of the Natural Seven.
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Red Ingle had a reunion with Perry Como; band leader Ted Weems and former fellow band members Ingle, Elmo Tanner, Parker Gibbs and "Country" Washburn appeared as guests on Como's Kraft Music Hall on October 18,1961.
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Excerpts from Persuasive Concussion, featuring Red Ingle, were issued on LP in the 1970s.
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Red Ingle said he had been trying to retire from the music business since 1942; he signed up with Spike Jones a year later, and that his leaving the band in 1946 was another try at retirement.
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Red Ingle died September 6,1965, in Santa Barbara, California and was buried in Ovid, Michigan.