Name Rudy Toombs | Role Songwriter | |
Died November 28, 1962, Harlem, New York City, New York, United States Similar People Amos Milburn, John Lee Hooker, The Clovers, Little Willie John, Ruth Brown | ||
Ruth Brown - Teardrops From My Eyes (1989)
Rudolph "Rudy" Toombs (1914 – November 28, 1962) was an American songwriter. He wrote "Teardrops from My Eyes", Ruth Brown's first number one R&B song, and other hit songs for her, including "5-10-15 Hours". He also wrote "One Mint Julep" for The Clovers.
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History
Toombs was born in Monroe, Louisiana. He began as a vaudeville-style song-and-dance man and later became a productive lyricist and composer of doo-wop songs and rhythm-and-blues standards in the 1950s and 1960s. Some of work was done at Atlantic Records, writing and arranging songs for Ahmet Ertegun. Toombs was murdered by robbers in the hallway of his apartment house in Harlem in 1962.
Ruth Brown 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.
Songs
Some of Toombs best known songs are listed below.
Artists
His songs (apart from those recordings listed above) have been sung by the following artists: