Jimmy Rushing. Recording at Columbia Studio 30th Street, New York, 1960

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Jimmy Rushing recording at Columbia Studio 30th Street, New York, 1960

Jimmy Rushing (by name James Andrew Rushing) was an American singer and pianist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie’s Orchestra from 1935 to 1948. Rushing was known as “ Mr. Five by Five” and was the subject of an eponymous 1942 popular song that was a hit for Harry James and others.

b. August 26, 1901 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
d. June 8, 1972 New York.

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