Al Rinker

Alton M. Rinker ( born December 20, 1907 in Tekoa, Washington, † June 11, 1982 in Burbank, California ) was initially an American jazz singer and songwriter who was known for his collaboration with Paul Whiteman, then a radio producer.

Life and work

Rinker began during his college days in 1925 as a partner of Bing Crosby in a band in Spokane, then to become self-employed as a duo. In 1926 she played a her first song I've Got the Girl with Don Clark's Orchestra. That same year, Whiteman took the two of them in Los Angeles under contract; 1927 still came the singer, songwriter and pianist Harry Barris. In this vocal trio The Rhythm Boys Rinker worked with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and worked in music films like Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931 ) and Two Plus Fours (1930 ) with, as well as in White 's film The King of Jazz ( 1930) with, in the they sang songs like Mississippi Mud. 1931, the Rhythm Boys were still working with Gus Arnheim. As Crosby began a solo career, the group came together again in 1943 for a radio appearance broke. Rinker made ​​between early career in radio. With Beatric Kay he produced for CBS from 1940 to 1944, the radio show The Gay Nineties Revue.

In 1952, Rinker with the song You Can not Do Wrong Doin 'Right, for whom he had written the lyrics, an appearance in the movie Push-Button Kitty and in the television series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. He also wrote the song Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat for the Disney animated film The Aristocats (1970).

Al Rinkers sister was the jazz singer Mildred Bailey, his younger brother Charles Rinker became known as the lyricist for Gene de Paul.