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About Ruben (Rube) Bloom
Reuben Bloom (April 24, 1902 – March 30, 1976) was a multi-talented Jewish-American songwriter, pianist, arranger, bandleader, recording artist, vocalist, and author. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Bloom
Rube Bloom was the third of five children born in New York City to Russian immigrants Abraham M. Bloom and Fannie J. Kaplan. His siblings included Sidney Joseph (9/4/1898 - listed as Joseph in the 1900 census), Helen Ann (3/1900 - listed as Annie in the 1900 census), Harry (c.1905) and Milton (1906). Abraham came to the United States in 1888, followed by Fannie in 1895, and they were married on November 17, 1897. He was listed as a painter in a factory in the 1900 and 1910 Federal enumerations. that futuristic rag coverThere has been some confusion over Rube's true birth name. While sometimes cited as Rueben, it is more consistently spelled Rubin or Ruben in early public records, not an uncommon spelling among Russian Jews. Source: http://ragpiano.com/comps/rbloom.shtml
RUBE BLOOM DIES; COMPOSER WAS 73 Rube Bloom, the composer whose hits over nearly half a century included “Give Me the Simple Life,” “Penthouse Serenade” and “Don't Worry ‘Bout Me,” died last evening at his home in the Consulate Hotel, 224 West 49th Street. He was 73 years old.
Mr. Bloom, a self‐taught pianist, began his career with a flourish in December 1928, when the Victor Talking Machine Company gave him prize of $5,000 for a jazz composition, “Song of the Bayou.”
Over the years he had made recordings with Bix Beider becke, Miff Mole, Frank Trumbauer, the Dorsey Brothers, Red Nichols, Ethel Waters and Noble Sissle, among others, and had conducted his own combo, Rube Bloom and His Bayou Boys, in making records and on the radio.
Wrote for Revues
He wrote music for revues at the Cotton Club and was one of several composers contributing to the score of Lew Leslie's “Blackbirds of 1939,” a Negro musical at the Hudson Theater.
Mr. Bloom also wrote the score for a film, “Wake Up and Dream,” and toured Army installations in Europe with a United Service Organizations group in the mid‐1950's.
Continue reading the main story Among his collaborators were Johnny Mercer, Harry Ruby, Ted Koehler, Sammy Gallop, Harry Woods and Mitchell Parrish.
His other songs and instrumentals included “Truckin',”, “Out in the Cold Again,” “Fools Rush In,” “Day In‐Day Out,” “Take Me,” “Big Man From the South,” “Maybe You'll Be There” and “Stay on the Right Side, Sister.”
Other Songs
Others were “Here's to My Lady,” “I Can't Face the Music,” “Good for Nothin’ Joe,” “Suite of Moods,” “Soliloquy,” “Spring Fever,” “Sapphire,” “Serenata,” “Silhouette, “On the Green,” “Got No Time,” “Love Is a Merry‐Go‐Round.” “Savage in My Soul” and “I Wish I Could Tell You.”
In a 1928 interview Mr. Bloom predicted that a distinctive national school of music was being born in this country and asserted that the United States would some day be “the musical center of the world.”
“In the years to come there will arise a distinctive American music,” he said. “Now it is in the embryonic stage. Music in the truly American idiom is ‘blues,’ which, of course, is Negroid in origin. Negro spirituals and ‘blues’ are practically all our worthwhile folk music.
Forecast on Music
“But I think of music that is American in the future without being Negroid, but individual, expressive and representative of this country as a unit.”
Mr. Bloom was born in New York. He never attended a school of music or had instruction in harmony, counterpoint, rhythm or musical theory, but nevertheless wrote extensively for the piano and, with the aid ‘of an arranger, for full orchestra.
His composing was done directly on the piano. He then memorized it and a helper wrote it down for him. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/31/archives/rube-bloom-dies-compose...
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Ruben (Rube) Bloom's Timeline
| 1902 |
April 24, 1902
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New York, New York, United States
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| 1976 |
March 30, 1976
Age 73
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United States
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