Red Ingle: "Kringelein"

[Maxwell]

I subscribe to an email list the "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List." One of the regular participants on the list is Don Ingle, son of Red Ingle, who played saxophone in Ted Weems' band for years.

Don happened to send me an email earlier today answering a question I had about the writer of a particular song, and I mentioned that I was reading volume 1 of "39 Forever," and that I was thinking about him because I was going over the casts of the Canada Dry shows last week and saw Red's name a number of times, mostly as "Kringelein."

Don wrote back saying he was aware of that role and that Red also had speaking parts on Fibber McGee and Molly when the show was based in Chicago and Weems was their band leader.

After leaving Weems, Ingle joined Spike Jones and His City Slickers. Probably his most famous record for them was Chloe. After leaving Jones, Ingle made a series of satirical "hillbilly" records, the most famous of which was "Tim-Tayshun" sung by Cinderella G. Stump (aka Jo Stafford) and "Cigareets, Whiskey, and Wild Wild Women" (Red taking the vocal). Red can be heard at the start of the former saying, "Rosin on the bow and here we go."

Don mentioned in his email that Red only lived to be 59 years old. This November will mark his centennial.

I let Don know about the crispy.com web site that contains Cananda Dry programs from January 1933 in which Mary Livingstone mentions Red (as one of the band members she'll continue to go out with) in one and in which "Kringelein" has a couple of lines in the other. I also let him know about this site.

[LLeff]

I subscribe to an email list the "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List." One of the regular participants on the list is Don Ingle, son of Red Ingle, who played saxophone in Ted Weems' band for years.

Hey Maxwell...tell Don I've had an autographed photo of him playing the trumpet hanging in my basement for years. I picked it up at a Grand Rapids-area estate sale of a major jazz 78 collector. He and I have known a lot of the same people in the Western Michigan vintage jazz circles.

[Maxwell]

I'll do that. Don is still living in western Michigan to the best of my knowledge.