(1-3 of 3 song lyrics)Average rating for Jimmy Rushing songs is 7.73/10 [11 votes]. Selected popular Jimmy Rushing song of Thursday, December 26 2024 is "Mister Five By Five".
Top Jimmy Rushing Albums
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Cross Your Heart [2018]
Rushing Lullabies + Brubeck & Rushing [2014]
Sometimes I Think I Do (with Buddy Tate, Emmett Berry, Sammy Price & Count Basie and His Orchestra) [2014]
The Jazz Odyssey of James Rushing Esq. + Jimmy Rushing and the Smith Girls (Bonus Track Version) [2014]
Of All the Goods You've Done to Me (feat. Buddy Tate, Coleman Hawkins, Dicky Wells & Ray Bryant) [2012]
Jimmy Rushing Sings the Blues and All That Jazz [2011]
Listen to the Blues [2010]
Jimmy Rushing Showcase - EP [2010]
Mr. 5 X 5 [Digital 45] [2009]
The Scene (Live In New York) [2009]
The Scene (Live in New York) [feat. Al Cohn & Zoot Sims] [2009]
James Andrew (Jimmy) Rushing (August 26, 1901 - June 8, 1972) was an American blues shouter from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He joined Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1927, then joined Bennie Moten's band in 1929. He stayed with the successor Count Basie band when Moten died in 1935. When the Basie band broke up in 1950 he briefly retired, then formed his own group.His build earned him a nickname and a signature song, "Mr. Five by Five" ("he's five feet tall and he's five feet wide"). His best known recordings are probably those of "Going to Chicago" with Basie and "Harvard Blues" with the famous saxophone solo by Don Byas. George Frazier, author of "Harvard Blues", called Rush... read more