Starting out as a song-and-dance man in the last years of vaudeville, Rudy Toombs was a prolific composer and lyricist of doo-wop and rhythm and blues standards during the '50's and '60s; his widow estimated that he either composed the music or wrote the lyrics for over five hundred songs. He hit his stride as a writer and arranger for Ahmet Ertegun's Atlantic Records. Among his best-known songs are "One Mint Julep" (sung by The Clovers, went to Number 2 on the charts in 1951), "5-10-15 Hours" (...
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