Red Ingle

Red Ingle
Red Ingle performing his 1947 hit, "Tim-Tay-Shun" in 1960 on Startime.
Background information
Birth name	Ernest Jansen Ingle
Also known as	"Red" Ingle
Born	(1906-11-07)7 November 1906 Toledo, Ohio
Died	7 September 1965(1965-09-07) (aged 58) Santa Barbara, California
Genres	Comedy
Occupation(s)	singer musician songwriter
Instruments	violin saxophone
Years active	1921–1960's
Associated acts	Red Ingle and his Natural Seven Ted Weems Spike Jones & His City Slickers

Ernest Jansen "Red" Ingle (7 November 1906 – 7 September 1965) was an American musician, singer and songwriter, arranger, cartoonist and caricaturist. He is best known for his comedy records with Spike Jones and his own Natural Seven sides for Capitol.

Ingle was born in Toledo, Ohio on 7 November 1906. He was taught basic violin from age five by Fritz Kreisler, a family friend. However at 13, he took up the saxophone, and that instrument later became his main instrument. Ingle received a music scholarship and studied at the Toledo American College of Music, playing classical music on a concert level. Ingle was also influenced by the country fiddlers he had heard; he was able to play their songs in their style as well as the classics in a traditional pose. At 15 he was playing professionally with Al Amato, and by his late teens, Ingle was touring steadily with the Jean Goldkette Orchestra, along with future jazz legends Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer. A graduate of Toledo's Scott High School, at one time he intended to become a teacher. Ingle left the College of Music in 1926 to become a full-time musician when he married Edwina Alice Smith. He joined Ted Weems' Orchestra in 1931, after briefly being a bandleader himself, and working under Maurice Sherman. His work with Weems was such a success that they worked together into the 1940s. Singer Perry Como later called Ingle 'one of the most talented men I've ever met.'

A pilot since 1924, Ingle wrote the Army Air Forces "I've Got Wings" manual as part of his wartime work at the Civil Aeronautics Administration. A talented leather carver whose saddles were in demand by celebrities, he also taught the skill in Veterans' hospitals during this time. One of Ingle's carved saddles was on exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition World's fair in San Francisco in 1939: a saddle carved with images illustrating the history of the state of California.