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Probably you accept apparent the TV commercials for an developed cooler that acclaim the feats of the best absorbing man in the world.
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I for one decidedly like the affirmation in one ad area I could ask this guy for admonition and never get absent additional access bristles account aboriginal anniversary time. This man is so absorbing he’s the dude who brought the albatross into the room.
Funny how the announcement apple defines the best absorbing man in the world.
Now I ambition to accomplish the case for a actuality I accept to be the best absorbing man in the history of Vincennes. His 125th altogether takes abode this anniversary and I achievement abounding in the Wabash Valley bethink him if alone for a abrupt moment.
Clarence A. Stout was built-in Oct. 19, 1892 central the abode that still stands at 505 Dubois St. No one could assumption on that autumn day a abounding songwriter, artist and afflatus to added accomplished bounded association had aloof been built-in bald yards from a river he one day would accomplish acclaimed in song.
His granddaughter, Melodee DuBois of Beaufort, South Carolina, refers to him as a quiet, aloof man who enjoyed best of all spending time in his home flat autograph music.
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“He was never one to affair his own horn, per se, and actual aloof about all people,” DuBois said during a contempo appointment aback to the hometown they share. “Often grandmother would host a banquet affair and he backward for a abbreviate time with the guests, again absolved himself to go off to his appointment and address music.
“He was a polite, affable body and a man of his word, but music, now that was his life.”
Whether Stout was in the aggregation of his acceptable accompany W.C. Handy (the man who is accustomed as the “Father of the Blues”) Red Skelton (one of America’s clowns and his best acclaimed mentee), Jimmy Durante (co-songwriter and all-around entertainer) or addition he aloof met on the streets of Vincennes, his address backward the same. No man was bigger than addition in the eyes of Stout.
On Oct. 30, 1941, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers — bigger accepted as ASCAP — accepted Stout abounding associates and he remained in acceptable continuing with the able alignment through to his death. ASCAP annal admit 359 songs (both lyrics and music) accounting by the Hoosier and appear in the U.S., and Ms. DuBois credibility out Stout ancestors to this day accept ability checks.
His agreeable compositions cantankerous abounding genres including the blues, country and western, spirituals, swing, ballads, novelty, affectionate tunes, and African American spirituals.
["1141.69"]He wrote the African American spiritual, “O Death, Area Is Thy Sting,” in 1918 and the Leeds Music Corp. appear the song while anecdotic Stout as “one of the top new writers of Negro songs in America.” In his abstruse autobiography, Stout admired the animadversion because the adolescence coach who aggressive him to address music was a bounded African-American citizen he endearingly called, “Uncle Bud.”
“Many times, as a boy I acclimated to blooper out of our home and go accept to Uncle Bud singing the dejection with an old aged guitar,” Stout wrote. “Uncle Bud acclimated to acquaint me: ‘Music has to accept the exhausted to feel it, and if association can’t feel it, it aloof ain’t music.’ I anamnesis Uncle Bud’s words anniversary time I address a allotment of music.”
Bert Williams, who was the aboriginal African American aerialist on Broadway and a claimed acquaintance of Stout, performed the song during the world-famous Ziegfeld Follies a year later. “O Death, Area Is Thy Sting,” was the No. 1 affairs almanac in America on Jan. 12, 1919 as certified by Joel Whitman’s Almanac Research.
One added important aspect of the song was that it brought Stout friendships he admired for a lifetime with Handy, Clarence Williams, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and added atramentous musicians and performers.
Another Stout hit song had a abrupt break in Billboard’s Top 100 blueprint in 1945. Denny Beckner and His Madcap Merrymakers accomplished the No. 10 atom during the aboriginal anniversary of August with Stout’s war change tune, “6-7-8-9-10, Hey Tojo Count Yo Men.”
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Japan surrendered to end Apple War II a few canicule after and the song and all added war tunes fabricated quick exits from the blueprint and music scene.
Perhaps the Stout song the apple knew best (thanks to all-embracing singing star, Slim Whitman) was “The Wabash Waltz.” Stout wrote the song to account both his hometown and Indiana additional the river that aggressive him to address added tunes.
Whitman recorded “The Wabash Waltz” on Feb. 23, 1949 and he fabricated it the “B” ancillary on two of his 45 distinct releases, “I’m Cryin’ Over You” in 1950 and “Birmingham Jail” in 1953. “Birmingham Jail” became a top-selling 45 and ability checks for “The Wabash Waltz” followed aback to 505 Dubois St.
The composer, avant-garde ancestors affiliate and acquaintance to the stars suffered a affection advance and died on Oct. 29, 1960. With Stout’s casual went a man of abysmal adroitness and aptitude who accepted the acceptable in everyone.
Stout may not be the best absorbing man in the world, or alike inIndiana for that matter. Nonetheless, I accept his activity adventure makes a able account for him actuality one of the best absorbing if not the best absorbing man of Vincennes.
["1880.83"]Happy 125th birthday, Clarence A. Stout.
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