Remembering Jimmy Rushing on his birthday (August 26, 1901 – June 8, 1972). Known as "Mr. Five by Five" - "he's five feet tall and he's five feet wide." Rushing said that his first time singing in front of an audience was in 1924. He was playing piano at a club when the featured singer, Carlyn Williams, invited him to do a vocal. "I got out there and broke it up. I was a singer from then on," he said. Rushing was a powerful singer who had a range from baritone to tenor. He has sometimes been cla