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The November 19 Cleveland Call And Post said: "Down at the Cedar Inn, the Four Shades Of Rhythm rolled 'em back at a full house party. This once again hints that they started as the Rio Grande Rhythm Makers. It named them and confirmed that they'd first come to prominence at the Rio Grande Casino (mistakenly called the "Rio Grande Cafe" in the blurb). The OctoCleveland Call And Post had an article titled "4 Shades Of Rhythm Make Cedar Inn 'Cats' Forget Basie". If you haven't heard them, you missed future star entertainers. The Shades are Macon "Dog House" Sims on the bass fiddle Oscar "Bing" Lindsay, a vocalist who knows where to lay the notes Father London on the piano and Willie Lewis who is the sensation with his electric guitar. The October 5 Cleveland Call And Post named them: Could this have been the original name of the group? Unfortunately, there's no one left to ask. I can only find two ads for the Rio Grande Casino, both from June 1940 and both advertising the Rio Grande Rhythm Makers. Their first documented appearance was at Cleveland's Cedar Inn, beginning September 29, 1940, although ads said that they'd formerly been at Dement Dawson's Rio Grande Casino. The original members, all neighborhood friends in their twenties, were: Willie "Electric Guitar" Lewis (guitar and group leader), Oscar "Bing" Lindsay (baritone vocalist and cocktail drums), Sim "Father" London (piano), and Macon "Doghouse" Sims (bassist a full-sized bass was nicknamed a "doghouse"). They played Pop, standards, show tunes, and jazz around Cleveland and environs, making their reputation, but there's nothing written about them prior to 1940. According to an article in the AugCleveland Call And Post, Willie Lewis organized the group in the Central Area of pre-World War 2 Cleveland in 1938 (but see below), when he returned to Cleveland after a tour with bandleader Zack White.
The beginnings of the 4 Shades are shrouded in the mists of the dim past. Possibly the first, however, was the 4 Shades of Rhythm. An explosion in the 50s gave us the Coronets, the Hornets, the Lyrics, the 5 Quails, Luther Bond & the Emeralds, the Metrotones, the El Pollos, the Shufflers, the Hepsters, and the Spartans. Marv Goldberg's R&B Notebooks - 4 SHADES OF RHYTHMĬleveland, Ohio was a rich source of R&B groups.
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