Tommy Bruce (16 July 1937 – 10 July 2006) was an English rock and roll singer who had most of his success in the early 1960s. His cover version of "Ain't Misbehavin'" was a Top Ten hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1960.
Life and career
He was born Thomas Charles Bruce, in Stepney, London. Both his parents died when he was a child and he grew up in an orphanage, later working as a van driver in Covent Garden Market before undertaking National Service in Belgium.
Returning to London in 1959, and working again as a market porter, he became a friend of his neighbour, songwriter Barry Mason. Mason suggested he record a version of the song "Ain't Misbehavin'", written by Fats Waller, in a style similar to "Chantilly Lace", a recent hit single by the Big Bopper. Produced by Norrie Paramor and released on Columbia Records, Bruce's recording rose to number 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1960. He had no musical training, and described his own "sandpaper and gravel" singing voice with a strong London accent as "diabolical".
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Podcasts:
Tommy Bruce
ALBUMS
- That's Rock 'n' Roll released: 2002
That's Rock 'n' Roll
Released 2002- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Got the Water Boilin'
- Broken Doll
- I'm on Fire
- My Little Girl
- You Make Love So Well
- I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby
- Love Honour and Oh Baby
- Shakin' All Over
- Babette
- Honey Girl You're Lonely
- It's You
- Buttons and Bows
- London Boys
- Let's Do It Let's Fall in Love
- Two Left Feet
- Lavender Blue
- Let It Be Me
- No More
- Over Suzanne
- It's Drivin' Me Wild
- Boom Boom
- Can Your Monkey Do the Dog
- Monster Gonzales
- Where the Colour of the Soil Is Different
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by Tommy Bruce
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by Tommy Bruce
Ain't Misbehavin'
by: Tommy BruceNo one to talk with
All by myself
No one to walk with
But I'm happy on the shelf
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you
I know for certain
The one I love
I'm through with flirtin'
It's just you I'm thinkin' of
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you
Like Jack Horner
In the corner
Don't go nowhere
What do I care?
Your kisses are worth waitin' for
Believe me
I don't stay out late
Don't care to go
I'm home about eight
Just me and my radio
Ain't misbehavin'