Toni Aubin
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Maria Antoinette Rubio |
| Born | September 22, 1927 Antioch, California, U.S. |
| Died | February 10, 1990 (aged 62) San Joaquin, California |
| Genres | Vocal jazz, swing |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals |
| Years active | 1947–1950 |
| Labels | Black & White |
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Toni Aubin (née Maria Antoinette Rubio; 22 September 1927 – 10 February 1990) was an American jazz vocalist who sang with big bands in the 1940s.
Career[edit]
Aubin is most known as a featured singer with Earle Spencer and His Orchestra,[1] with whom she began performing in 1949. Before that, from about 1946 to about 1947, she toured with the Louis Ohls Orchestra[a] out of Arkadelphia.
In 1947, Aubin, while singing with the Louis Ohls Orchestra,[2] shared a featured billing with Art Pepper, who, at the time, was arranger and saxophonist with the orchestra.[2] Aubin had also sang with the Phil Carreon Big Band out of Los Angeles.
Pseudonym[edit]
Her stage name is that of the French composer Tony Aubin.
Family[edit]
Both of Aubin's parents – Mike Rubio (né Miguel Rubio Peña; 1882–1933) and Frances Espinosa Rubio (1891–1985) – were born in the Andalusia region of southern Spain and immigrated to the United States in 1913.[3] Aubin (Maria Antoinette Rubio) was married from 1947 to 1949 to Howard Ansley Phillips (1929–2010), who played baritone saxophone in the Spencer Orchestra from 1947-49, and then settled in Las Vegas, where he would play for all of the major hotels for the next four plus decades. Ms Aubin (Rubio) [4] gave birth to a girl in 1951, but gave her up for adoption (identity and whereabouts unknown). She also had a son, Ian Charles Phillips (born 30 Sep 1949 Pasadena, California), whom she raised.
In 1954, she married Jack Stanley Lanning (1923–2000), they had 4 more children, 2 sons and 2 daughters. They remained married until her death.
Discography[edit]
- Earle Spencer and His Orchestra (78 rpm)[5]
Recorded February 7, 1949, Hollywood, California- "Box Lunch" ("At the Factory"), Paul Nelson (arranger)
- "Sunday afternoon," audio on YouTube
- Toni Aubin (vocalist)
- Seely, Blackburn (w&m)
- Paul Nelson (arranger)
Black & White 875
- Matrix No.: BW 733-1
- Matrix No.: BW 732-1
"Sunday Afternoon" has been re-issued in the following compilations:
- The Almost Forgotten Pioneer of Modern Big Band Jazz Earle Spencer And His Orchestra
1988: IAJRC 41 (LP) - The Almost Forgotten Pioneer of Modern Big Band Jazz Earle Spencer and His Orchestra
2011: Essential Media Group LLC (CD) - Earle Spencer and His New Band Sensation of the Year 1946 – Complete Black & White Reocrdings 1946–1949
Fresh Sound (Sp) FSR 2501 (2 CDs)
OCLC 19638188, 25051047, 982192542
Notes and references[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Louis Moritz Ohls, Jr. (1923–2004)
References[edit]
- ^ American Big Bands, by William Franklin Lee III, PhD (1929–2011), Hal Leonard Corporation (2005), p. 307; ISBN 0634080547; ISBN 9780634080548
- ^ a b "Louis Ohls" (advertisement), Arkansas Gazette, February 23, 1947, p. 57
- ^ "US Census, 1930," (database), FamilySearch, "Mike Rubio, Antioch, Contra Costa, California"Citing enumeration district (ED) 25, sheet 6A, line 12, family 207, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 114; FHL microfilm (fka GS No. – GS = Genealogical Society of Utah) 2339849 (registration/login for FamilySearch is required, but free)
- ^ "A Successful Failure:Bad Breaks Broke Orchestra Leader Louis Ohls, But He's Back in Arkansas Thumbing His Nose at Hollywood"By Roberta Martin (née Cook; 1913–1980), Arkansas Democrat Sunday Magazine, May 1, 1949, p. 5
- ^ The Jazz Discography Online, Tom Lord (ed.), Lord Music (retrieved January 22, 2018); OCLC 182585494, 690104143