Ruby Wright

Ruby Wright-Rapp was a singer and songwriter. Born in Anderson, Indiana, she began singing in a trio at Lake Manitou in Indiana until she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. Wright was featured as a vocalist with the Barney Rapp Orchestra and with his band, Barney Rapp and His New Englanders in the 1930s. She and Barney Rapp would later marry. Wright also sang on the radio on WLW, and for twenty years, appeared on the Ruth Lyons show, "50-50 Club." Wright recorded several tracks for King Records in the 1940s and 1950s. Her single, "Bimbo" reached the charts in the United Kingdom in 1954. Her most popular recording was a Christmas single, "Let's Light the Christmas Tree" that sold 250,000 copies in 1958. She charted again in 1959 with "Three Stars", a tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper. Also in 1959, she was featured on the Kathy Linden hit "Good-bye Jimmy Good-Bye." A compilation of her singles was released on an album entitled "Ruby Wright- Regular Gal: The King Recordings, 1949-1959" which consisted of 27 tracks. Wright died in Cincinnati in 2004 when she was 90 years old.