#10: Bad Boy by the Jive Bombers

City: Dauphin, MB
Radio Station: CKDM
Peak Month: March 1957
Peak Position in Dauphin ~ #9
Peak position in Vancouver ~ did not chart
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #36
YouTube: “Bad Boy”
Lyrics: “Bad Boy”

The Jive Bombers were an R&B doo wop group whose members consisted of Clarence Palmer, William “Pee Wee” Tinney, Al Tinney, and Earl Johnson. Palmer was born in 1911, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and was stricken with polio as a child. He was the lead vocalist for the Jive Bombers. Al Tinney was born in Alsonia, CT, in 1921, and his brother “Pee Wee” Tinney was born in 1930. Earl Johnson was born in 1932. Al Tinney was a child actor and appeared in the Broadway cast of Porgy and Bess starting in October 1935 at the Alvin Theater in Manhattan. The Tinney brothers , Pee Wee and Al, had both been part of the cast of a 1938 Broadway musical, Sing Out The News. Al Tinney was part of the band that played at Monroe’s Uptown House at 198 West 134th St in Harlem. Tinney was with the band from 1939 to 1943. Others in the house band at the time included saxophonist Charlie Parker, drummer Max Roach, trumpeters Vic Coulsen, Benny Harris, and George Treadwell. Al Tinney was drafted into the United States Army in 1943, and served until 1946.
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