Hal Singer (b. Harold Joseph Singer, 8 October 1919, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American R&B and jazz bandleader and saxophonist. He studied violin as a child, but as a teenager switched to clarinet and then tenor saxophone, which became his instrument of choice. From the late 1930s he began playing in local bands, including that of Ernie Fields, before joining Jay McShann's orchestra in 1943 and then moving to New York. After working in various other bands, he joined Oran "Hot Lips" Page?s band in 1947, and also began working as a session musician with King Records. In early 1948 he left Page, formed his own small group, and was signed to Mercury records where he cut his first single Fine As Wine with a B side as Rock around the Clock-which was not the same title made famous by Bill Haley[.For the Savoy label of Newark New Jersey he recorded the instrumental "Corn Bread", which made # 1 on the R & B charts in September 1948, and gave Singer a ne

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