Andrew Tibbs [SEP] occupation
Andrew Tibbs
Andrew Tibbs (February 2, 1929 – May 5, 1991) was an American electric and urban blues singer and songwriter. He is best known for his controversial 1947 recording "Bilbo Is Dead", a song relating to the demise of Theodore G. Bilbo.
Biography.
Tibbs was born Melvin Andrew Grayson, in Columbus, Ohio. As a boy he sang in Baptist choirs in Chicago, directed by Mahalia Jackson and Dinah Washington. He was influenced by Ivory Joe Hunter and Arnold "Gatemouth"
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- "Then Came Violence", Doubleday, 1980.
- "Singapore", Dodd, Mead, 1986,
- short stories published in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine":
- "One for Virgil Tibbs" Feb 1976
- "Virgil Tibbs and the Cocktail Napkin" Apr 1977
- "Virgil Tibbs and the Fallen Body" Sep 1978
- short story published in Murder California Style (ed. by John Ball), 1987:
- "Good Evening Mr. Tibbs"