Much info on Ingle here

http://www.lyricsvault.eu/php/bio.php?a=5014

[sorry, never could do clickies], incl that he learned the fiddle originally from Fritz Kreisler & played sax early in career in groups including Bix Beiderbecke & Perry Como. Also says that his nickname was Swamphead ~~ I seem to rcall a very early 78 I owned in the late 40s, soon after he would have left Spike Jones to set up on his own account, with group labelled as "Red Ingle & His Swampheeads"; anyone know what that might have been ~ "Cigareets & Whuskey", perhaps?

Which song, Cigs & Whuskey, BTW, has also been recorded by Jim Croce, Ramblin Jack Elliott, The Muppets, et al, et al ~~ but I can't track down who actually wrote it; was it Ingle himself, or does it go back fureher, a real country song that he sent up? Or what?

Anyone know?

~Michael~