Bruce Kingery

Bruce Kingery is a native of Indiana (New Albany) and a former longtime resident of Kokomo, Indiana, where he began his music career, playing saxophone in many of the bands and orchestras of the pre-WWII era.  After the war, he again played in small bands in the North Central Indiana area, until he became active in the United Auto Workers Union, Local 292, at Delco Radio/Delco Electronics Division of General Motors Corporation.  He was actively involved in the Labor Movement from 1950 until his retirement in 1985.

During his active Labor Union years, first as Bargaining Committee Chairman of UAW Local 292 in Kokomo, Indiana, and later, as an International Representative of the Education Department, UAW International Union, at Solidarity House, the UAW's headquarters, in Detroit, Kingery kept writing songs in a variety of styles and types, compiling in time, over 1000 Copyrighted songs as lyricist and composer.  (MOR, Marches, Pop, C & W, Novelty songs, Polkas, Blues, Jazz, Semi-Classical, Waltzes, Religious, Ragtime, Dixieland, Disco, Ballads, and R & B)

As an International Representative of the UAW's Educational Department, he taught hundreds of classes and workshops on related Labor Education subjects, throughout the United States and Canada.  Attending Wayne State University, in Detroit, Michigan.  He earned his BA, MA and Doctor of Education degrees at that major university.

Appointed by Governor James Blanchard of Michigan to the Board of Control (now Trustees) of Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan in 1985, he was awarded the honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by that University in 1993.

A WWII veteran, with more than 20 years of Active and Reserve duty, Kingery is retired from the USAR with the rank of Captain, USAR.  He is a Master Mason.

He is a member of the University of Michigan Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, a life member of Reserve Officers Association. (ROA), the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion.  He has been a Chairperson of the Labor/Business/Industry Advisory Panel of the Michigan Council of the Arts.  He is a member of ASCAP, the Songwriters Guild of America, and a Life Member of the Association of Concert Bands.

Kingery has also written more than 1,000 poems, with more than 35 manuscripts of poetry, educational essays, speeches and labor education papers, which have been placed in the Labor Archives of the Walter Phillip Reuther Library of the Labor & Urban Affairs of his alma mater at Wayne State University.

Along with cowriters Armando Di Robbio (Al Dero), B. J. Shawd, Larry LaVey, Joe Terry, Keith Bradford, Sal Rainone and others, Kingery has four Cassette Albums, to date, on the market plus more than 20 CD Compilation Albums through 1997.

In 1995, he established the music publishing company: Far Memory Music (ASCAP).  In 1998, he established RHM Records, and to date, has produced and released three CD Albums.  They are: "Classic Theme", featuring Sal Rainone; "Rockin' 'Til The Break Of Dawn!" and "D. J. -- Play Me Some Blues" featuring Larry LaVey.  A fourth and fifth CD Album also by Sal Rainone are being released in 2000.  The CD's are featured on ten Internet sales sites and with Radio Station Air Play in the U.S.A., France, Germany, Belgium, China and Japan, among others.

Bruce Kingery has written songs with the following Composers and Lyricists:

Has composed music to poetry by:

Lyrics to songs of: