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John Bieling
John H. Bieling (March 15, 1869 – March 30, 1948) was an American tenor singer who was a pioneer recording artist in the early years of the twentieth century. He featured on thousands of recordings, especially as a member of The Haydn Quartet and American Quartet (ensemble), The American Quartet, two of the most popular vocal groups of the period. Biography He was born in New York City, and started work in the 1880s in a stained glass factory. He also sang in vocal groups, and by the early 1890s was a member of the Manhansett Quartet, Manhansett (or Manhasset) Quartet, with George J. Gaskin, Joe Riley and Walter Snow. The quartet made its first recordings in 1892 for the United States Phonograph Company in Newark, New Jersey, and also recorded for many other early cylinder recording companies including Columbia Records, Columbia and Edison Records, Edison. Bieling also recorded in the 1890s in a duo with Gaskin. His purity of tone led him to be nicknamed "The Canary". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bieling
John H. Bieling (March 15, 1869 – March 30, 1948) was an American tenor singer who was a pioneer recording artist in the early years of the twentieth century. He featured on thousands of recordings, especially as a member of The Haydn Quartet and American Quartet (ensemble), The American Quartet, two of the most popular vocal groups of the period. Biography He was born in New York City, and started work in the 1880s in a stained glass factory. He also sang in vocal groups, and by the early 1890s was a member of the Manhansett Quartet, Manhansett (or Manhasset) Quartet, with George J. Gaskin, Joe Riley and Walter Snow. The quartet made its first recordings in 1892 for the United States Phonograph Company in Newark, New Jersey, and also recorded for many other early cylinder recording companies including Columbia Records, Columbia and Edison Records, Edison. Bieling also recorded in the 1890s in a duo with Gaskin. His purity of tone led him to be nicknamed "The Canary". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Good Old Summer Time
"In the Good Old Summer Time" is an American Tin Pan Alley song first published in 1902 with music by George Evans and lyrics by Ren Shields. Background Shields and Evans were at first unsuccessful in trying to sell the song to one of New York's big sheet music publishers. The publishers thought the topic of the song doomed it to be forgotten at the end of the summer season. Blanche Ring, who had helped Evans arrange the number's piano score, was enthusiastic about it and at her urging it was added to the 1902 musical comedy show "The Defender" she was appearing in. The song was a hit from the opening night, with the audience often joining in singing the chorus. "In the Good Old Summer Time" was one of the big hits of the era, selling popular sheet music and being recorded by various artists of the day, including John Philip Sousa's band in 1903. It has remained a standard often revived in the decades since. The song appeared in many films, including the 1949 Judy Garland fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonlight Bay
"Moonlight Bay" is a popular song. It is commonly referred to as "On Moonlight Bay". The lyrics were written by Edward Madden, the music by Percy Wenrich, and was published in 1912. It is often sung in a barbershop quartet style. Early successful recordings in 1912 were by the American Quartet and by Dolly Connolly. Notable covers * Glenn Miller and his Orchestra recorded the song on March 22, 1937, with a special swing arrangement by Miller. * The song was featured the film ''Tin Pan Alley'' (1940), where it was sung by Alice Faye. Faye also included the song in her 1962 album ''Alice Faye Sings Her Greatest Movie Hits''. * The song, sung in barbershop quartet style, features in the first Daffy Duck cartoon, ''Porky's Duck Hunt'' (1937). * Porky Pig repeatedly tries to sing the song in the 1942 cartoon, ''My Favorite Duck''. * The Mills Brothers recorded the song in 1940 for Decca Records. * The song was featured in the musical film '' On Moonlight Bay'' (1951) and gave the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
"Oh, You Beautiful Doll" is a ragtime love song published in 1911 with words by Seymour Brown and music by Nat D. Ayer. The song was one of the first with a twelve-bar opening. The tune has been recorded hundreds of times by many artists from first publication until recent times. Lyrics Verse 1 : Honey dear, when you're near, : Just turn out the light and then come over here, : Nestle close, up to my side, : My heart's on fire, with love's desire. : In my arms, rest complete, : I never thought that life could ever be so sweet, : 'til I met you some time ago, : But now I know I love you so. Chorus :''Oh! you beautiful doll,'' :''You great big beautiful doll!'' :''Let me put my arms about you,'' :''I could never live without you;'' :''Oh! you beautiful doll,'' :''You great big beautiful doll!'' :''If you ever leave me how my heart will ache,'' :''I want to hug you but I fear you'd break'' :''Oh, oh, oh, oh,'' :''Oh, you beautiful doll!'' Second verse : Precious prize, close ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Jones
Ada Jane Jones (June 1, 1873 – May 2, 1922) was an English-American popular singer who made her first recordings in 1893 on Edison cylinders. She is among the earliest female singers to be recorded. Biography She was born in Lancashire, UK, but moved with her family to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the age of six in 1879. She started performing on stage, including juvenile roles in the 1880s. She sang in a contralto, learning songs by ear, and lacked the ability to read music or play an instrument. Her repertoire included ballads, ragtime, vaudeville, and comedy in a variety of dialects. During 1893–1894, she recorded for Edison Records on wax cylinders, making her among the earliest female singers to be recorded. She sang with Billy Murray, Billy Watkins, Cal Stewart, Len Spencer, the American Quartet, and with her 12-year-old daughter Sheilah. Touring was made difficult due to epilepsy. In 1893 or 1894 she recorded some musical performances for the North American Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ballad Of Casey Jones
"The Ballad of Casey Jones", also known as "Casey Jones, the Brave Engineer" or simply "Casey Jones", is a traditional American folk song about railroad engineer Casey Jones and his death at the controls of the train he was driving. It tells of how Jones and his fireman Sim Webb raced their locomotive to make up for lost time, but discovered another train ahead of them on the line, and how Jones remained on board to try to stop the train as Webb jumped to safety. It is song number 3247 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The song helped preserve the memory of Jones' feat down through the years in its 40 plus versions and enhanced Casey’s legendary status to the extent that he has even become something of a mythological figure like Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan to the uninformed. Books and pulp magazines about the railroad and its heroes helped to perpetuate his memory as well. Soon after Casey’s death, the song was first sung by engine wiper and friend of Casey’s named Wallace S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowboy Songs
Western music is a form of country music composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada. Western music celebrates the lifestyle of the cowboy on the open ranges, Rocky Mountains, and prairies of Western North America. Directly related musically to old English, Irish, Scottish, and folk ballads, also the Mexican folk music of Northern Mexico and Southwestern United States influenced the development of this genre, particularly corrido, ranchera, New Mexico and Tejano. Western music shares similar roots with Appalachian music (also called ''country'' or ''hillbilly music''), which developed around the same time throughout Appalachia and the Appalachian Mountains. The music industry of the mid-20th century grouped the two genres together under the banner of ''country and western music'', later amalgamated into the modern name, ''country music''. Origins Western music was directly influenced by the folk music tradit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Porter (singer)
Stephen Carl Porter (1864 – January 13, 1946) was an American pioneer recording artist, who recorded prolifically for numerous recording companies in the 1890s and early 1900s. He was also an entrepreneur who helped establish the recording industry in India in the early years of the twentieth century, and successfully marketed a new form of hearing aid. Biography He was born in New York City. In the 1890s he performed as a baritone singer in vaudeville, as a member of the Diamond Comedy Four with Albert Campbell, Jim Reynard, and Billy Jones, who worked as song pluggers in "Tin Pan Alley" for the music publishers Joe Stern and Edward B. Marks. Frank W. Hoffmann, ''Survey of Leading Acoustic Era Recording Artists'', Sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Over The Hills And Far Away (traditional Song)
"Over the Hills and Far Away" is a traditional British song, dating back to at least the late 17th century. One version was published in Thomas D'Urfey's ''Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy''; a very different one appeared in George Farquhar's 1706 play ''The Recruiting Officer''. A version also appears in John Gay's ''The Beggar's Opera'' of 1728. The words have changed over the years, as can be seen in the versions below. The only consistent element in early versions is the title line and the tune. D'Urfey's and Gay's versions both refer to lovers, while Farquhar's version refers to fleeing overseas to join the army. The tune was provided with another set of lyrics for the British '' Sharpe'' television series of the 1990s, based on Farquhar's version. This version was also recorded by John Tams who played Dan Hagman in the series. The nursery rhyme "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" mentions a piper who knows only one tune, this one. Early versions of this, known as "T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Sweet Bye And Bye
"The Sweet By-and-By" is a Christian hymn with lyrics by S. Fillmore Bennett and music by Joseph P. Webster. It is recognizable by its chorus: Background Bennett described the composition of the hymn in his autobiography. Performance history The hymn, immensely popular in the nineteenth century, became a Gospel standard and has appeared in hymnals ever since. A crowd of admirers in New Zealand sang the hymn in 1885 at the railway station to the departing American temperance evangelists Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Blue Ribbon Army representative R.T. Booth. In the New Orleans jazz tradition, the song is a standard dirge played in so-called "jazz funerals". The American composer Charles Ives quoted the hymn in several works, most notably in the finale of his ''Orchestral Set No. 2'', written between 1915 and 1919. Translations of the text exist in a number of world languages. It continues to be regularly perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
By The Light Of The Silvery Moon (song)
"By The Light of the Silvery Moon" or "By the Light of the Silv'ry Moon" is a popular love song. The music was written by Gus Edwards, and the lyrics by Edward Madden. The song was published in 1909 and first performed on stage by Lillian Lorraine in the ''Ziegfeld Follies of 1909''. It was one of a series of moon-related Tin Pan Alley songs of the era. The song was also used in the short-lived Broadway show ''Miss Innocence'' (September 27-October 9, 1909) when it was sung by Frances Farr. Popular recordings in 1910 were by Billy Murray and The Haydn Quartet; Ada Jones; and The Peerless Quartet. The song has been used in a great many television shows and motion pictures. In 1935, the song in short was used in the Charles Laughton film ''Ruggles of Red Gap'' in a segue. Later, the movie of the same title was released in 1953, starring Doris Day. It served as a sequel to '' On Moonlight Bay'', which also starred Doris Day. The song was originally recorded in C major, but has s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Murray (singer)
William Thomas Murray (May 25, 1877 – August 17, 1954) was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early 20th century. While he received star billing in vaudeville, he was best known for his prolific work in the recording studio, making records for almost every record label of the era. Life and career Billy Murray was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Patrick and Julia (Kelleher) Murray, immigrants from County Kerry, Ireland. His parents moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1882, where he grew up. He became fascinated with the theater and joined a traveling vaudeville troupe in 1893. He also performed in minstrel shows early in his career. In 1897 Murray made his first recordings for Peter Bacigalupi, the owner of a phonograph company in San Francisco. As of 2010, none of Murray's cylinder records with Bacigalupi are known to have survived. In 1903, he started recording regularly in the New York City and New Jersey area, where major record companies in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
