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The Palmolive Hour
''The Palmolive Hour'' is an American radio concert-variety program, sponsored by Palmolive Soap and broadcast on NBC from December 1927, to July 29, 1931. The Palmolive Musical Stock Company (aka the Palmolivers) offered a mix of jazz, show tunes and opera selections. Format and performers The program usually opened with a duet by Frank Munn and soprano Virginia Rea. To call attention to the sponsor's product, they did not appear on the program under their own names but instead were introduced each week as Paul Oliver and Olive Palmer. Contralto Elizabeth Lennox was featured in duets with Rea. Gus Haenschen led the orchestra, with Frank Black at the piano. Other regular members of the cast were Wilfred Glenn, Lewis James, James Melton, Elliot Shaw, and the Revelers Quartet. Guest appearances Fanny Brice was a guest on the program, and other broadcasts featured such guests as Vaughn De Leath, Gene Tunney, the Duncan Sisters, Cliff Edwards (aka Ukulele Ike), Cecil Lean, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Edwards 1947
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Cleo Mayfield
Cleo Empey (born Cleo Mayfield; August 6, 1898 – November 8, 1954) was an American actress and singer. Biography Mayfield was born on August 6, 1898, as Cleo Empey, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence B. Empey in Hutchinson, Kansas. As a child, she attended the North Side school in Hutchinson, before moving with her family to Kansas City, Missouri at the age of twelve. Mayfield first met Cecil Lean in Chicago in 1912, during the production of ''The Military Girl'' at the Ziegfeld Theatre (Chicago), Ziegfeld Theatre. By 1913, she had assumed the stage name Cleo Mayfield. For the remainder of Lean's career, the two would frequently appear together in theatrical productions. In February 1914, Mayfield married Cecil Lean in a Wedding#Civil wedding, civil ceremony in Chicago. Prior to their marriage, Mayfield and Lean had been in a Romance (love), romantic relationship for over two years that only a few of their closest friends knew about. In July 1935, in the presence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NBC Radio Programs
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American Music Radio Programs
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1930s American Radio Programs
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1920s American Radio Programs
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Palmolive Beauty Box Theater
''Palmolive Beauty Box Theater'' was an American radio program that featured an operetta or other musical each week from April 24, 1934, to October 6, 1937. It was sponsored by Palmolive soap and produced by Bill Bacher.Dunning, John''On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio'' Oxford University Press, New York, 1998, p. 532. Hickerson, Jay, ''The New, Revised Ultimate History of Network Radio Programming and Guide to All Circulating Shows'', Third Edition, Jay Hickerson, 1996.Shilkret, Nathaniel, ed. Shell, Niel and Barbara Shilkret, ''Nathaniel Shilkret: Sixty Years in the Music Business'', Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2005. Shilkret, Nathaniel, Barbara Shilkret, and Niel Shell, ''Feast or Famine: Sixty Years in the Music Business'', archival edition of Shilkret autobiography, 2001 (copies deposited in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, The City College of New York Archival Library, The New York Philharmonic Archives, The Victor Archives (SONY)). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The American Album Of Familiar Music
''The American Album of Familiar Music'' is a radio program of popular music broadcast from October 11, 1931, to June 20, 1954, first on NBC, then on ABC and then on local stations. Directed by James Haupt, the show was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert, better remembered today for creating '' Ma Perkins'' and numerous other soap operas. Sponsored by Bayer Aspirin, the show highlighted performances by a variety of vocalists, instrumentalists, and vocal groups. When it began on October 11, 1931 on NBC, the lead vocalists were Frank Munn and Virginia Rea, two of early radio's top stars because of their previous appearances as "Paul Oliver" and "Olive Palmer" on '' The Palmolive Hour'' (1927–31). Ring Lardner observed, "under any name, they sound as sweet." Lardner outlined his "perfect radio program" for ''The New Yorker'' magazine, and found a place for The Revelers along with Paul Whiteman and Fanny Brice. In the late 1930s, Munn was joined on the program by soprano Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alois Havrilla
Alois Havrilla (July 6, 1891 - December 8, 1952) was an American radio announcer and singer. Early years Havrilla was born on July 6, 1891, in Pressov, Austria-Hungary, and came to the United States with his family when he was four years old. His father, John, was a pharmacist who brought his family to Bridgeport, Connecticut. Havrilla spoke no English when he arrived, and that condition continued as he attended a Bridgeport school in which classes were taught in his native language. As a little boy he sang folks songs of his native land at church parties and social events. He began to learn English at age seven, as John Baker, who was choir director at Bridgeport Trinity Church, taught him singing and speech. At that time he had an alto voice with a three-octave range, but by age 16 his voice had changed to baritone. Havrilla became an apprentice civil engineer with a railroad in New England when he was 13 years old. That commitment took most of his time, limiting his musical ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Muzio
Claudia Muzio (7 February 1889 – 24 May 1936) was an Italian operatic soprano who enjoyed an international career during the early 20th century. Early years Claudina Emilia Maria Muzzio was born in Pavia, the daughter of Carlo Muzio, an operatic stage manager, whose engagements during her childhood took the family to opera houses around Italy as well as to Covent Garden in London and to the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Her mother was a choir singer, Giovanna Gavirati. Muzio arrived in London at the age of 2 and went to school there, becoming fluent in English, before returning to Italy at the age of 16 to study in Turin with Annetta Casaloni, a piano teacher and former operatic mezzo-soprano who had created the role of Maddalena in the world première of Verdi's ''Rigoletto''. Muzio then continued her vocal studies in Milan with Elettra Callery-Viviani. She also took the stage name of Claudia Muzio. Career Muzio made her operatic début in Arezzo (15 January 1910) in the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Revelers
The Revelers were an American quintet (four close harmony singers and a pianist) popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The Revelers' recordings of "Dinah (song), Dinah", "Ol' Man River, Old Man River", "Valencia (song), Valencia", "Baby Face (1926 song), Baby Face", "Blue Room (1926 song), Blue Room", "The Birth of the Blues", "When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba", and many more, became popular in the United States and then Europe in the late 1920s. In August 1929, they appeared in the Netherlands with Richard Tauber at the Kurhaus, Scheveningen and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. All of the members had recorded individually or in various combinations. The quartet, organized in 1918, performed under the name The Shannon Four before changing their name to The Revelers in 1925. The original Revelers were tenors Franklyn Baur and Lewis James (and occasionally Charles W. Harrison substituting when Baur or James was unavailable), baritone Elliot Shaw, bass Wilfred Glenn (who ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Lean
Cecil Worthington Starr Lean (July 7, 1878 – July 18, 1935) was a Canadian-American actor, lyricist, composer, and singer. Biography Cecil Lean was born in London, Ontario, the son of John Udie Lean. As a child, Lean moved with his father to Detroit, Michigan where he began his acting career at the age of 13. At age 19, Lean moved to Chicago, where he rose to prominence acting in a string of musical comedies at the La Salle Theater. Lean married actress Florence Holbrook in a ceremony at the Little Church Around The Corner in Manhattan on September 21, 1902. The two were widely known as "Lovey" and "Dovey" respectively, and the two made a pact to only perform together. The couple separated in 1910, and by 1912, reports had surfaced that the couple were remaining married "for business reasons only". After three previous instances of divorce proceedings were dismissed, the couple divorced in late 1913. Lean first met actress Cleo Mayfield in Chicago in 1912, during the produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
