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Singer, Aka FRANK LUTHER PERSONALITY, SPEECH and CURIO 78s FRANKLYN BAUR [t]. Brooklyn, 1903-1950. Baur recorded a number of popular songs and ballads of the time (1923 to about 1931) for Brunswick, Victor and Columbia and a number of small labels as well. He was also a radio singer and had been the Firestone Hour’s leading male soloist from 1928 until 1930, when he was fired for unwisely refusing to sing for a Firestone company function gratis. (His radio payment was very high.) Hoping for a more serious career, Baur then went to France in 1931 for vocal study and made a concert debut at Town Hall on Dec. 5, 1933 in a program including music of Bach, Debussy, Loeffler and Brahms, among others. The reviews, at least those posted in a full-page Musical America ad in Feb. 10, 1934, mentioned his “unusual gifts of sensitivity and musicianship” as well as his “delicate precision of diction and intonation” (NY Times). There were enthusiastic comments quoted from other papers and journals as well, but apparently there were similarly remarks omitted that were less glowing. Added to the fact that it was the middle of the Depression, his new career didn’t take wings. As a popular singer Baur had been replaced by the newer voices of the period. He seems to have basically retired in the mid-1930s and returned to his family home in Brooklyn which he shared with his sister until his death at the age of 47. 2104. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 1027-D [W144274-2/W144275-3]. WHEN LINDY COMES HOME (Cohan) / LINDBERGH: LIKE AN ANGEL YOU FLEW INTO EVERYONE’S HEART (Mills-McHugh). Few lt. rubs, cons. 2. $12.00. NORA BAYES [entertainer] 2336. 10” Purple ’08 Pats. Victor 60019 DAFFYDILS (Bayes-Norworth). Just about 1-2. $15.00. 3277. 12” Purple ’12 Pats. Victor 70020. WHAT GOOD IS WATER WHEN YOU’RE DRY? (Paley). Just about 1-2. $15.00. BUD BILLINGS [singer, a.k.a. FRANK LUTHER] 2357. 10” Blk. Orth. Victor 22463. HELLO YOUNG LINDY / IT’S THE SAME THE WHOLE WORLD OVER (both Carson Robinson). Side two with CARSON ROBINSON [singer]. Just about 1-2. $8.00. RALPH BINGHAM [humorist]. Richmond, VA, 1860-Philadelphia, 1925. Referred to as “The Dean of Platform Humorists”, Bingham achieved fame as a school boy elocutionist and at the age of 14 made his first public appearance as an entertainer. His professional career included more than 7000 performances, many on the Chatauqua circuit. Having a “jovial and cheerful disposition”, he was often termed “the jolliest man in America”. As a writer for The Lyceum (Aug., 1922) wrote, “His humor is always as clean as the mountain stream and as refreshing as the rippling brook”. It wasn’t, however, without its racist elements, not unusual for the time. 3948. 12” Blk. acous. Victor 35490. THE BOY IN THE BLEACHERS (Comic Monologue) / MY POSSUM HUNT (Darky Story). Small lbl. stkrs. Just about 1-2. $8.00. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN [politician] 1073. 10” Blk. ’10 Pats. Victor 16168. AN IDEAL REPUBLIC / IMMORTALITY (speeches). Just about 1-2. $25.00. MARIE CAHILL [comedienne] 1423. 10” Blue acous. Victor 45370. IN A SHOE STORE (Gribble) / THE SYMPHONY CONCERT (Starling). Few lightest rubs, cons. 2. $10.00. 1407. 10” Blue acous. Victor 45386. MAMMY VINY’S BIBLE LESSON / JEZEBEL (both Lynn Starling). Small lbl. stkr. Just about 1-2. $10.00. EDDIE CANTOR [comedian] 4451. 10” Blk. Orth. Victor 22189. EDDIE CANTOR’S TIPS ON THE STOCK MARKET / MY WIFE IS ON A DIET (Bennett). Cons. 2. $12.00. BO CARTER [country blues singer and guitar MARIE CAHILL player]. Bolton, MS, 1892-Memphis, TN, 1964. Carter (born Armenter Chatman) was noted for his bawdy songs, but his output included various country and Delta blues pieces. He became partially blind in the 1930s but continued to work as a farmer and a performer, sometimes with his brothers. 2101. 10” Maroon elec. Okeh 8897 [W404926A/W404938B]. ANTS IN MY PANTS / RAM ROD DADDY (both Carter?). As new, as the grading indicates. Just about 1-2. $25.00. 287 PERSONALITY, SPEECH and CURIO 78s ELRY CASH [country singer and guitar player] 1412. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 15399-D [W148348-2/W148349-1]. MY OLD NEW HAMPSHIRE HOME / WON’T YOU COME BACK TO ME (both Cash?). Small lbl. stkrs. Just about 1-2. $15.00. JOSEPH CAWTHORN[E] [actor]. New York City, 1868-Beverly Hills, CA, 1949. His debut in show business was at the age of eight in New York. He later worked in minstrel shows and vaudeville as a “Dutch comic with a thick accent”. His Broadway debut appears to have been in 1898 in Victor Herbert’s The Fortune Teller. He was a Broadway stalwart until the later 1920s, when he left New York for California. There he continued his career in movies, appearing in over fifty until he retired in 1942. These included such films as White Zombie (1932), Love Me Tonight (1932), Naughty Marietta (1935), Gold Diggers of 1935, The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and Lillian Russell (1940). 4124. 12” Purple ’12 Pats Victor 70098. THE SUN- JOSEPH CAWTHORN SHINE GIRL: You Can’t Play Every Instrument in the Band (Cawthorne-Golden). Just about 1-2. $10.00. Hon. CHAMP CLARK (JAMES BEAUCHAMP CLARK) [U.S. Senator]. Lawrence- burg, KY, 1850-Washington, DC, 1921. Clark settled in Missouri and became a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1982-1921, and was Speaker of the House for a period as well. In 1912, when his recordings were made, he was the forerunner for Democratic candidate for U.S. President. He was, however, defeated by Woodrow Wilson during the Convention. 4393. 12” ’12 Pats. Victor ’12 Pats. 35218. PAYNE-ALDRICH BILL A HUMBUG; CLARK OPPOSED TO AUTOMOBILES AT PUBLIC EXPENSE / PRESIDENT TAFT’S LOST OPPORTUNITY (Speeches). The Clark records are probably the rarest of Victor spoken word recordings. Reviewer’s “X” on lbl. Just about 1-2. $100.00. Dr. FREDERICK A. COOK [explorer and physician]. Callicoon Depot, NY, 1865- 1940. Originally a surgeon in Admiral Peary’s Arctic Expedition (1891) and leader of expeditions to climb Mt. McKinley (1903-06), Cook claimed having reached the North Pole on April 21, 1908. This was denounced by Peary (he referred, “in his usual blunt manner”, to Cook as a “liar”) and was also rejected by scientists after study of the data submitted by Cook. Peary was, the next year, given credit for reaching the Pole on September 6, 1909. This recording, made July 2, 1909, was almost immediately deleted in favor of a disc made by Peary and is today extremely rare. 3726. 12” Blk. ’08 Pats. Victor 31755. HOW I REACHED THE NORTH POLE (Address). Heavily rubbed (probably sleeveless most of its 100+ years life) but it plays well except for a tiny bump about ¼” inch in from the rim which may require extra arm weight. I would grade it 5 because of its visual condition. $25.00. 4287. 12” White lbl. blk. vinyl Vla 31756. Same as the preceding listing (item #3726) except a beautiful vinyl pressing. Only four vinyl copies were pressed, I was told, and then the master broke. Just about 1-2. $100.00. MARLENE DIETRICH [vocalist/actress] 2203. 10” PW (gold print) Victor V-6088 [BLR6035-II/BLR6129-II]. NIMM’ DICH IN ACHT VOR BLONDEN FRAUEN /ICH BIN VON KOPF BIS FUSS AUF LIEBE EINGE- STELLT (Friedrich Höllander). Both from film Der Blaue Engel. Conducted by the composer. Beautiful mint copy. Just about 1-2. $12.00. RUTH ETTING [vocalist] 2103. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 827-D [W142959-3/W142960-2]. JUST A BIRD’S- EYE VIEW OF MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME (Donaldson-Kahn) / I’VE GROWN SO LONESOME THINKING OF YOU (Donaldson-Ash). Piano acc. Paul Hoefle. Just about 1-2. $12.00. GILBERT GERARD and RUSSELL HUNTING [descriptive talk] 1432. 10” Green acous. Davega 5046. HOW SANTA CLAUS MAKES HIS TOYS / HOW SANTA CLAUS DISTRIBUTES HIS TOYS (Gerard-Hunting). Small lbl. stkrs. Just about 1-2. $10.00. 288 PERSONALITY, SPEECH and CURIO 78s CHARLES GORST [whistler and bird imitator]. Gorst toured the country in the early 1900s giving musical and nature presentations through his remarkable skill. Stated a publicity flyer, “The acme of his art …is his reproduction of bird songs … His love of nature, accurate ear, tenacious memory, and versatile whistle enable him to imitate—in fact to reproduce—bird songs with amazing accuracy. His accurate calls have elicted answers from peeping frogs, crickets, larks, whippoorwills, thrashers and many other birds; by night his hooting has called an owl to him from a distance, and at his peeping an angry hen has flown into his face.” 4248. 10” Blk. PW (gold print) acous. Victor 17735. SONGS AND CALLS OF OUR NATIVE BIRDS, No. 3 and 4. Two sides. The only such late issue of this (excellent surfaces) I’ve ever seen. Try playing it with your windows opened and see if there is a response from nature! Just about 1-2. $8.00. GENE GREENE [“The Rag-Time King”]: See Pathé section. EDGAR A. GUEST [poet]. Birmingham, England, 1881-Detroit, MI, 1959. Guest emi- grated to the U.S. with his family in 1891. He began work with the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter. In 1898 his first poem was published, and by the time of his death he had written around eleven thousand poems. His “sentimental, optimistic” style made his writing popular throughout the U.S. His great-niece, Judith Guest, is an author, particularly known for her novel, Ordinary People.
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