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Performed by: Billy Murray & His Orchestra
Full Song Title: Wait Till You Get Them Up In The Air, Boys
Recorded in: 1919
William Thomas Murray (born May 25, 1877 – died 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.
illy 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.S. as well as the Tin Pan Alley music industry were concentrated.
In 1906, he recorded the first of his popular duets with Ada Jones. He also performed with Aileen Stanley, the Haydn Quartet, the American Quartet (also known as the Premier Quartet), and Elsie Baker; as well as performed solo work.
Nicknamed "The Denver Nightingale", Murray had a strong tenor voice with excellent enunciation and a conversational delivery compared with bel canto singers of the era. On comic songs, he often deliberately sang slightly flat, which he felt helped the comic effect. Although he often performed romantic numbers and ballads which sold well, his comedy and novelty song recordings continue to be popular with later generations of record collectors.
Murray was a devoted baseball fan, and he is said to have played with the New York Highlanders (Yankees) in exhibition games. He also supposedly sometimes called in sick to recording sessions in order to go to the ballpark. Murray recorded "Tessie, You Are the Only, Only, Only", which became the unofficial theme of the 1903 World Series, when the words were changed from "Tessie, you know I love you madly" to "Honus, why do you hit so badly?"
Murray's popularity faded as public taste changed and recording technology advanced; the rise of the electric microphone in the mid-1920s coincided with the era of the crooners. His "hammering" style, as he called it, essentially yelling the song into an acoustic recording horn, did not work in the electrical era, and he had to learn to soften his voice.
Though his singing style was less in demand, he continued to find recording work. By the late 1920s and early 1930s, the music from his early days was considered nostalgic, and Murray was in demand again. He did voices for animated cartoons, especially the popular "follow the bouncing ball" sing-along cartoons and the Fleischer Studios character Bimbo. He also did radio work. In 1929, Murray and Walter Scanlon provided the voices for the Fleischer short animation film Finding His Voice, produced by Western Electric.
Murray made his last recordings for Beacon Records on February 11, 1943 with Jewish dialect comedian Monroe Silver. He retired the next year to Freeport, Long Island, New York because of heart problems.
Variety estimated he made between 6,000 and 10,000 recordings in 45 years under a range of different pseudonyms, selling up to 300 million records, a record at the time.
He died at nearby Jones Beach of a heart attack in 1954 at the age of 77. Murray had married three times; the first two marriages ended in divorce. He was survived by his third wife, Madeleine, and is buried in the Cemetery of the Holy Rood in Westbury, New York.
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Stu
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Performed by: Billy Murray & His Orchestra
Full Song Title: Wait Till You Get Them Up In The Air, Boys
Recorded in: 1919
William Thomas Murray (born May 25, 1877 – died 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.
illy 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.S. as well as the Tin Pan Alley music industry were concentrated.
In 1906, he recorded the first of his popular duets with Ada Jones. He also performed with Aileen Stanley, the Haydn Quartet, the American Quartet (also known as the Premier Quartet), and Elsie Baker; as well as performed solo work.
Nicknamed "The Denver Nightingale", Murray had a strong tenor voice with excellent enunciation and a conversational delivery compared with bel canto singers of the era. On comic songs, he often deliberately sang slightly flat, which he felt helped the comic effect. Although he often performed romantic numbers and ballads which sold well, his comedy and novelty song recordings continue to be popular with later generations of record collectors.
Murray was a devoted baseball fan, and he is said to have played with the New York Highlanders (Yankees) in exhibition games. He also supposedly sometimes called in sick to recording sessions in order to go to the ballpark. Murray recorded "Tessie, You Are the Only, Only, Only", which became the unofficial theme of the 1903 World Series, when the words were changed from "Tessie, you know I love you madly" to "Honus, why do you hit so badly?"
Murray's popularity faded as public taste changed and recording technology advanced; the rise of the electric microphone in the mid-1920s coincided with the era of the crooners. His "hammering" style, as he called it, essentially yelling the song into an acoustic recording horn, did not work in the electrical era, and he had to learn to soften his voice.
Though his singing style was less in demand, he continued to find recording work. By the late 1920s and early 1930s, the music from his early days was considered nostalgic, and Murray was in demand again. He did voices for animated cartoons, especially the popular "follow the bouncing ball" sing-along cartoons and the Fleischer Studios character Bimbo. He also did radio work. In 1929, Murray and Walter Scanlon provided the voices for the Fleischer short animation film Finding His Voice, produced by Western Electric.
Murray made his last recordings for Beacon Records on February 11, 1943 with Jewish dialect comedian Monroe Silver. He retired the next year to Freeport, Long Island, New York because of heart problems.
Variety estimated he made between 6,000 and 10,000 recordings in 45 years under a range of different pseudonyms, selling up to 300 million records, a record at the time.
He died at nearby Jones Beach of a heart attack in 1954 at the age of 77. Murray had married three times; the first two marriages ended in divorce. He was survived by his third wife, Madeleine, and is buried in the Cemetery of the Holy Rood in Westbury, New York.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I have.
Best wishes,
Stu
______________________
Please Note: I do not claim copyright or ownership of the song played in this video. All copyrighted content remains property of their respective owners.
![Grammophon Orchester - Onkelchen sei doch nicht böse [ Uncle dont be angry ] (1916)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iC12eG3PCBU/hqdefault.jpg "Grammophon Orchester - Onkelchen sei doch nicht böse [ Uncle dont be angry ] (1916)
Performed by: Grammophon Orchester
Vocalist: Unknown
Full Song Title: Onkelchen sei doch nicht böse
Recorded in: 1916 , Berlin Germany
The Grammophon-Orchester, also known as the Gramophone Orchestra, was a collective term used to refer to various artists that recorded for the record label Deutsche Grammophon Aktiengesellschaft Berlin. Deutsche Grammophon, founded in 1898, is a German music label that has played a significant role in the recording and distribution of shellac music in the early 20th century.
The Grammophon-Orchester played a vital role in Deutsche Grammophons recording activities, providing the musical accompaniment for numerous artists and soloists who recorded under the label. These orchestras were carefully selected and constituted some of the finest ensembles in Germany. They were renowned for their high level of musicianship, precision, and interpretation of the German folk repertoire. But unfortunately they are mostly not acknowledged on the records. This makes it very difficult to find out more about the artists and the lives they lived.
This song is from Das Fräulein vom Amt (The Miss from the Office) by Jean Gilbert, Okonkowski Georg and Franz Arnold. Premiered in 1915 at the Theater des Westens at Kantstraße 12 in Berlin, Germany.
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![Jean Lumière - La Petite Église [The Little Church] (1933)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/idSWNS2abJw/hqdefault.jpg "Jean Lumière - La Petite Église [The Little Church] (1933)
Performed by: Jean Lumière
Full Song Title: La Petite Église
Recorded in: 1933
Jean Lumière (born August 20, 1895 in Marseille and died April 2, 1979 in Paris) was a popular French singer and Grand Prix du Disque winner of the 1930s.
His real name was Jean Anezin, he was born into a family of music-loving merchants. He first considered an acting career, but then changed his mind and began singing in Nice and Marseille. Following a meeting with the singer Esther Lekain, he made his debut in 1930 in Paris at the Théâtre de lEuropéen. Esther Lekain urged him to change his name and allegedly chose his pseudonym for him: Your voice is clear, you are from the South, your name will be Jean Lumière.
In 1934, he had great success with Paul Delmets song La Petite Église , winning the Grand Prix du Disque, pursuing a remarkable career in Europe, the Middle East, and South America. He is notably the first performer of the French version of the song taken from the animated feature film Pinocchio from Disney studios released in 1946: Quand on prie la bonne étoiles (When You Wish upon a Star).
Long considered to have the best radio voice, Jean Lumière left the stage in 1960 to become a singing teacher. His students include Marcel Amont, Gloria Lasso, Cora Vaucaire, Diane Dufresne, Mireille Mathieu.
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Stu
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![Aldo Masseglia & Meme Bianchi - Che Bel Romanzo Damore [What a beautiful romance] (1936)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j_xInjn08Dw/hqdefault.jpg "Aldo Masseglia & Meme Bianchi - Che Bel Romanzo Damore [What a beautiful romance] (1936)
Performed by: Aldo Masseglia & Meme Bianchi
Full Song Title: Che Bel Romanzo Damore
Recorded in: 1936
Some of you may recognize this iconic song, this is a cover of Fred Astaires & Ginger Rogerss - A Fine Romance from the movie Swing Time (1936).
You can hear Freds and Gingers original here: https://youtu.be/sRqK-KxNLAY
Aldo Masseglia (La Spezia, 5 October 1903 - Lodi, 2 September 1978) was a popular Italian singer of the 1930s.
He began his career in the early thirties as a violinist, playing in various orchestral formations, until he revealed good singing skills that allowed him to enter the EIAR in Turin in 1936, in the Barzizza orchestra.
Here he met and married the Milanese singer Nuccia Natali, from whom, in 1943, he had a daughter, Rosella Masseglia Natali, who was an appreciated pop singer in the sixties.
He also participated in the famous radio broadcasts The Four Musketeers, where he played the role of Athos, and The Phantom Microphone, both conceived by Nizza and Morbelli.
In 1938 he left the radio to devote himself to musical performances, giving way to Alberto Rabagliati.
His most significant interpretations are: Cuore A Cuor, Tu che ti chiami amor, Vele, Cinquantanni fa, Gioventù, Lasciati andare, Villanella, Faccetta nera, Francescamaria, Me ne frego, Ritorna il legionario, Bandiere al sole e Ti saluto and e vado in Abissinia.
Meme Bianchi, born Magda Merope Bianchi (Porto Ceresio, April 26, 1907 - Milan, October 25, 2000), was a popular Italian singer of the 1930s.
She inherited the ability to sing from her mother, Ida Viale, an opera singer, and from her grandmother, Merope Bavestrelli Bianchi, also an opera singer. From her grandmother she also inherited her middle name, which as a child she could not pronounce, she used to pronounce Merope as Meme and from thereon Meme became her nickname.
She grew up in Porto Ceresio and obtained a primary school teacher diploma, but her father did not want her to take up the teaching profession, so as a young woman she began to work in her fathers customs office at the train station.
In the years between the word war one and world war two, some of her family members in Porto Ceresio had started a theater company and in the summer they performed stage plays in the newly built theater. At the end of the show, the audience asked Meme to sing and one evening in 1933, a talent scout for a record label, offered her to audition in Milan. Under the pretext of running some errands, Meme auditioned and got a record deal thanks to her great vocal range, her soft voice and her clear diction.
She recorded hundreds of records, many under the orchestral direction of Mario Mariotti, who would later become her husband. She becomes the first singer of EIAR, performing with the famous orchestras of Petralia and Barzizza. On the radio she played operettas such as Al Cavallino Bianco and The Four Musketeers, the famous broadcast show with Nunzio Filogamo linked to a prized competition.
She also made numerous recordings with the orchestra of Maestro Enzo Ceragioli for the Odeon label.
In 1936 she was with the group Schwarz. Singer/actress in the Bertoldissimo stage play. In Greece she inaugurated Radio Athens and in Switzerland Radio Monteceneri; she went on many tours throughout Italy and abroad with the group I Divi del Microphone.
In 1939, at the church of SantAmbrogio in Porto Ceresio, she married maestro Mario Mariotti (1889-1975), composer, arranger and director of the Odeon record label, for whom she recorded at the time.
At the outbreak of the war she continued to perform in the theater and for soldiers she gave recitals accompanied by a single accordion, one of such performances was on the destroyer Grecale. As a thank you, the sailors lined up in a row in front of her and they gave her their rations of coffee.
In 1958 she retired to her hometown, resuming her job at her fathers customs office at the the train station.She passed away in Milan on 25 October 2000.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I have.
Best wishes,
Stu
Please Note: I do not claim copyright or ownership of the song played in this video. All copyrighted content remains property of their respective owners.")
