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Tell Me
Words by J. Will Callahan, music by Max Kortlander
Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
Vocal refrain by Arthur Fields
June 5, 1919 (New York)
Victor 18594
Joseph C. Smith was the director of a dance orchestra that recorded for Victor and Brunswick records between 1916 and 1925. According to the Victor ledgers this group consisted of 2 violins, cello, piano, cornet, trombone, bass clarinet, and traps. Smith, himself, played violin and Hugo Frey is believed to have played the piano.
Arthur Fields (1888 - 1953) was a popular vocalist and performer of the 1920s specializing in novelty, minstrel and rhythmic numbers. He was a child singer, becoming a professional at the age of 11. He did extensive freelance recording using various pseudonyms and also recorded under his own name. In the late 1920s he teamed with Fred Hall and had a daily morning radio show with Hall in 1937. He was a composer or lyricist of popular songs and novelties: "Aba Daba Honeymoon", "On the Mississippi", "I Got a Code id By Dose", and "There Shall Be No More Tears". He also wrote serious works called "48 Hymns of Happiness."
Tell Me
Words by J. Will Callahan, music by Max Kortlander
Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
Vocal refrain by Arthur Fields
June 5, 1919 (New York)
Victor 18594
Joseph C. Smith was the director of a dance orchestra that recorded for Victor and Brunswick records between 1916 and 1925. According to the Victor ledgers this group consisted of 2 violins, cello, piano, cornet, trombone, bass clarinet, and traps. Smith, himself, played violin and Hugo Frey is believed to have played the piano.
Arthur Fields (1888 - 1953) was a popular vocalist and performer of the 1920s specializing in novelty, minstrel and rhythmic numbers. He was a child singer, becoming a professional at the age of 11. He did extensive freelance recording using various pseudonyms and also recorded under his own name. In the late 1920s he teamed with Fred Hall and had a daily morning radio show with Hall in 1937. He was a composer or lyricist of popular songs and novelties: "Aba Daba Honeymoon", "On the Mississippi", "I Got a Code id By Dose", and "There Shall Be No More Tears". He also wrote serious works called "48 Hymns of Happiness."
