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1. L'amour, Toujours, L'amour (Love Everlasting)
Words by Catherine Chisholm Cushing, music by Rudolph Friml
Lewis James, tenor
2. Ma Belle
Music by Rudolph Friml
Victor Salon Orchestra, directed by Nathaniel Shilkret
Victor 9650
March 12, 1930
The first song, "L'amour Toujours, L'amour", words by Catherine Chisholm Cushing and score by Rudolph Friml is from a 1922 musical comedy "Bibi Of The Boulevards." After a disappointing trial run in Providence, Rhode Island, the show was abandoned, but Friml salvaged the song and published it as an indendent concert version.
The second section is "Ma Belle" from the 1928 Broadway production "The Three Musketeers" from a book by William Anthony McGuire, lyrics by Clifford Grey and P. G. Wodehouse, and music by Rudolf Friml.
Rudolph Friml (1879 - 1972) born in Prague attended the Prague Conservatory and studied piano with composers Dvorak and Jiranek. He settled in the United States in 1904, was pianist and composer for operettas and romantic musical comedies and had a series of sucessful productions between 1912 and 1934. The more sucessful included "High Jinks" (1914), "Katinka" (1915), "Glorianna" (1918), "The Blue Kitten" (1922), "Rose Marie" (1924), "The Vagabond King" (1925), "The Three Musketeers" (1928). His best known songs included "Only a Rose", "Indian Love Call", "Song of the Vagabonds" and "Donkey Serenade. During his career he colaborated with Otto Harbach, P G Wodehouse, Catherine Chisholm Cushing, Oscar Hammerstein II and Clifford Grey. In 1934, Friml moved to Hollywood to work on film musicals. His filmography includes The Vagabond King, The Lottery Bride, Bachelor Bait, The Return of Chandu, One Frightened Night, Sunset of Power, Chandu on the Magic Island, Rose-Marie, The Firefly, Katakomby, Za Tichych Noci, Crazy House, Up In Arms, Jealousy, Northwest Outpost and Teenage Thunder. In 1971 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Lewis James (1892 - 1959) was one of the most prolific recording artists singing mostly romantic ballads and operettas as a solo artist, and with vocal groups such as the Victor Light Opera Company, Crescent Trio, Shannon Quartet and the Reveler Quartet. He also became the vocal director of the Revelers which by 1930 was one of the most popular quartets in both the United States and Europe. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, he regularly performed on radio programs such as The Maxwell House Hour with Nathaniel Shilkret , Palmolive Hour and General Electric Hour. In 1930 he sang the tenor role in Wagner's Parsifal for NBC radio. He was a seasoned veteran in broadcast radio performing in the very first commercial broadcast in 1921 from the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. James recalled the event several years later how the studio walls was curtained from ceiling to floor with heavy dark material to deaden it acoustically. During his musical career he made more than 2000 recordings.
1. L'amour, Toujours, L'amour (Love Everlasting)
Words by Catherine Chisholm Cushing, music by Rudolph Friml
Lewis James, tenor
2. Ma Belle
Music by Rudolph Friml
Victor Salon Orchestra, directed by Nathaniel Shilkret
Victor 9650
March 12, 1930
The first song, "L'amour Toujours, L'amour", words by Catherine Chisholm Cushing and score by Rudolph Friml is from a 1922 musical comedy "Bibi Of The Boulevards." After a disappointing trial run in Providence, Rhode Island, the show was abandoned, but Friml salvaged the song and published it as an indendent concert version.
The second section is "Ma Belle" from the 1928 Broadway production "The Three Musketeers" from a book by William Anthony McGuire, lyrics by Clifford Grey and P. G. Wodehouse, and music by Rudolf Friml.
Rudolph Friml (1879 - 1972) born in Prague attended the Prague Conservatory and studied piano with composers Dvorak and Jiranek. He settled in the United States in 1904, was pianist and composer for operettas and romantic musical comedies and had a series of sucessful productions between 1912 and 1934. The more sucessful included "High Jinks" (1914), "Katinka" (1915), "Glorianna" (1918), "The Blue Kitten" (1922), "Rose Marie" (1924), "The Vagabond King" (1925), "The Three Musketeers" (1928). His best known songs included "Only a Rose", "Indian Love Call", "Song of the Vagabonds" and "Donkey Serenade. During his career he colaborated with Otto Harbach, P G Wodehouse, Catherine Chisholm Cushing, Oscar Hammerstein II and Clifford Grey. In 1934, Friml moved to Hollywood to work on film musicals. His filmography includes The Vagabond King, The Lottery Bride, Bachelor Bait, The Return of Chandu, One Frightened Night, Sunset of Power, Chandu on the Magic Island, Rose-Marie, The Firefly, Katakomby, Za Tichych Noci, Crazy House, Up In Arms, Jealousy, Northwest Outpost and Teenage Thunder. In 1971 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Lewis James (1892 - 1959) was one of the most prolific recording artists singing mostly romantic ballads and operettas as a solo artist, and with vocal groups such as the Victor Light Opera Company, Crescent Trio, Shannon Quartet and the Reveler Quartet. He also became the vocal director of the Revelers which by 1930 was one of the most popular quartets in both the United States and Europe. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, he regularly performed on radio programs such as The Maxwell House Hour with Nathaniel Shilkret , Palmolive Hour and General Electric Hour. In 1930 he sang the tenor role in Wagner's Parsifal for NBC radio. He was a seasoned veteran in broadcast radio performing in the very first commercial broadcast in 1921 from the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. James recalled the event several years later how the studio walls was curtained from ceiling to floor with heavy dark material to deaden it acoustically. During his musical career he made more than 2000 recordings.
