78 rpm PERSONALITY, SPEECH, BAND,
ODD and EARLY LABELS & CURIO
RECORDINGS
[BAND] KGL. BAIR. INFANTRIE LIEBREGIMENT, MÜNCHEN
4323. 10” Blk. Imported Monarch 5086 [10z-IIIo-D]. DONAUWELLEN [composer?). This
rare label is very clean and bright. The record, however, is very worn and greyed.
5-6. $10.00.
BANDA CREATORE dir. GIUSEPPE CREATORE
4329. 10” Blk. EE Victor 78265. LIBERTÀ DEI PRIGIONIERI ITALIANI (Orlando)/MARESCIALLO CADORNA-MARCIA SINFONICA IN F (Creatore). One LSS, just about
12. $8.00.
BANDA MUNICIPAL DE BARCELONA
4325. 10” Blk. ’12 Pats. Victor 63353 [529y/5389h]. ALBORADA GALLEGA
(Beiga)/COBLA “LA PRINCIPAL DE PERELADA”. MELANGIA (Serra). Two minor
rubs side two, cons. 2. $10.00.
JOHN BARRYMORE [actor]
1415. 12” PW (gold print) Victor 6827.
HENRY VI: Gloucester’s Soliloquy/
HAMLET: Hamlet’s Soliloquy (Shakespeare). Few lightest mks., cons. 2.
$7.00.
IRVING BERLIN [composer, singer]
3298. 10” vinyl Columbia 32228. FOLLOW
THE CROWD (Irving Berlin). Sung
and self-accompanied by Berlin.
Unpublished. A very enthusiastic
performer of his own song and lyrics.
A very few copies were pressed in the
1960s. Couple lightest rubs, cons. 2.
$75.00.
3295. 10” vinyl Columbia 32229. WHAT AM I
GONNA DO? (Irving Berlin). Sung
and self- accompanied by Berlin.
Recorded for a Friars’ Club Dinner in, I
believe, 1914 at which Berlin was
honored. This may have been originnally a special pressing as a gift for
IRVING BERLIN and his bride, ELLIN MACKAY
Friars’ Club members, but if so I’ve
never heard of an original shellac
copy having survived. Very funny topical ragtime song mentioning various of the
Friars’ Club members (John Rumsey, Sam Harris, George M. Cohan, Victor Herbert,
etc.). A few copies were pressed in the 1960s of this important item. Just about 1-
2. $75.00.
General WILLIAM BOOTH (Nottingham,
1829-1912). Booth was a British Methodist preacher
who founded the Salvation Army and became its first
General. The movement’s main thrust was being a
distributor of humanitarian aid and related Christian
ministry work. During his lifetime, Booth’s Salvation Army
was extended to 58 countries and colonies. The poem
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven was written in his
honor by Vachel Lindsay. The royalties for his recording
work were added “to the Salvation Army’s Fund for
reclaiming the outcast and criminal, and aiding the
unemployed.”
3271. 10” Blk. Columbia 2075 [26054/26056].
THROUGH JORDAN [an address in
verse]/ PLEASE SIR, SAVE ME!
(Address). Excellent mid-20s pressing,
just about 1-2. $25.00.
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78 rpm PERSONALITY, SPEECH, BAND, ODD and EARLY LABELS & CURIO RECORDINGS
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN [politician; lawyer; orator]. 1860-1925. Lawyer,
celebrated orator and political leader,
Bryan was a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives and a threetime nominee for U.S. President
(1896, 1900, 1908). He also served as
Secretary of State (1913-15). As a
lawyer, he was the leading prosecuting attorney in the 1925 case of
John Scopes, accused of teaching
evolution in his school classes. Bryan
died suddenly a few days after the
trial was concluded.
3264. 10” Blk. Victor GP ’08 “A”
plate 5540. THE
LABOR QUESTION
[speech]. A top copy,
but to be absolutely
honest a very few
lightest mks., cons. 2.
Mr. Bryan encouraging
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN orating
here, among other
things in this 1908 recording, an eight-hour work day. $35.00.
3880. 10” Blk. Notes Columbia A1014 [14525/14526]. IMMORTALITY/MYSTERIES (both
William Jennings Bryan). Bright copy, just about 1-2. $10.00.
3854. 10” Dark Blue Gennett 5226 [11526B/7698B]. THE 23rd PSALM (Bible)/ WESTMINSTER QUARTET. LEAD KINDLY LIGHT (Dykes). Side one couple lt. rubs,
cons. 2. Side two few more rubs, 2. $10.00.
3855. 10” Dark Blue Gennett 5226 [11526/7698]. Same as previous listing (item #3854)
but different take side one. Side one cons. 2. Side two few LSSs and rubs, 2-3.
$10.00.
MARIE CAHILL [comedienne/actress]. Brooklyn, 1870-1933.
She starred in a number of
New York stage productions, having begun her New York career in 1888. In the ‘teens Cahill appeared in a
few silent films. From 1919, she was a popular vaudeville headliner as an impressionist (humorous
monologist), this being the nature of most of her six records.
3864. 10” acous. Blue Victor 45265. WASHING BABY/SHOPPING. Authors not credited.
Probably Cahill. Just about 1-2. $10.00.
WILF CARTER [country music singer]. Nova Scotia, 1904-1996.
First a lumberjack in
Alberta, Carter became a country music singer and was first heard on the radio in 1930. Known originally as
“The Yodelling Cowboy” and then “Montana Slim”, Carter was a major force in country music for over 60
years.
4469. 10” Blue PW Canadian Bluebird B-4989. CALGARY ROUND-UP (Carter)/PALE
KNIGHT (both Carter). Just about 1-2. $10.00.
ROBERT CHAUVELOT [speaker].
Author of books on India and the Pacific Islands.
4033. 10” Plum elec. Disque Gram. K-3611 [OG934-II/935-II]. TÉ RÉVE NËI/CHANT
CANNIBALE DES ILES MARQUISES (Songs and Dances of Tahiti). Chauvelot
introduces Mlles. Tukua, Tauhere and Teuira who sing Tahitian folk music. Just
about 1-2. $10.00.
JEAN COCTEAU [author, speaker]
2000. 12” Blue Eng. Col. LFX 3. LA TOISON D’OR/LES VOLEURS D’ENFANTS (both
Cocteau). With DAN PARRISH (JAZZ) ORCHESTRA. Cocteau speaks and the
orchestra plays between verses. Just about 1-2. $30.00.
COLUMBIA LIGHT OPERA COMPANY. Side one with FRANKLYN BAUR, JUDSON
HOUSE, LEWIS JAMES, JUSTIN LAURIE [tenors]; ELLIOTT SHAW [b]; WILFRED
GLENN, HARRY DONAGHY [basses]. Side two with GLADYS RICE, DELLA BAKER,
VIRGINIA REA, OLIVE MARSHALL [sopranos], FRANCES PAPERTE [ms], DORIS DOE [c]
and same male voices as on the previous side. Paperte was with the Chicago Opera and in
the 1921 world premiere of Prokofiev’s Love of Three Oranges. Doe was later a Met artist.
2473. 12” Blk. VT Columbia 50031-D [W98307-3/98303-3]. THE DESERT SONG: Vocal
Gems (Hammerstein-Romberg)/OH, KAY!: Vocal Gems (Gershwin). Side one with
orchestra. Side two with duo-pianists FRANK BANTA and CONSTANCE
MERLING. Merling was a noted pianist in lighter repertoire who died at a young
age in 1933. One ” lam. crk. (silent) side one, few minor rubs, cons. 2. $20.00.
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CALVIN COOLIDGE [Governor of Massachusetts and U.S. President]
1522. 12” Blk. Columbia Nation’s Forumn NF 7 [49761-4/36405-1]. LAW AND ORDER
(Speech)/PRINCE’S BAND. FATHER OF VICTORY (Ganne). Cons. 2. $15.00.
CLIFTON CRAWFORD [actor]. Edinburgh, 1875-London, 1920.
He was raised
in the Boston area in his later youth. His early attempts at a career included being a church
organist and a golf instructor. At the latter activity he would give musical monologues in the
clubhouses in the evening. He was eventually heard by someone connected to the stage and was
given a show business opportunity. As a result, he gradually worked his way up to being a leading
comedic actor the first two decades of the 20th century. He interpolated a reading of Kipling’s
Gunga Din in an appearance in The Tree Twins and it became a staple of his repertoire much as
Casey at the Bat was to actor DeWolf Hopper. During the run of a show in London in which he was
starring, Crawford fell or jumped from a fifth floor window of the Hotel Piccadilly.
1181. 12” Purple Pats. Victor 70028. GUNGA DIN (Kipling). Cons. 2. $15.00.
MARLENE DIETRICH [actress, singer]
3148. 10” Blk. Orth. Victor 22593 [BLR6034-II/6079-II]. FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN/
NAUGHTY LOLA (both Hollander). In English. Both from film “The Blue Angel”.
Just about 1-2. $15.00.
DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA
3653. 10” Blk. Orth. Victor 22528. RING DEM BELLS (Ellington-Mills)/THREE LITTLE
WORDS (Ruby-Kalmar). Fox trots from film Check and Double Check. 2. $8.00.
H. M. KING GEORGE V.
1764. 12” Blk. VT Columbia 55025-D [SWT959-1/SWT959-4]. THE SPEECH OF HIS
MAJESTY KING GEORGE V AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE TYNE
BRIDGE (recorded in the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead-on-Tyne, Oct., 10,
1928/WILLIAM SWINBOURNE [Town Clerk, Co. Borough of Gateshead].
ADDRESS OF WELCOME TO H. M. KING GEORGE V. Inner land area side one
features an attractive engraving of the bridge and the royal crest. Two internal
patina crks. side one should be harmless, one internal (inner land area) patina side
two, harmless. Otherwise 2-3. $8.00.
EDGAR A. GUEST [poet]. Birmingham, England, 1881-Detroit, MI, 1959.
His family
settled in Detroit in 1891 where, in 1895, young Guest began an association of sixty years with the Detroit
Free Press. He was first a copy boy and eventually a syndicated columnist to 300 newspapers throughout the
country. He authored over twenty volumes of poetry and was known as “the poet of the people”, a result of
the sentimentality and direct connection to everyday lives and experiences that his “folksy verse” reflected.
3473. 10” Blue acous. Victor 45258. IT COULDN’T BE DONE; WAIT ‘TILL YOUR PA
COMES HOME/MA AND THE AUTO (all Edgar Guest). Just about 1-2. $8.00.
WARREN G. HARDING [U.S. President/speaker]. Corsica (now Blooming Grove),
Ohio, 1865-1923. Harding was, until recently, considered by many to be America’s least effective
President. As a young man he had various occupations, including band leader, teacher, insurance
salesman and newspaper reporter. He eventually became a successful newspaper owner and
Republican Party enthusiast. He also had a “bent for declamation” and “looked presidential”, and
these seemed to be the two attributes, along with being easily malleable, that led him to the White
House after six years in the Senate as “an amiable nonentity”. His speeches were referred to by a
Democratic politican as “an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an
idea”. He was less than discreet about his on-the-side girlfriends and he was likely to follow the
wishes of various cronies who made use of him “for their own enrichment”. At one point, while
playing cards, he lost the White House china. His death occurred (some say he was poisoned)
before many of the scandals in his administration became public knowledge. It should be added
that the general public liked him, and nothing much came to their attention as to his own and his
administration’s problems until after his death.
1180. 12” Blk. Victor 35718. ADDRESS AT WASHINGTON AT OPENING OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR LIMITATION OF ARMAMENT, NOV. 12, 1921/
ADDRESS AT HOBOKEN ON RETURN FOR BURIAL OF 5212 AMERICAN
SOLDIERS, SAILORS, MARINES AND NURSES, May 23, 1921. Special label with
portrait of Harding. Recorded May 24, 1922. Few lt. mks., cons. 2. $12.00.
WILLIAM S. HART [actor]
2309. 12” Red Orth. Victrola 9297. LASCA (Frank Depres)/PINTO BEN (Hart). Just about
1-2. $30.00.
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GRACE HAYES [singer/actress]. Springfield, MO, 1895-Las Vegas, 1989.
A vaudeville
headliner, film actress (including Babes in Arms with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland), singer (whose hits
included I Can’t Give You Anything But Love and On the Sunny Side of the Street), and a famed Las Vegas
entertainer and night club owner. In 1950, she ran for Constable of Las Vegas Township against another
nightclub owner and lost by only eight votes. Her son was the actor Peter Lind Hayes (who also died in Las
Vegas in 1998).
4376. 10” Blk. Orth. Victor 22428. ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET (FieldsMcHugh)/EXACTLY LIKE YOU (both Field-McHugh). Just about 1-2. $10.00.
PAUL VON HINDENBURG. 1847-1934.
President of Germany, Hindenburg appointed
Hitler chancellor on January 30th, 1933.
3377. 10” Silver on Blk. Parlophon matrix Qu624-0. ERWIDERUNG ANSPRACHE … AM
NEUJÄHRSTAG, 1933 [REPLY SPEECH TO THE CHIEF OF THE DIPLOMATIC
CORPS, JAN. 1, 1933] Single-sided with fancy back, “etched” portrait of Hindenburg
and information that the record was issued to accompany the book “Unser
Hindenburg”. Concludes with band playing Deutschland über alles. Superficial
rubs, 3-4. Label bright and back perfectly clean. $50.00.
DE WOLF HOPPER [actor]
1130. 12” Blk. Orth. Victor 35783. CASEY AT THE BAT (Thayer)/O’TOOLE’S TOUCHDOWN [WITH APOLOGIES TO THE AUTHOR OF “CASEY AT THE BAT”]
(Desmond). Cons. 2. $12.00.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON [actor]. Philadelphia, 1829-Palm Beach, FL, 1905. Born of
parents in the theater, Joseph made his debut at
the age of four. After the death of his father in
1842, he became a full-time actor to help support
his family. He had his first major success in 1858
with Laura Keene’s Company in Our American
Cousin and was praised for his “naturalness and
spontaneity”. In 1859 he made a dramatic version
of the story of Rip Van Winkle and first gave it in
Washington and then in 1861 in Australia. He
brought a revised version of Rip Van Winkle to
London in 1865 where it ran for 170 nights. While
he appeared in other plays on occasion, it was his
tremendous success with Rip Van Winkle that was
the focal point of his career for his last forty years.
The public never tired of hearing him in this role.
How fascinating it is that we can still hear the
voice of someone born over 180 years ago!
3090. 10” B&S Columbia 1468 [take 2].
RIP VAN WINKLE: Scene in the
Mountains. Superb original
pressing. Few minor rubs, cons.
2. $35.00.
3091. 10” B&S Columbia 1469 [take 1].
RIP VAN WINKLE: Rip meets
Meenie. Few minor rubs, label a
bit off-center, otherwise a top copy,
cons. 2. $35.00.
DENNIS KING [b] [actor/singer].
Coventry, England, 1897-New York City,
1971. At home in both Shakespeare and
musicals, King made his stage debut in
Monsieur Beaucaire, London, 1919. He came
to America in the early 1920s and gained
great popularity in the Broadway musical
successes Rose-Marie (1924), The Vagabond King (1925) and The Three Musketeers
JOSEPH JEFFERSON
(1928). He repeated The Vagabond King for
sound film in 1930. Until his death, King
worked successfully in various mediums: stage, radio, films and television.
3173. 10” Blk. Orth. Victor 22263. NICHAVO! (Mana-Zucca)/IF I WERE KING (Coslow).
Just about 1-2. $20.00.
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Sir HARRY LAUDER [entertainer]
3614. 10” Blue acous. Victor 45207. A TRIP TO
INVERARY (Malarkey-Lauder)/HEY!
DONAL’ (Melville-Lauder). Few lightest
rubs, cons. 2. $8.00.
1724. 12” Purple Victor 70062. A WEE DEOCH AN’
DORIS (Lauder). Just about 1-2. $7.00.
1579. 12” Purple Victor 70117. THE LADDIES
WHO FOUGHT AND WON (Lauder). Just
about 1-2. $7.00.
1723. 12” Purple Victor 70122. DON’T LET US
SING ANYMORE ABOUT WAR, JUST LET
US SING OF LOVE (Lauder). Just about 12. $7.00.
1380. 12” Red PoW HMV D.1085 [Cc7073-I/ 8032I]. KEEP RIGHT ON TO THE END OF THE
ROAD (Lauder)/THE ROAD TO THE ISLES
[from Songs of the Hebrides ] (KennedyFraser). Cons. 2. $7.00
1379. 12” Red PoW HMV DB 4015 [2B3155-II/
3156-I]. HARRY LAUDER MEDLEY
(Lauder). Two sides. His last record, a
medley of his “hits”. Cons. 2. $7.00.
GERTRUDE LAWRENCE [actress and
singer]. London, 1898-1952.
3150. 10” Blk. EE Columbia 513-D [W141272-2/
141300-3]. POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL
(Coward)/BEATRICE LILLIE [comedienne]. SUSANNAH’S SQUEAKING SHOES
(Weigall). Both from “Charlot’s Revue of
1926”. Cons. 2. $15.00.
3149. 10” Orth. Victor 20331. SOMEONE TO
WATCH OVER ME/DO-DO-DO (Gershwin).
Both from musical “Oh, Kay!”. Piano acc.
by Tom Waring. Just about 1-2. $15.00.
POPE LEO XIII [1810-1903]. These two
recordings of the voice of Pope Leo XIII were made by
Gianni Bettini “at a special request of His Holiness, on
March 4 last [1902], it being the desire of the Pope that,
owing to his weakened and enfeebled condition and his
Sir HARRY LAUDER
inability to gratify the wishes of the different people
of the earth to visit him, that his voice be heard by the people throughout the world.” Columbia transcribed
these cylinders to a disc master in 1903. The disc was never commercially issued but may have been pressed
for “The Roman Lyceum Society” that presented as a lyceum entertainment the voice of the Pope (either via
this or the Bettini cylinders) along with photo slides of His Holiness showing “many interesting incidents of
his daily life”. Pope Leo XIII seems to go back further in time than anyone else who recorded (with the
exceptions of Gladstone and Tennyson, whose voices were captured on non-commercial cylinders).
3263. 10” Vinyl Columbia 1969-2 [M-514-1]. APOSTOLIC BENEDICTION; AVE MARIA.
Harmless edge crk. on blank side (only) into grooves less than ”. Never commercially
issued by Columbia. One harmless smudge. Cons. 2. $50.00.
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH [aviator]. 1902-1974.
First pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic
from Long Island to France in May, 1927.
3308. 10” Blk. Orth. Victor 20784. ACTUAL MOMENTS IN THE RECEPTION TO COLONEL
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH AT WASHINGTON, D.C. [UPON HIS RETURN FROM
FRANCE]. Two sides. While Lindbergh doesn’t appear on this record, it features
descriptive excerpts from various points in Lindbergh’s huge reception in Washington, D.C. as covered on the NBC radio network, 1927. Just about 1-2. $20.00.
4334. 10” Blk. Orth. Victor 20784. Same as preceding listing (item #3308). Spindle
markings on labels, minor lbl tear. Surface cons. 2. $12.00.
MC KINNEY’S COTTON PICKERS
3735. 10” Blk. Orth. Victor V-38118. ZONKY (Razaf-Waller)/IF I COULD BE WITH YOU
ONE HOUR TONIGHT (Johnson-Armstrong). Cons. 2. $15.00.
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Crowd gathering to purchase probably the first of AIMEE SEMPLE MC PHERSON’s two records
AIMEE SEMPLE MC PHERSON [evangelist]. Ingersoll, Canada, 1890–Oakland,
CA, 1944. McPherson’s colorful life as the major 20th century female evangelist and founder of the
“International Church of the Foursquare Gospel” has been documented in a number of books and films.
Her home base from 1923 was the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, a “megachurch” she raised money to
build. “It has a seating capacity of 5,300 people and was filled to capacity three times each day, seven days a
week.” While McPherson’s preaching was conservative, she made use of all technology then available to get
her message across, including the radio and a monthly magazine. Her death in 1944 was a result of what was
determined by the coroner’s report to be an accidental overdose of sleeping pills.
3076. 10” Blk. VT Columbia 784-D [W142791-1/142792-2]. I AIN’T-A GONNA GRIEVE
(Negro Spiritual)/COME UNTO ME (A Sermonette). Just about 1-2. $25.00.
3342. 10” Blk. VT Columbia 2627-D [W151860-2/151861-2]. THE LOST SHEEP’S
RETURN/THE CRUCIFIXION. Both with DAVID HUTTON, an actor and musician
whom she married in Sept., 1931. The record consists of chatter, Aimee telling of
her new love (David Hutton) and both singing. Despite the bliss she describes here,
they separated two years later. Rare short-lived issue. Few lt. rubs, 2. $35.00.
RAQUEL MELLER [Spanish popular singer]. Tarazona, 1888-Barcelona, 1962. An
international star throughout the 1920s and ‘30s, Meller created a number of Spanish song successes, such as
Padilla’s La Violetera. In 1926, she made a highly successful tour of the U.S. and appeared on the cover of Time
magazine April 26th of that year. Charlie Chaplin wanted her for his 1931 movie, City Lights, but they could
not come to an agreement. He did, however, make use of her hit, La Violetera, as a background theme through
the film.
3989. 10” Brown EE Spanish Odeon 203.072 [KI-961/962-2]. EL RELICARIO/LA
VIOLETERA (both Padilla). Lbl. stkrs. Superficial lt. rubs, gen. 3. $7.00.
ALEXANDER MOISSI [actor]
2068. 12” Red HMV DB 519 [596m/597m]. HAMLET: Monolog (Shakespeare)/PROMETHEUS (Goethe). Lbl. stkrs. Side one lt. superficial rubs, 2. Side two just about
1-2. $15.00.
MORAN and MACK [comedians]
4326. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 1652-D [W147458-2/147459-2]. TWO BLACK
CROWS IN HADES (Moran and Mack). Two sides. Mint? Just about 1-2. $8.00.
4382. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 1560-D [W146958-5/146970-6]. TWO BLACK
CROWS IN THE JAIL HOUSE (Mack). Two sides. Just about 1-2. $8.00.
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4383. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 935-D [W143602-3/143603-2]. TWO BLACK CROWS
(Mack). Parts 1 and 2. Just about 1-2. $8.00.
4384. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 1094-D [W144198-7/144467-5]. TWO BLACK
CROWS (Mack). Parts 3 and 4. Few lt. rubs, 2. $7.00.
4385. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 1198-D [W144975-3/144976-1]. TWO BLACK
CROWS (Mack). Parts 5 and 6. Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $8.00.
4386. 10” Blk. Viva-Tonal Columbia 1350-D [W145396-2/145235-3]. TWO BLACK
CROWS (Mack). Parts 7 and 8. Few lt. mks., 2. $7.00.
NIGHTINGALE.
Made by a captive nightingale in the possession of Herr Reich, Bremen.
3883. 10” Red ’12 Pats. Victor 64161 [7444r]. SONG OF A NIGHTINGALE. IMs. Just
about 1-2. $8.00.
General JOHN J. PERSHING [First World War Military Leader]
4029. 10” Nation’s Forum 69333/77666-2. FROM THE BATTLEFIELDS OF FRANCE/
Ambassador [to Germany] JAMES W. GERARD. LOYALTY (speech). Cons. 2.
$15.00.
TYRONE POWER, Jr. [actor]
1922. 12” PW (silver print) Victor 36404. THE BALLAD OF THE LEATHERNECK CORPS
(Herman Wouk)/BARRY WOOD
[b]. ARMS FOR THE LOVE OF
AMERICA (Irving Berlin). With
Orch. and Ray Block Choir dir.
Al Goodman. Just about 1-2.
$12.00.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY [poet].
Greenfield, IN., 1849-Indianapolis, IN,
1916. Known as both the “Hoosier poet” and
“the poet laureate of democracy”, Riley was
America’s most popular poet for generations. His
career began as a staff writer for the Indianapolis Journal and his verse contributions
established his fame.
1182. 12” Purple ’12 Pats. Victor 70078.
OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY’S
(Riley). Text label pressed on
blank side. Lt. scuffs, minor lbl.
scr., 2-3. $7.00.
1765. 12” Purple ’12 Pats. Victor 70079.
THE HAPPY LITTLE CRIPPLE
(Riley). Text label pressed on
blank side. IMs. Cons. 2. $8.00.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT [NY
State Governor, U.S. President].
Roosevelt was, at the time of the recording below
the Democratic candidate for Vice-President.
1527. 12” Purple Columbia Nation’s
Forum NF 20 [49871-1/49778-2].
AMERICANISM (Speech)/
COLUMBIA BAND. MARCH
(Reeves). Cons. 2. $15.00.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
SAVOY HAVANA BAND. Savoy
Hotel, London.
4468. 10” Plum HMV B.5027 [Bb7980-II/ Bb8111]. MASCULINE WOMEN AND FEMININE
MEN (Leslie-Mona-co)/PICADOR (Nichols). Side one cons. 2. Side two some rubs,
gen. 2. $8.00.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW [author, critic, speaker]. Dublin, 1856-1950.
Noted originally as a music, art and dramatic critic in London, Shaw went on to international acclaim as a
playwright. He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1925.
2064. 12” PW Linguaphone SH 1E/2E, 3E/4E [four sides]. SPOKEN ENGLISH AND
BROKEN ENGLISH (Shaw). Includes original booklet with full text. Amusing talk
1-2. $25.00.
with references to recording. Just about
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LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI [speaker]
1096. 12” Red Orth. Victrola 6725 [single-side]. SYMPHONY IN D MINOR (Franck): Outline
of themes with piano. Available for a short time to accompany Victrola Set M-22.
Cons. 2. $7.00.
GLORIA SWANSON [actress, here as a soprano]. 1899-1983
3147. 10” Blk. Orth. Victor 22079. SERENADE (Toselli)/LOVE, YOUR MAGIC SPELL IS
EVERYWHERE (Goulding). Just about 1-2. $15.00.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT [U.S. President, 1909-1913]. Cincinnati, OH, 18571930. After leaving the Presidency, Taft was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a responsibility
he continued until his death.
3255. 10” Blk. GP ’08 Victor 5557. OUR FOREIGN DEPENDENCIES [Puerto Rico, Cuba
and the Philippines] (Speech). Just about 1-2. $35.00.
3111. 10” Blk. ’08 Pats. Victor 16143. FOREIGN MISSIONS/OUR ARMY AND NAVY
(Speeches). Only form of issue (never issued single-face). Scarce. Few lt. rubs,
cons. 2. $35.00.
Count LEO TOLSTOI [author/speaker]. Tula Province, Russia, 1828-Astapovo,
Russia, 1910.
Born on his family’s estate of Yasnaya Polyana, Leo
was the youngest of four sons. After the premature
death of his parents he was raised by an aunt, and
upon her death in 1840 by another aunt. He was
educated at home by German and French tutors.
Entering Kazan University, planning on a diplomatic career, he studied Oriental languages and
then law, but left the University in 1847 without
completing a degree. He began writing after joining
the army as what was known as a “gentlemanvolunteer”. In 1852 a semi-autobiographical sketch
was published by the leading literary journal of the
day. It met with great success and led to his extraordinary career. His War and Peace “created a
fantastic out-pouring of popular and critical
reaction” and represents “a high point in the
history of world literature”. His second masterwork
was Anna Karenina.
3350. 10” Blk. HMV SR E158 [6878r/
3324e]. THOUGHTS FROM THE
BOOK “FOR EVERY DAY”
(Tolstoy)/H.E. THE CARDINAL
ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER. SPEECH ON (CATHOLIC)
EDUCATION. Both sides spoken in
LEO TOLSTOY
English. Matrix side one signed by
Tolstoy. Francis Alphonsus Bourne
(1861—1935) served in England as Archbishop from 1903 until his death in 1935. Cons.
2. $25.00.
4123. 12” Angel Gramophone Monarch 021000 [411s]. THOUGHTS FROM THE BOOK
“FOR EVERY DAY” (Tolstoy). Obviously these “thoughts” differ from the previous
record in English as he speaks here at least five times longer. This is an extremely
rare version in Russian. Beautiful copy, just about 1-2. $350.00.
CLARICE VANCE [entertainer]. Ohio, 1870-Napa Valley, CA, 1961.
Born Clara Etta
Black, Vance was a noted vaudeville singer. She was over six feet tall and had a voice that easily projected
over the vaudeville orchestras of the period. She frequently sang dialect songs and displayed a “radiant and
very droll wit”. She was married to Mose Gumble, head of Remick Music, but they divorced in 1914. Her next
husband, 16 years her junior, committed suicide in 1928 after his services as a film screen scenario writer were
terminated. Little is known of her after 1914. She was said to have appeared in small film parts. From 19441950 she lived in a “dilapidated wooden rooming house” in San Francisco and then resided in a Napa Valley
mental hospital from 1951 until her death. She was buried in the Potter’s Field section of the St. Helena
Cemetery in Napa Valley, CA. –Information primarily from Wikipedia.
4332. 10” Blk. GP ’06 Victor 4930. IF ANYBODY WANTS TO MEET A JONAH, SHAKE
HANDS WITH ME (Hoyt). Gen. 3. $8.00.
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3369. 10” Blk. ’12 Pats. Victor 17253
(5253/5153). I’M WISE (Williams)/MAY
IRWIN [comedienne]. MAY IRWIN’S FROG
SONG. Irwin (Canada, 1862-New York City,
1938) made her debut in a singing act with her
sister in 1874. By the early 1890s she had become a
leading vaudeville and musical theater singer. An
1896 film, also featuring John C. Rice, was made of
an excerpt from their 1895 stage hit, The Widow
Jones. It was just a lingering kiss, but very popular
at the time and the first filmed kiss in the history of
cinema. Her “buxom figure” and “charming
personality” helped her in sustaining a career that
lasted until the late ‘teens. Her wise investments
made her a very wealthy woman in later years.
–Information primarily from Wikipedia. Just about
1-2. $20.00.
VESTA VICTORIA [music hall star]
3338. 10” Blk. GP ’07 Victor 5183 [take 3]. POOR
JOHN (Pether). One tiny harmless lt. scr.,
one LGT. Bright label. 2. $15.00.
EDGAR WALLACE [author/speaker].
London, 1875-1932. Wallace’s first professional work
with words was as a war correspondent for the London Daily
Mail. He was also a poet/columnist for various other publiccations. The fascinating history of his early years is detailed
on the Internet in a lengthy Wikipedia article (from which
most of this information is taken). Wallace was one of the
most prolific writers of his period, particularly in his last
CLARICE VANCE
two decades. An often repeated joke was that when a telephone caller was advised that Wallace was busy working
on a novel, the caller replied, “I’ll wait.” In his last months, Wallace was employed in Hollywood, his final
achievement there being the original screenplay for the film King Kong. He died of diabetes, his poor health no
doubt aggravated by his “diet” of “over 20 cups of sugary tea and four packets of cigarettes a day”. He
constantly lived beyond his income since his early years and, despite his financial success later, died
considerably in debt.
3853. 10” Eng. Col. 5028 [WA7885/7886]. THE MAN
IN THE DITCH-AN EDGAR WALLACE THRILLER (Edgar Wallace). Read by the author.
Two sides. Few lt. mks., cons. 2. $15.00.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON [educator]. Hale’s
Ford, VA, 1856-1915. Born a slave, Washington was so
poor that even after the abolition of slavery he had to work,
beginning at age nine, in salt furnaces and coal mines. He was
permitted by his parents, when he reached sixteen, to quit work
and go to school, but they had no money to help him. He walked
200 miles to the Hampton Institute in Virginia and paid his tuition and board there by working as a janitor. After graduating he
taught at Hampton and then founded the Tuskegee Normal and
Industrial Institute. He became a noted orator and in 1895 he was
asked to speak at the opening of the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition, an unprecedented honor for an African-American. His
thesis was that blacks could secure their constitutional rights
through their own economic and moral advancement rather than
through legal and political changes. “A man who overcame nearimpossible odds himself, Booker T. Washington is best remembered for helping black Americans rise up from the economic
slavery that held them down longer after they were legally free
citizens.” [from various Internet sources.]
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
3262. 10” Vinyl Columbia 14605. Portion of
ADDRESS GIVEN AT ATLANTA EXPOSITION, 1895. Recorded Dec. 5, 1908. A
“personal recording” made by Washington for private distribution. This is one of a
very few pressings of this that were struck in the 1960s from the original metal
parts that were supposedly then destroyed. Just about 1-2. $60.00.
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ETHEL WATERS [singer, entertainer]
3368. 10” Blk. EE Columbia 14093-D [W140790-1/140792-2]. GO BACK WHERE YOU
STAYED LAST NIGHT (Easton-Waters)/DOWN HOME BLUES (Tom Delaney). With
Her Ebony Four. These Waters records seldom turn up in anything other than worn
condition. Few tiny LSSs. One small, harmless 1” rim patina side one. Some
superficial rubs, gen. 2. $30.00.
3311. 10” Blk. VT Columbia 14353-D [W146872-2/146873-1]. GUESS WHO’S IN TOWN
(Razaf-Johnson)/MY HANDY MAN (Razaf). Piano acc. James P. Johnson. An
absolutely remarkable copy. Seems to be mint. Just about 1-2. $50.00.
WOODROW WILSON [U.S. President, 1913-1921]. 1856-1924. Wilson was earlier the
President of Princeton University (1902-1910) and Governor of New Jersey (1910-1913). The recordings of
Wilson, Taft and others provide fascinating aural glimpses into American politics and history close to a
century ago.
2482. 12” Blk. Victor 35252. TO THE FARMERS/ON DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES
(Speeches). Bright copy, minor lt. rubs, cons. 2. $25.00.
KARL [VON] ZESKA [actor]. Hamburg, 1862-Hamburg, 1938. Zeska made his debut at the
Hamburg Concordia Theatre in 1879. He toured with various companies and in 1886 joined the German
Theater in Prague. From 1892-1932 he was associated with the Burgtheater in Vienna. He appeared in both
silent and sound films, although his primary work was on the stage. During his career he was recipient of a
number of awards.
4437. 7” Blk. Wien G&T 41225 [2523]. JAHRMARKTSCENE (Hugo Bock). Some sort of
celebratory scene, organ (calliope) in background. Tiny ” harmless edge crk.
Slightly roughish looking surface and minor warp but plays without problems. Gen.
3. $25.00.
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