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Columbia master 81975-5, rec. New York, 11 October 1924.
Sherman Kelly (tenor), Johnny Johnson (lead), Albert Johnson (baritone), and Beecher Davis ...
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Columbia master 81975-5, rec. New York, 11 October 1924.
Sherman Kelly (tenor), Johnny Johnson (lead), Albert Johnson (baritone), and Beecher Davis (bass).
Johnny Johnson's "Southern Quartet" first recorded for Columbia in 1921 (originally featuring George Kelly, Arthur Banks and Lemuel Jones), so they deserve a place of honour between a few other pioneering black secular groups recording before electrical recording was introduced. Because they were obviously influenced by the Norfolk Quartet it has been suggested that this group is also from Virginia, but as far as I know there are no hard facts to verify this (plausible) assumption. After a promising start there must have been some tensions inside the group, because no further record were made for three years. In 1924 a second version of the group recorded twelve more titles for Columbia, now also including some gospel sides and the one you are listening to. Then, again, nothing more for almost three years before two titles were published on "Black Patti" - does your pulse quicken as much as mine? Anyway, I doubt that I'll ever get the chance to hear those sides, if only to verify that this is indeed a Johnson group. If there is any information what became of them, I'd love to hear from you.
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Victor master B 13190-1, rec. Camden, 24 April 1913.
Will Oakland (countertenor), John Bieling (first tenor), Billy Murray (lead), Steve Porter (bar...
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Victor master B 13190-1, rec. Camden, 24 April 1913.
Will Oakland (countertenor), John Bieling (first tenor), Billy Murray (lead), Steve Porter (baritone), and William F. Hooley (bass) with orchestra accompaniment.
It has been said that Billy Murray's "American Quartette" was the vocal supergroup of its time, combining the finest singers from the most popular American quartets. So what, then, is the Heidelberg Quintet? For this is, in fact, the American Quartette, augmented by countertenor Will Oakland to form what might be considered the best original ragtime vocal ensemble ever recorded. Here, with a little help by an excellent arrangement courtesy of their friend, the composer George L. Botsford (1874-1949), you can hear what they were capable of when they were allowed to record what they wanted.
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Lied der Zeit master AM 1095, rec. Berlin, September 1948.
Horst Kraft (tenor) Peter Cornehlsen (lead), Michael Lengbauer (baritone), and Bruno Klen...
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Lied der Zeit master AM 1095, rec. Berlin, September 1948.
Horst Kraft (tenor) Peter Cornehlsen (lead), Michael Lengbauer (baritone), and Bruno Klennert Quartet.
Many collectors in western Germany will not touch Amiga records; they believe that anything on this label is just a rip-off of Western material to somehow appease the poor citizens caught in the GDR in the 1950s. While this may be (to a certain degree) be true for a small part of the 1950s output by this label controlled by the government of Eastern Germany, the fact is ignored that for the better part of a decade after the end of the war Amiga was Germany's best jazz and swing label, featuring lots of homegrown talent (and some American "imports", too!). After all, in spite of the former regime's efforts, jazz and swing had alway been popular underground music in Nazi Germany, and now the young musicians were finally free to record. Here, a quartet led by clarinetist Bruno Klennert joins forces with the Cornel-Trio, a group that was founded by Peter Cornehlsen around 1946 and recorded some really fine swing harmonies (OK, in the Fifties they recorded more and more of that corny stuff so much en vogue then, but on the other hand, who did not?) - think again before you pass a pile of Amiga discs at your local flea market in the future ...
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Favorite master 6290-t, rec. London, 26 October 1911.
Four unkown singers with piano accompaniment.
Favorite records are always worth checking out: m...
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Favorite master 6290-t, rec. London, 26 October 1911.
Four unkown singers with piano accompaniment.
Favorite records are always worth checking out: many of them are of high artistical standard, some feature very rare recordings by importat artists, and others are of great interest to ethnologists (anybody else know a company that recorded in Cologne, Zagreb, Nuremberg, Rio de Janeiro, Verona and countless other minor musical centres before 1910?) - this side is no exception to the rule.
I never heard of this group before, but I surely will try to buy anything I can get by them - for a European group recording before World War I the singers are wonders of precision and sure intonation. I had certainly not expected musicianship on that high level when I first played the disc.
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HMV master BT 5257-2, rec. Stockholm, October 7 1930.
Folke Rydberg, Åke Wedholm, Carl Winter, NN (voc) with Curtz's Trio.
One of biggest hits with t...
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HMV master BT 5257-2, rec. Stockholm, October 7 1930.
Folke Rydberg, Åke Wedholm, Carl Winter, NN (voc) with Curtz's Trio.
One of biggest hits with the Wiggers' participation - ironically also one of the few titles they recorded psedonymously. C'est la vie ...
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Danke für die Arbeit und für jeden einzelnen Clip auf Deinem Kanal.
Gruß aus Wien
Ed.
I´ve learned a lot about the time "before" the Comedian Harmonists. THANK YOU !