Broadway Musical Comedy: George Grossmith ~ Murders (1915)

British actor George Grossmith (1874-1935) / Murders / From the 1914 Broadway musical "Tonight's the Night" (Rubens) / Recorded: January 1, 1915 --

George Grossmith, Jr., British actor, theatre producer and manager, director, playwright and songwriter, best remembered for his work in and with Edwardian musical comedies. Grossmith was also an important innovator in bringing "cabaret" and "revues" to the London stage. "Tonight's the Night", an English creation about love in not so high society, opened Christmas week at the Schubert in New York.

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[althazarr]

Hey Doug, it's interesting how he sounds so pleasant and content while being so gruesome.

[CurzonRoad]

Hi Lloyd: Yes, weird.... as the saying goes, comfortable in his skin!

[tomfroekjaer]

Dough: you are really an absolutely expert on finding/uploading rare recordings ! Great ! Thanks, Tom

[CurzonRoad]

Hi Tom:

My pleasure!

Many, many, thanks!

Doug --

[robotics1x]

Wow. My grandfather used to recite the middle part about the organ man and I thought that was all there was for all these years. Tthe song is nearly 100. Thank you so much for publishing this.

[AndrewGilmore1986]

@rupepill It's called "dark humor."

[TheNickymhoward]

Thanks so much for posting this. He is my great grandfather and this is the first time I have heard his voice. I will pass the link around my family. Think I need to get the words from somewhere as it is not that clear on my computer. He may have been gruesome in his acting guise.... but not in real life and definitely not in the genes!

[jackpoint188]

I think Boris Karloff heard this song because he sounds so much like Grossmith in retrospect.

[paulostroff99]

Comfortable in his own skin is key to his lack of conscience-the proper word or term temporarily escaping my old and failing brain. A lack of a guilt feeling who can justify the most gruesome deeds as being mere trivialities.

[Bivolari]

Ghoulishly wonderrful.

[meltzerboy]

These all sound to me like justifiable homicides, especially the mother-in-law murder. Others that can be defended are the murder of a hack musical comedy actor and a hack commentator. Thanks for sharing, Doug.