All Alone

This is not the song I expected when I pulled it out of the record cabinet. I was thinking that it was "All Alone, By The Telephone" as sung by John McCormack; but this is a delightful novelty song that would have fit well on the Vaudeville stage. It was recorded on April 5, 1911 by Ada Jones (Soprano), and Walter Van Brunt (Tenor). The original owners of this disc dearly loved it, and played it to death with old needles. The old Brunswick was making boiler room noises near the end of the song, but hey, it's authentic, it's educational, and it's free.

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Music

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• phonograph
• Vaudeville
• Brunswick
• Columbia
• music

[DavidN23Skidoo]

@ThePeaceableKingdom This song was quite scandalous when it was published, and probably was condemned from many pulpits!

[ThePeaceableKingdom]

I love this old naughty tune. They have another Jones / Van Brunt version and two others in the collection at USCB. I was disappointed to rent an old movie that featured "All Alone" in the soundtrack and to discover that it was not this one but another (and actually better known) song of the same name by Irving Berlin. Here the girl calls her boyfriend while the folks are out: "We'll have LOTS of kissing - Ma and Pa have left her all alone"