[78-L] Ronald Frankau q

[David Lennick]

There's a photo of him on the Alice in Wonderland LP (Canadian Capitol, 
probably had a British equivalent) and he's a baldie....like an egg!

http://www.musichallcds.com/var4_page.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Frankau

Lots of film appearances, so maybe there just wasn't time for recording.
http://www.citwf.com/person180439.htm

dl

davdieh at aol.com wrote:
>  Yes, B9321 is from what appears to be his last recording session. He continued to appear on stage and in films. It is strange that such a prolific recording personality should suddenly abandon the medium; a most inexplicable eggsit.
> David Diehl
> 
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>  
> -----Original Message-----
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> 
> I haven't been following the Ronald Frankau discussion closely but I see he 
> appears on HMV's : B9246, B9267 and B9321
> ?
> RB
> 
> --- On Sat, 2/5/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Ronald Frankau q
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, 2 May, 2009, 5:44 PM
> 
> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>> Talk about "disappearing" a guy..the 1950 Parlophone
> catalogue doesn't 
>>> list him
>>> at all and the 1948 HMV catalogue has only the "Alice in
> Wonderland" set 
>>> where
>>> he played Humpty Dumpty. If he recorded for anyone, it wasn't for
> EMI.
>>> dl
>> After the strain of playing Humpty Dumpty,  no doubt the poor guy just 
>> cracked.
>>
>> Taylor
>>
> Apparently he was just a shell of his former self....that's a yolk, son.
> 
> dl
>