[78-L] Billy Murray/Starr Gennett Walo Of Fame

Craig Ventresco craigventresco at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 10:47:36 PDT 2009


Billy Muray was:
Cy Pitkin on one Edison ("Main Street") electric
Jack Tracey on at least 2 7" Emersons
also:
Murray and WScanlan records on dime store labels were also issued as being
by:
Marks and King (rare!)
Saunders and White (more common)

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> If I recall correctly, Billy Murray was called Cy Pitman on an Edison
> electric.  The title, however, escapes me at the moment.
>
> Bud
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Bill Knowlton
> Date: 09/18/09 09:53:49
> To: 78-L (2)
> Subject: [78-L] Billy Murray/Starr Gennett Walo Of Fame
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>  "Henry Burr was another one of those singers to recorded for at least a
> dozen different companies just as Billy Murray,Irving Kaufman, Vernon
> Dalhart did between the late teens and the late twenties".
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> I know this about Kaufmann, Burr and Dalhart, but what pseudonyms did Billy
> Murray ever use? (with a unique voice like that, how could HE use another
> name and get away with it!?)
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> BTW, the annual Gennett Walkway Of Stars in Richmond IN last weekend was a
> wonderful occasion. Ernest & Hattie Stoneman were doubly honored by their
> beautiful new plaque and amusical appearance by their surviving children
> Patsy, Donna and Roni (the "ironing board lady" on "Hee Haw.")
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> BILL KNOWLTON, "Bluegrass Ramble," Sundays: 9 pm to midnight (EST) over
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