[78-L] Master Bieling

[Craig Ventresco]

It was indeed John Bieling, but he was all grown up and singing on Haydn
Quartette records when this was issued. Victor took advantage of his high
tenor for that particular recording, I suppose.
There was a Byron G. Harlan record called "I've Got My Fingers Crossed, You
Can't Touch Me" that was advertised as featuring a chorus of childen. That
could be the earliest issued record featuring child singers (Columbia
version features the children's chorus. Not sure about the Edison , etc).
This would have been from around 1906.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:07 PM, <banjobud at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> At one time I had a 7" Monarch recording of "Hello Central, Give Me
> Heaven."  The artist inscribed on the label was Master Bieling.  Could this
> indeed be John Bieling singing when he was a lad?  If so, this may be the
> oldest recording of a child singer.
>
> Bud
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