[78-L] Master Bieling

[Craig Ventresco]

That's fascinating!
Those Bieling Days parties must have been something else.I know there are
home movies (silent?) from one of those gatherings.
Jim Walsh was such an interesting character. Have you met people in Vinton
who remember him?

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Don Chichester <dnjchi78 at live.com> wrote:

>
> John Bieling lived a few blocks from me when I was a kid in Hempstead, NY.
>  It was in his backyard that he and Jim Walsh and the Coney Island Gang has
> their annual picnic.  Only trouble was, I was too young to know any of this!
>  Also,
>
> vaudevillian George Shelton lived on my street (!) but a few blocks to the
> north.  I didn't find out about both of these folks until it was too late!
>  Today, I live about 7 miles from Vinton, VA, where Jim Walsh lived.  I see
> his house several times a week.  Again, I didn't move here until it was too
> late.
>
>
>
> Don (too late) Chichester
>
> > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:16:26 -0800
> > From: craigventresco at gmail.com
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Master Bieling
>  >
> > 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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