[78-L] Composer Recording from 1923 Follies?

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Sat Jul 31 20:14:44 PDT 2010


> The ADBDiscography tells me that this is a Harry Reser group and it gives 
> the singers' names as Irving Post and Charles Sterling. This disc was 
> released on many labels and it would not surprise me if the names varied. 
> It also wouldn't surprise me if you have the Kaufman brothers there or 
> some other combination of usual suspects. Paul Charosh In a message dated 
> 7/30/10 6:12:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jraymond at alumni.princeton.edu 
> writes:I've come across a 1923 recording of "So This Is Venice," one of 
> HarryWarren's very first published songs, which was in the 1923 
> ZiegfeldFollies -- and the record is sung by a vocal duet credited to 
> the"Warren Bros." It's a long shot, I'm sure; but is it possible that 
> oneof the two singers on the record is the young Harry Warren? It's 
> Puritan 11299 (mx 1673), credited to "Earl Randolph's Orchestra." Anybody 
> have any thoughts on this?-- Jack Raymond
>
Both "Irving Post" and "Charles Sterling" were regularly-used "noms du 
disque" on
Pathe...?!

Steven C. Barr 




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