[78-L] Leonore Vonderlieth alias on Cameo 963
Ray Kilcoyne
kil at roadrunner.com
Sun Jun 26 17:06:41 PDT 2011
Tim Brooks interviewed Robyn and has a lot of biographical information on
his own web site.
http://www.timbrooks.net/PDFs/robyn1.pdf
RayK
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From: David Lennick
Well, it was probably originally Rabinowitz. He's not in Gracyk's Popular
Recording Pioneers and doesn't rate a mention in Kinkle, but I remembered
him
living a very long life.
On 6/26/2011 4:55 PM, victrola78s at aol.com wrote:
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> Thank you, Prof. Lennick! Glad to have the info,& am surprised to hear
> William Robyn's moniker was not an alias :) Not much on him that seems
> definite that I could search, but the New York Public Library website
> lists an interview with a William Robyn that includes the years 1894-1996.
> If those are birth-death years, the guy made it to 102! Nice run, but it
> doesn't quite match Johannes Heesters, who was born the same year as my
> grandmother-1903. And still performs at almost 108, evidently.
>
> Dennis "Mere pup at 49" Forkel
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