[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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