[78-L] Aileen Stanley Jr. - Frank Croxton
Sean Miller
smille1 at nycap.rr.com
Sun Sep 18 07:18:17 PDT 2011
I have quite a few of her Thesaurus transcriptions I bought in a large group, still haven't played any of them.
Yesterday in a group of Lang Worths, I found "Frank Croxton" on one or two, these would have been 30s recordings, I think, issued later on the smaller discs I have, right?
Sean
On Sep 18, 2011, at 9:07 AM, L78rpm at aol.com wrote:
> I heard her sing on the Edgar Bergen (?) show during the run of his
> popular radio program. She was introduced as Aileen Stanley Jr. I do not recall
> what she sang. I do recall that I thought her performance competent, but
> in no way engaging.
>
> pc
>
>
> In a message dated 9/18/2011 8:45:55 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> dlennick at sympatico.ca writes:
>
> She made transcriptions in the late 40s for Thesaurus as Aileen
> Stanley..just
> to confuse things further, at a time when the company was also recording
> Irving
> Kaufman (the real one).
>
> dl
>
> On 9/18/2011 8:28 AM, Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
>> According to this and other sources, Jr. wasn't a daughter or even a
> niece.
>> Her real name was Chris Hernan.
>>
>> http://www.jazzage1920s.com/aileenstanley/aileenstanley.php
>>
>> From: David Lewis
>> I didn't know there was an Aileen Stanley Jr. In this 1949 DuMont Network
>> kine, "School House," she sings
>> "Chile Bean," a song that was a hit for Frank Crumit in 1920.
>>
>> http://www.archive.org/details/schoolHouse1949
>>
>> Tim Brooks has written about this show that in early television there
> was a
>> tendency to reach way, way back
>> for entertainment formats. This is positively prehistoric.
>>
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