[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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