[78-L] Bert Williams Columbia cylinder

[David Lennick]

And guess what..Billy Whitlock (whose real name was William Penna, just to make 
things even crazier) recorded WHAT A VERY DREADFUL THING for Edison (13217), c. 
November 1904. He recorded it at least once later on for Edison Bell. Whitlock 
is probably best remembered for a tune called "Scotch Hot" which became "Hop 
Scotch Polka" in 1949..nice that he was around at the time.

dl

On 11/30/2011 10:26 AM, Mike Daley wrote:
> from the seller:
> I have played the cylinder and it is definitely an english voice with
> a slight 'london accent' , so I don't thik it is your american Bert.
> It sounds like either Bilkly Whitlock or Harry Bluff , english
> comedians who both recorded prolifically in the early days. The songs
> listed in the Columbia catalogue are all songs which I believe
> were part of the american Bert Williams' repertoire, so most likely
> this recording is Columbia capitatlising on William's fame even though
> there appears to be no other pseudonomous artistes listed in the
> catalogue of 1904. This was about the time when Whitlock started
> recording ( he recorded well into the 1930's ) so it is quite possible
> that when he started , he used this 'Bert Williams' name which of
> course at the time would have sounded like it could well have been a
> genuine name of an english comedian.
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:22 AM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>> Interesting that this English Bert Williams isn't in Rust's Music Hall book.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 11/29/2011 10:19 AM, Mike Daley wrote:
>>> Thank you. I've made the seller aware of this English Bert Williams
>>> and he is giving the cylinder a spin to check it out.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Birgit Lotz Verlag
>>> <Birgit-Lotz-Verlag at gmx.de>    wrote:
>>>> This is the Cockney Bert Williams of the London Palace Theatre. Most
>>>> recordings were made long after the "real" Bert Williams had returned to
>>>> the US
>>>>
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