[78-L] Fougere on Record

[David Lewis]

As nothing was forthcoming from this thread, I would like to share a few more details. Eugenie Fougere was a dancer and singer, and precisely becauseshe was a dancer I suspect that her singing voice may not have been up to snuff for purposes of recording. And I haven't encountered her name in Americanrecording rolls from 1894-1910, the latter date being about when she retired. However, I was thinking she may have recorded in France or Germany whereshe was also popular. Her big song was Joseph E. Howard's "Hello Ma Baby;" she was filmed singing it by American Mutoscope & Biograph in 1899. Of course,if she had done it with the Edison company you might inquire as to whether a recording was made at the same time, as was the case in a few known instances.But AM&B was not in the record business, sorry to say. 

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