[78-L] 78-era necrology

[Royal Pemberton]

Enrico Caruso (1921)
Leon 'Bix' Beiderbecke (1931)

On 1/27/18, Harold Aherne <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> It really depends on how you define "height" of someone's career. Some of
> the people I'm naming hadn't recorded for a few years at the time of their
> deaths,
> and some 19th century opera stars were already past the prime of their
> careers when they were first comitted to wax. But anyway:
>
> Roger Harding (1901)
> Frank Banta Sr. (1903)
> Dan Leno (1904)
> Francesco Tamagno (1905)
> Will F. Denny (1908)
> George Walker (1911)
> Harry Fragson (1913)
> George W. Johnson (1914)
> Lillian Nordica (1914)
> Pol Plançon (1914)
> Len Spencer (1914)
> Dave Montgomery (1917)
> Nat M. Wills (1917)
> William F. Hooley (1918)
> James R. Europe (1919)
> Cal Stewart (1919)
> George Gaskin (1920)
> Ada Jones (1922)
> Bert Savoy (1923)
> Reed Miller (1923)
> Edna Hicks (1925)
> Paul Biese (1925)
> Bert Ralton (1927)
> Nora Bayes (1928)
> Joe T. Schenck (1930)
>
> The following artists also died during the 78 era (sometimes even before
> electrical recording), although it had been some time since they had made
> any records:
>
> Ada Rehan (1916)
> Adelina Patti (1919)
> Ralph C. Herz (1921)
> Bob Roberts (1930)
> Gene Greene (1930)
> George MacFarlane (1932)
> Arthur Collins (1933)
> John Yorke Atlee (1933; often misreported as 1910)
> Edward M. Favor (1936)
> Grace Kerns (1936)
> Byron Harlan (1936)
> Dan W. Quinn (1938)
> Eddie Morton (1938)
>
> Is this what you're looking for? Too little, too much?
>
> --HA
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Wed, 1/24/18, Rodger Holtin <rjh334578 at gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>  Subject: [78-L] 78-era necrology
>  To: "78-List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>  Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 12:05 AM
>
>
>  Apologies if we've done this before and
>  I don't remember it, but have we
>  attempted a list of those recording
>  folks who died at (or near) the height
>  of their careers during the 78 Era?
>
>
>
>  Here are a few that pop to mind
>
>  Beiderbecke, Bix
>
>  Berigan, Bunny
>
>  Bernie, Ben
>
>  Berry, Chu
>
>  Blanton, Jimmy
>
>  Bowly, Al
>
>  Caruso, Enrico
>
>  Christian, Charlie
>
>  Clark, Buddy
>
>  Colombo, Russ
>
>  Coon, Carlton
>
>  Duchin, Eddy
>
>  Gershwin, George
>
>  Kapell, William
>
>  Kemp, Hal
>
>  Knapp, Orville
>
>  Lang, Eddie
>
>  Lunceford, Jimmie
>
>  Miley, Bubber
>
>  Miller, Glenn
>
>  Mills, John
>
>  Moten, Bennie
>
>  Murray, Don
>
>  Parker, Charlie
>
>  Ragas, Henry
>
>  Rodgers, Jimmie
>
>  Rogers, Will
>
>  Savitt, Jan
>
>  Stanley, Frank
>
>  Teschmacher, Frank
>
>  Valentino, Rudolph
>
>  Waller, Fats
>
>  Webb, Chick
>
>  Williams, Bert
>
>  Williams, Hank
>
>  Zurke, Bob
>
>
>
>
>
>  Surely I'm missing somebody.
>
>
>
>  Rodger Holtin
>
>  Henderson, TN
>
>
>
>  For best results use Victor Needles
>
>
>
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