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| | Billy Murray (singer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Murray's popularity faded with changes in public taste and recording technology; the rise of the electric microphone in the mid 1920s coincided with the rise of the crooners. | | | While he often performed romantic numbers and ballads which sold well at the time, his comedy and novelty song recordings continue to be popular with later generations of record collectors. | | | (Note: Some sources say that Murray did not, in fact, ever record the song; that the song was recorded by the quartet he normally worked with, but he was not in that session. |
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| | Billy Murray (singer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Murray's popularity faded with changes in public taste and recording technology; the rise of the electric microphone in the mid 1920s coincided with the rise of the crooners. | | | While he often performed romantic numbers and ballads which sold well at the time, his comedy and novelty song recordings continue to be popular with later generations of record collectors. | | | While he received star billings on Vaudeville, he was best known for his prolific work in the recording studio, making records for almost every record label of the era. |
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| | Billy Murray |
| | Murray isn't considered much of a jazz singer, but he made many records as a studio vocalist with several jazz and dance bands. | | | Until microphones were used for electrical recording in the 1920s, recordings had to be done acoustically by the use of a horn. | | | Murray recorded popular songs on a wide variety of different labels and brands of 78rpm discs and cylinders, including songs that are now considered to be classics such as "Yankee Doodle Boy," "In My Merry Oldsmobile," "You're a Grand Old Flag," "Casey Jones," "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine," and many others. |
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| | 2003 National Recording Registry - National Recording Preservation Board (Library of Congress) |
| | Billy Murray (1877-1954) was one of the most popular recording artists in the U.S. in the acoustic recording era. | | | Some of Murray’s best-loved and most popular recordings were of George M. Cohan's songs. | | | Considered by some to be the "King of the Delta Blues Singers," Johnson's emotive vocals, combined with his varied and masterful guitar playing, continue to influence blues and popular music performers to this day. |
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| | Billy Murray MP3 Downloads - Billy Murray Music Downloads - Billy Murray Music Videos |
| | Billy Murray was the most successful recording artist of the acoustic era of recording that stretched from before the turn of the 20th century to the mid-'20s. | | | Always as much a comedian as a singer, Murray moved into radio acting in the 1930s, though he took another fling at recording on the RCA Victor subsidiary Bluebird Records in the early '40s. | | | He possessed a penetrating tenor voice, a strong sense of phrasing and enunciation, and a comic style that overcame the sonic limitations of early recording. |
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| | Neil Murray |
| | The breadth of Neil Murray’s talents as a musician and songwriter are on full display throughout his new release. | | | Neil Murray first appeared in the early eighties as a founding member of the Warumpi Band which over three albums and twenty years of performing set alight contemporary indigenous music as a force to be reckoned with in Australia. | | | Elements of rock, country, blues and folk are present throughout this double CD which features tracks from his solo releases and on CD 2 live and previously unreleased studio recordings. |
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| | Murray not only negotiates a minefield of alliterative, tongue-twisting verbiage, but is genuinely funny in his efforts at exhorting the listener to join in. | | | Prior to the 1990s, Murray’s legacy was kept alive by acoustic era record collectors and students of the early history of the phonograph. | | | Further proof of Murray’s success was the willingness of the labels to have him record a wide stylistic range of material, including songs from Broadway musicals, sentimental ballads, comic fare, vaudeville sketches, ethnic and topical pieces, and more faddish items such as the jungle and cowboy songs then in vogue. |
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| | Thus, in the 1960s such singers as Joan Baez, Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan followed in Guthrie's footsteps and to begin writing "protest music" and topical songs, particularly against the Vietnam War, and likewise expressed in song their support for the civil rights movement. | | | This tune is also folk-like in character, and in fact is written in a traditional folk mode (modes are a type of musical scale); the mode of "Gilligan's Island" is ambiguous between Dorian and Aeolian. | | | The lyrics begin with the traditional folk device in which the singer invites his hearers to listen to the tale that follows. |
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| | Songwriters Hall of Fame |
| | Murray continued recording into the 1940’s with his last recording, the comic dialogue “Casey and Cohen in the Army” being released in 1943. | | | By the 1920’s, Murray was still successful despite the changing style and sound in American popular music. | | | Arriving in New York, Murray and songwriter Paul Dresser began plugging songs to phonograph companies. |
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| | Melody Lane 2 MP3 Gallery |
| | John was undoubtedly the most well known tenor singer of popular songs in the acoustical era, having recorded literally hundreds of beautiful records for the Victor Record Company, with whom he signed a contract which lasted through 1938. | | | Billy Murray (1877-1954), a great American, recorded hundreds of records for the Victor, Columbia and other labels through the acoustic era and into the electronic era. | | | Harry Lauder (1870-1950) was a Scottish comedian and successful music hall performer of renown, excelling at music and comedy skits on some of the first Edison cylinders and early gramophone records, mostly for the Gramophone Concert Record label in London, as well as for Victor Records in America. |
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| | Billy Murray |
| | To the Billy Murray enthusiast, or the early recorded music aficionado, the book is a must even at $75. | | | They include ratings of pioneer era recording artists, a Billy Murray discography, an analysis and commentary on selected recordings, and listings of archives and private collections specializing in Billy Murray and acoustic era recordings. | | | Finally, a comprehensive book about Billy Murray, the most popular and recognizable singer of the acoustic recording period! |
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| | Ernest Hare - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | The duo of Ernest Hare and Billy Jones can also be said to be one of the first performing acts to have "hit records," the quotation marks used to suggest the novelty of the notion in the earliest days of the recording industry, not to demean the business the pair.. | | | The duo of Ernest Hare and Billy Jones can also be said to be one of the first performing acts to have "hit records," the quotation marks used to suggest the novelty of the notion in the earliest days of the recording industry, not to demean the business the pair did at the sales counter. | | | The partnership of this baritone singer and a tenor named Billy Jones was exceedingly popular on radio in the '20s and '30s. |
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| | DRAM - View Note for Collegiate - Database of Recorded American Music |
| | The success of most songs, however, was dependent on their being performed publicly by leading singers and musical artists. | | | Vaudevillian George Whiting heard the melody, wrote the lyric, and introduced the song into his act, but it was not until Tommy Lyman, a well-known cabaret singer, began to sing it in New York speakeasies and on a local radio show that it began to catch on. | | | Motion-picture theaters engaged pianists, organists, and, in the major first-run houses, orchestras to accompany the silent films and to play the popular songs of the day, often as slides with lyrics were flashed on the screen. |
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| | What's Happening in June? ~ O'Connor Piano, MIDI Keyboard and Organ Studio |
| | The singer, daughter of Cissy Houston and cousin of Dionne Warwick, began her singing career at age 11 with the New Hope Baptist Junior Choir in New Jersey. | | | She had a total of 14 hits on the pop music charts. | | | He was a regular on the Shindig TV show in the 1960s; and recorded with The Beatles on the hits Get Back and Let It Be. |
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| | American Quartet |
| | This version of the American Quartet, with Billy Murray's distinctive lead, was among the three most popular quartets to make records in the acoustic era, the other two being the Haydn and the Peerless. | | | An agreement was reached and Murray's earliest credited Diamond Discs--"California and You," "I'm Goin' Back to Louisiana," and "My Croony Melody"--were released in the latter part of 1914 (he is on a few earlier Diamond Discs but is not credited). | | | In the summer of 1920 Henry Burr, not only a singer of sentimental songs but an ambitious businessman, approached Murray with a proposition. |
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| | Songwriters Hall of Fame |
| | Other female country singers of her day were trying their hands at hard-living, honky-tonk sounds, but it was the intense and piercing style of Kitty Wells, with her gospel-touched vocals and tearful restraint, that resonated with country audiences of the time and broke the industry barriers for women. | | | Ultimately, Wells’s great achievement was defying the accepted country music wisdom of her time, which warned that women don’t sell records and can’t headline shows. | | | Wells performed as the “girl singer” with Johnnie & Jack on radio shows as they traveled throughout the South in the early 1940s. |
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| | Sanctuary Classics - Product Details |
| | He recorded for virtually every major record company of the time and was one of the most versatile of singers, who could adapt to any style that was required of him, be it jazz, ragtime, comic songs, Broadway hits, love songs or patriotic tunes. | | | Here is the finest CD collection yet made of the record industry’s first superstar of popular music, Billy Murray. | | | A dozen were the No.1 records of their day, the title track being one of several patriotic George M. Cohan numbers (The Grand Old Rag. |
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| | Features » Recording of the Month » No Wedding Bells For Me by Bob Roberts |
| | Murray recorded it for Victor 5123 and Zonophone 742. | | | Over the next several years, Roberts was a popular singer of coon songs and other comic fare for Columbia, Victor, Edison, and Zonophone. | | | "No Wedding Bells for Me" was one such song that both Murray and Roberts recorded in competing versions. |
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| | New York Daily News - Big Town - Big Town Songbook: Ground floor |
| | Music charts were fragmented in the early 20th century, but based on sales of records and sheet music, Billy Murray was the top-selling artist in America from 1900 to 1920. | | | Some 169 of Murray's solo records made the charts, including 18 calculated to have reached No. 1. | | | At length, Edison signed him for two "coon" songs, "I'm Thinking of You All the While" and "Alex Busby, Don't Go Away," which were immediate hits in August 1903. |
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| | Popular Music and Society: Billy Murray: The Phonograph Industry's First Great Recording Artist - Review |
| | It not only highlights the life and career of a mysteriously unheralded yet immensely popular singer, but it also illuminates an American musical culture that used sheet music, audience singing participation, and nonamplified vocalization to dazzle and entertain. | | | University librarian and popular culture scholar Frank W. Hoffmann has joined forces with acoustic area record collectors Dick Carty and Quentin Riggs to produce this superb study on song stylist Billy Murray (1877-1954). | | | No other study rivals this extensive exploration of a pre-1930s audio figure. |
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| | American Variety Stage: Audio Sampler |
| | Written in 1917 and introduced by the famous singer Nora Bayes, this World War I hit became the anthem for America's war effort. | | | Recording for all the major record companies of the period--Victor, Columbia, and Edison--Murray's renditions of the era's popular songs on cylinder and disc numbered in the hundreds and sold in the millions. | | | Of all the "phonograph singers," none made or sold more records than Billy Murray. |
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| | www.tinfoil.com - 04/97 Cylinder of the Month |
| | Billy Murray recorded dozens of comic and popular songs for Edison for many years beginning in late 1903. | | | A popular song of 1908, sung by an equally popular singer. | | | Just over one year later, Murray records this great sequel in which our favorite reprobate, whose name has inexplicably changed to Joe Morgan, suffers terribly from "that awful dark song of last year"! |
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| | Aftermath USA: Over There - America's favourite wartime song |
| | It had its first public performance by a singer called Charles King in the New Amsterdam Theater at a Red Cross Benefit concert; a recording by the hugely popular singer Nora Bayes made it a national hit. | | | It was recorded dozens of times - notably by vaudeville star Billy Murray, and (more weirdly) by the opera singer Enrico Caruso. | | | Click here for a RealAudio version of the recording by Nora Bayes |
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| | WFUV 90.7 "The Big Broadcast" Playlist |
| | Billy Murray w/George Olsen Music, "My Papa Doesn't Two-Time No Time," George Olsen and His Music (Grannyphone LP) *** 5. | | | Billy Murray w/Jean Goldkette Orch, "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover," Jean Goldkette (RCA LP) ** 24. | | | Arthur Tracy, "Laughing Irish Eyes," The Street Singer (Good Music CD) 67. |
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| | Comments on 6258 MetaFilter |
| | Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit (yeah, I wish I could link to a recording of it) is the most beautiful, important, and timely recording ever. | | | The Billy Murray cited in this list was an early 20th century novelty and Irish-song singer. | | | A worthy song to get one's account canned over, methinks... |
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| | wamu.org : Programs : Hot Jazz Saturday Night : 05 : May 28, 2005 |
| | We heard it in an original recording from 1914 by the American Quartet (of which Billy Murray was one member), followed by a version by the Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra. | | | Then we heard from Harry Leader and his Orchestra for a version of the Ivor Novello song, "We'll Gather Lilacs," recorded in early May 1945 with a vocal by Jane Lee. | | | We closed the program with one more segment saluting veterans and the fallen by going back to hear the legendary British music hall song, written by Jack Judge and Harry Williams in 1912, "It's A Long Way to Tipperary." The song became something of the unofficial marching song of the British troops. |
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| | New CDs and Recently Published Books about Phonographs and 78s |
| | The sound quality is marvelous, and the booklet is superb--sheet music covers with Murray's photo, discussions of individual songs, a biography of the singer. | | | They may read that he made more studio recordings than any singer of the century, that his "White Christmas" sold more copies than any other record, and that he scored 368 charted records under his own name between 1927 and 1962. | | | My favorite cd among Archeophone's many titles is the new BILLY MURRAY ANTHOLOGY, with 30 tracks documenting the range of this singer's remarkable career. |
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| | Billy Murray is one of the most successful of all American singers of humorous songs, and probably entertains, through his records, a larger audience than any other singer who has ever lived. | | | His Irish songs, the rapid - fire type of comic song with no breathing places (Billy never seems to take a breath !), the topical song, popular sentimental songs and dialect specialties. | | | No matter what the line of work he undertakes it is sure to be cleverly done. |
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| | Musical Calendar for July 7 |
| | Remembered as the music director for singers Julie LaRosa, and Steve Lawrence. | | | He has continued to perform and record into the '90s for several labels. | | | 1909 "Lily Of The Prairie", - Billy Murray vocal with the Haydn Quartet |
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| | Music About Mexico and South of The Border |
| | The friars were delighted by the native reception to their music and placed a great emphasis on it thinking that the music and musical activities provided a way to attract the natives to Christianity. | | | His initial start in the music industry was as a singer and then as a lyricist. | | | The song was written shortly after prohibition was enacted and in some respects is a protest of that act (we plan on doing a feature sometime in the next few months on music related to prohibition). |
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| | Egbert Van Alstyne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Their first success was "Navajo" which was introduced in the Broadway musical Nancy Brown in 1903 and became one of the first records by Billy Murray early in 1904. | | | Their best remembered song is In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree from 1905. | | | After some time touring in Vaudeville he moved to New York City, initially working as a Tin Pan Alley song-plugger until he was able to make his living as a songwriter. |
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| | Catalogue » Billy Murray and The Heidelberg Quintet: Floating Down the River |
| | Thus, in July 1912, the Heidelberg's first offering was "Under the Love Tree." The difference is apparent; no longer do we have a lead singer who is "decorated" by the back-up quartet. | | | Two such numbers, "In the Gloaming" and "Stick to Your Mother, Tom," Oakland recorded with the American Quartet before the group formally coalesced into the Heidelberg Quintet. | | | Get ready for the most amazing harmonies and most intricately arranged ragtime vocals you have ever heard. |
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| | Catalogue » Titles By Year » 1905 - 1909 |
| | The Glow Worm (Lucy Isabelle Marsh, released 1907) | | | When We Are M-A-Double-R-I-E-D (Ada Jones and Billy Murray, released 1908) | | | Under Any Old Flag at All (Billy Murray, released 1908) |
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| | Billy Murray was one of the most popular singing stars in the world, and the first singer ever to make a living solely from recording. | | | Most of his recordings have been out of print since the mid-40s. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: 1916 in music |
| | August 24 — Léo Ferré, singer, songwriter and composer | | | July 24 - Bob Eberly, US singer with Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra | | | August 27 - Martha Raye, US singer and actress |
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| | as performed by Billy Murray, Fred Whitehouse ("The Record Singer"), Frank Crumit, and by George Schmidt of the New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra. | | | In the Bronx of New York City Lived a girl, she's not so pretty Lena is her name. |
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| | Lyric Records - MindSharer Article Archive |
| | Among those recording for Lyric Records was Vaudeville comedian and prolific early sound recording star Billy Murray and Harry Yerkes band featuring early jazz trombonist Tom Brown. | | | The sound quality is slightly above average for the era. |
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| | Novelty Songs - Fixture On The Popular Music Charts |
| | Novelty songs have always been a fixture on the popular music charts--and they probably always will be. | | | Spike Jones raised musical cacaphony to new heights in the 1940s while helping the nation to cope with the tensions brought on by World War II. | | | Acoustic era recording artists such as monologist Cal Stewart and singer Billy Murray built lasting careers around the release of a steady stream of comedy material. |
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| | AMERICAN GRAMOPHONE & WIRELESS Co. "Early Vintage Music Recordings" Cassettes |
| | Throughout the Twenties one of the GreatestNovelty Singers was Frank Crumit. | | | Some very delightful melodies and songs by Authentic Vintage Bands and Singers of the Spanish Speaking Nations. | | | Al Jolson had more hit songs during his career than most any other singer of the Twentieth Century. |
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| | Sunday, Billy Sunday, Billy (William Ashley Sunday), 1863-1935, American evangelist, b. | | | Sargent, John Singer Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, American painter, b. | | | Murray practiced law until the Revolution, during which he acquired a fortune, and in 1784 went to live in England. |
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| | Classical Net Review - Hits of 1920 - Whispering |
| | Well, oddly enough, he (or more specifically, the Funeral March movement from his Second Piano Sonata) makes a guest appearance in two songs about the Prohibition, which began in the United States on January 16, 1920. | | | 20 original recordings by Paul Whiteman, Al Jolson, Billy Murray, Eddie Cantor, Marion Harris, and others | | | Irving Berlin's "I'll See You in C-U-B-A" (sung here by Billy Murray, a comic singer in the style of Eddie Cantor) quotes the march's opening phrase to suggest the possible effects of consuming a little too much hooch during a drinking vacation in Cuba. |
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| | Hot Rod Lincoln |
| | THE HISTORY & EVOLUTION OF "HOT ROD LINCOLN" (revised Mar-12-2001) In 1905, Billy Murray, a very popular singer of the time, recorded the first known song about a car, "In My Merry Oldsmobile." It hit the charts on October 14th, eventually making it to the top spot, where it remained for seven weeks. | | | An MP3 by Tom Wayne (Tom Branch) (Rhett Wayne) rockabilly singer | | | Over the years, songs about cars, and car racing in particular, continued, as America's love for the automobile increased. |
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| | CATCH TWENTY TWO |
| | Including; Sheri Murray, Richard Murray, Billy Lee,Butch McCallister,Joe Cook,& Jerry Cook.Currently playing regional night clubs and recording songs for 2003 releases. | | | Use of this site is subject to certain |
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| | NPR : Barbershop Quartets, Present at the Creation |
| | Billy Murray and the Haydn Quartet sing "By the Light of the Silvery Moon." The group was making records for Edison Records as early as 1894. | | | He says that white singers "polished it up some, just like silver and gold... | | | A multimedia presentation by David Wright on the evolution of barbershop style |
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| | 1909 in music |
| | May 1 - George Melachrino English conductor singer composer (+ 1965) | | | "I Love My Wife But Oh Kid" - Billy Murray | | | January 16 - Ethel Merman singer actress (+ 1984) |
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| | IGN: Review of Star Trek: Enterprise Third Season Premiere |
| | Added to the music are some new flourishes that would only sound good to Billy Murray's old lounge singer character from Saturday Night Live. | | | I half expected to see someone in a puffy shirt brandishing some maracas to come out and cha-cha to the theme. |
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| | and is listed as the singer of the song in the film credits. | | | In 1905, Billy Murray, a very popular singer of the time, recorded the |
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