1933 ROYAL BLUE COLUMBIA 2803 George Olsen Music This Time Love Bless Your Heart
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A series of great JAZZ Blues and R&B Records from early Ragtime to Beb-Bop on 78 rpm Victrola Records
More great Jazz and Vocal Records in my other listings!
Bless your heart Fox trot
Milton Drake (lyricist)
Harry Stride (composer)
Duke Enston (composer)
This time it's love Fox trot
Sam M. Lewis (lyricist)
J. Fred Coots (composer)
Joe Morrison (vocalist)
George Olsen and his Music (Musical group)
George Olsen (leader)
Description: Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
8/18/1933 New York, New York Columbia 2803-D
Orig Issue ROYAL BLUE COLUMBIA
10" 78 rpm record
Condition:
VERY GOOD PLUS PLUS, only hint of greying but rubbed, plays E very quiet occ ticks
A GREAT COPY
A Connecticut Yankee is a musical based on the 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by American writer Mark Twain. Like most adaptations of the Twain novel, it focuses on the lighter aspects of the story. The music was written by Richard Rodgers, the lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and the book by Herbert Fields. It was produced by Lew Fields and Lyle D. Andrews. It enjoyed an original run on Broadway in 1927 of 421 performances and a number of revivals.
The 1931 film of the same name starring Will Rogers was not adapted from this musical, nor was the 1949 musical film A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, which starred Bing Crosby. The Rodgers and Hart Connecticut Yankee, like many of the team's earlier musicals, has never been filmed for the big screen though a scene was staged for the 1948 biographical movie of the lives of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Words and Music.
Fran Frey (December 23, 1903 in Indiana - December 1, 1962 in California) was a singer[1][2] and saxophonist best known for his work for George Olsen and His Music in the 1920s and early 1930s.[3] Among his better known songs are "The Varsity Drag" of 1927;[4] "Big City Blues" of 1929, and "A Garden in the Rain", also of 1929. Frey sang on 77 songs with the George Olsen band on recordings and on the radio.[5] "Who?" sold more than a million copies.[6][7]
Frey was heard on the Oldsmobile Program on CBS radio in 1933.[8]
Although he played for several other bands after Olsen's, including Victor Young's,[9] he never achieved the level of fame he had in earlier years.[10][11]
Frey died of a heart attack in his home on December 2, 1962 at the age of 58. At the time of his death, he was writing music for the Ice Capades and for Columbia Pictures.
[ George Olsen Orch ]
b. March 18, 1893, Portland, OR, USA, d. March 18, 1971, Paramus, NJ, USA. (his 78th birthday)
Theme Song: "Beyond the Blue Horizon"
Here's a view of the 1920s Olsen band (courtesy of Mr. Leonard Schwartz - all rights reserved), - one of the better bands working in the '20s. Olsen played all over the U.S.
Like many others, the band was formed in a University (of Michigan), but unlike the others, this band made it to Broadway and the Big Time, playing in the Theater 'pits' of many musicals. The Band put on a sensational Vaudeville show. The 1926 Olsen Orchestra had such members as George Olsen: violin, Red Pepper:trumpet, Chuck Campbell:trombone, Dick Stable:clarinet and alto sax, Ed Killfeather:piano, Jack Hansen:Tuba, and others unknown. Interestingly, George Olsen was the band on Jack Benny's first radio program for Canada Dry, - about 1932. A 1933 recording, "There's a Cabin in the Pines" , featured vocalist Lorette Lee.
The band featured two great singers in Fran Frey (male) a baritone (ca. 1989, I heard him mentioned as music director of a Chicago radio station), and Ethel Shutta (female), who later became Mrs George Olsen. Here's a photograph of George and wife Ethel, with their two sons, - in happier days. " Ethel, was his wife for many years, -from the Ziegfield Broadway show, 'Whoopee' until the late 1930s, when they divorced and she married George Kirksey, a sports writer for (I think) NEA.
VIDEO:"Stetson" Here's a wonderful film clip from the screen version of the hit Broadway show "Whoopee!" (starring Eddie Cantor. The song "Whoppee" was composed by Walter Donaldson, lyrics Gus Kahn). Now let's watch Ethel Shutta, Olsen's wife, singing and dancing to the tune "Stetson" , with the Goldwyn Girls doing a precision dance routine.
Unfortunately, the band seemed to lose it's spirit and vitality in the 1930s, and disappeared with the coming of the Big Band Swing era. In the mid-1930s, when another bandleader, Orville Knapp, was killed, Olsen took over leadership of the Knapp band, (and added the new 'tag': "The Music of Tomorrow") but he had no good success with it. On May 17, 1940, the Olsen orchestra appeared on the stage of The Lyric Theatre of Indianapolis (Indiana), with 'The Bachelors' vocal group, consisting of Bob Rice, Ronnie Mansfield, and Jack Clifford.
Ethel Shutta, went on to work as a 'single' in the supper clubs before retiring. In 1971, she was again seen on stage in Stephen Sondheim's "Follies" , while Olsen went on to 'conduct' a restaurant in New Jersey (ca. 1941) where the background music was his own recordings.
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