E BERLINER Gramophone 7" Record 0747 SH Dudley Continuous Performances The Ameer
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E Berliner gramophone 7” record
Condition: scratches, dents and smudges. Untested. Sold as is.
On the label, the word continuous is spelled without the “u”. I love how they fixed the mistake by placing an arrow where the “u” was supposed to go and putting the “u” above the word.
Title: Continuous Performances From "The Ameer"
Victor Herbert's musical show "The Ameer" was popular at the time this was recorded.
Singer: S. H. Dudley
Berliner 0747
November 18, 1899
Samuel Holland Rous (the singer's real name) was born on January 15, 1864.
As a recording artist he used the name S. H. Dudley and, less frequently, Frank Kernell.
He may have been the most popular baritone to record at the turn of the century, his output by 1900 exceeding that of baritone J. W. Myers.
Dudley was in the right place at the right time in that his voice suited the crude recording devices of the time better than most. As a featured solo artist he was in studios regularly from 1898 to 1904, after which there is a noticeable drop-off.
The singer adopted the name S. H. Dudley as a stage name early in his career, and this is the name used for most of his Berliner, Victor, and Edison records.
From mid-1899 onward the shorter "S. H. Dudley" was used on records. On a few Victor discs, he is identified as Frank Kernell,
He became important as baritone for the Edison Quartet and Haydn Quartet. Dudley's signature is etched in several Berliner discs of the Haydn Quartet, and he added the word "manager" after his name (an example is 021, "Nearer My God To Thee," recorded on March 23, 1899).
The earliest known discs to feature Dudley as a solo artist are Berliners from 1898, perhaps the first being "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (157), cut on June 10, 1898
Dudley died in Los Angeles on June 6, 1947.
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