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Billy Murray Scrapbook Related Articles:
Edison cylinder record
catalog supplements from May 1911 and November 1910. Surrounding Ada Jones is the Premier Quartet, also known as the American Quartet on
Victor.
Write-up for Victor 16291, from New Victor Records (May 1909). This was the only credited Victor issue by Edward Meeker (he also performed anonymously with the Victor Minstrels on Victor 16553)—an otherwise loyal Edison employee for three decades. (AMM)
Billy Murray's 1916 Victor records catalog blurb used a much earlier photo, probably taken at the same time as the shot used for the 1911 Edison supplement. (MSP)
Victor's
marketing department liked to pose their artists in "real-life"
Another
"real-life" shot, from New Victor Records
Billy Murray as gardener, from New Victor Records for April 1921. (AMM)
Murray
was a devoted baseball fan, and legend has it that he skipped
One
of the last ads for Murray as a freelance artist before
The
Talking Machine World announced Murray's exclusive Victor
An
early 1920 ad for the Peerless Record Makers, soon to be renamed the
Billy Murray traveled with the Eight Famous Victor Artists from coast to coast,
Comedienne
Aileen Stanley teamed with Murray on records after Ada Jones'
Murray
was featured in an
August 1925 promotional folder
After
leaving Victor in 1928, Murray freelanced with his old protégé, Walter
Van Brunt.
Murray
and Van Brunt (Scanlan) teamed with comedienne Marcella Shields Document History: Initial posting 11/7/2006. Version 2 (current) posted 1/26/2007. Anna-Maria
Manuel chairs the Outreach Committee of the Association
for Recorded Sound Collections. She is the co-author of Billy
Murray on the Radio and a major contributor to Cakewalks,
Rags and Novelties and other Mainspring Press projects. |
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