OPERETTA - Early Recordings - 1907-1925.

Digital transfer by F. Reeder.
(see NOTES)


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Keywords: operetta; light opera; 78rpm; acoustic

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Notes

01 I Love You So - Waltz
from "MERRY WIDOW"
(Lehar)
Miss Stevenson and Mr. Macdonough
with orchestra

Victor Record (black; big Nipper) 5340
Recorded December 11, 1907
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02 Selections from
"THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER"
(Oscar Strauss)
Orchestra

Oxford Disc Record (purple) 4262
Recorded in January, 1910
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03 Italian Street Song
(from "NAUGHTY MARIETTA")
(Victor Herbert)
Lucy Isabell Marsh
with Victor Light Opera Company

Victor (purple) 60031
Recorded December 5, 1910
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04 Gems from "ROBIN HOOD"
(H.B. Smith - Reginald de Koven)
Victor Light Opera Company
Chorus, "Then Hey! for the Merry Greenwood" - Solo and Chorus, "Brown October Ale" - Duet, "Come Dream So Bright" - "Tinkers' Chorus" - Solo, "Oh, Promise Me" - Chorus, "Come Away to the Woods" - "Ho Ho Then for Jollity" - "Ye Birds in Azure Winging" - "Armorer's Song" - "A Hunting We'll Go" - "Ah! I Do Love You" - "Sweetheart, My Own Sweetheart" - "Love, Now We Never More Will Part"

Victor (black 12") 35413-A/B
Recorded in October, 1914
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05 Gems from "CHIN CHIN"
(Anne Caldwell - Ivan Caryll)
Victor Light Opera Company
Chorus "Happy New Year" - Solo and Chorus, "Violet" - Solo and Chorus, "Good-Bye Girls" - Duet, "Love Moon" - Chorus, "Ragtime Temple Bells"

Victor (black) 35440-A
Recorded March 5, 1915
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06 Gems from "MAID IN AMERICA"
(Sigmund Romberg)
(Produced in the Winter Garden)
Victor Light Opera Company
Chorus, "Doctor Baltimore M.D." - Solo, "Only for You" - Chorus, I'm Looking for Some-One's Heart" - Solo and Quartet, "Susie Ann" - Finale, "Oh, Those Days"

Victor (black) 35440-B
Recorded March 5, 1915
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07 Gems from "EILEEN"
(Henry Blossom - Victor Herbert)
Victor Light Opera Company (Conducted by the Composer)
Chorus, "Glad Triumphant Hour" - Solo, "My Little Irish Rose" - Solo, " Eileen" (Alanna Asthore) - Chorus, "Free Trade and a Misty Moon" - Solo and Chorus, "Ah, True Friends of Ireland" - Solo and Chorus, "When Ireland Stands" - Chorus, "The Irish Have a Great Day To-night" - Solo, "Ireland, My Ireland" - Duet, "Life's a Game" - Duet, "I Want to be a Lady" - Solo and Chorus, "Love's Awakening" - Chorus, "Thine Alone"

Victor (black) 35631-A, B
Recorded April 3, 1917
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08 Gems from "SHE'S A GOOD FELLOW"
(Anne Caldwell - Jerome Kern)
Victor Light Opera Company
Chorus "Some Party" - Tenor Solo "The First Rose of Summer" - Soprano and Chorus - "Jubilo" - Baritone and Chorus "Teacher, Teacher" - Chorus "I've Been Waiting for You All the Time"

Victor (black) 35694-B
Recorded June 12, 1919
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09 Gems from "SOMETIME"
(Rida Johnson Young - Rudolph Friml)
Victor Light Opera Company
Chorus "The Tune You Can't Forget" - Duet "Keep on Smiling" - Tenor Solo "Spanish Maid" - Soprano and Chorus "Sometime"

Victor (black) 35694-A
Recorded June 20, 1919
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10 "BLOSSOM TIME" Vocal Gems
(Arranged from the Music of Franz Schubert by S. Romberg)
Columbia Light Opera Co.
1. Let Me Awake 2. Only One Love Ever Fills The Heart 3. My Springtime Thou Art 4. Serenade 5. Song Of Love

Columbia A6209 (98002)
Recorded in 1921
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11 Selections from "BLOSSOM TIME"
(Arranged from the Music of Franz Schubert by S. Romberg)
Prince’s Orchestra

Columbia Exclusive Artist A6209 (98011)
Recorded in 1922
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12 Message of the Violet
From "PRINCE OF PILSEN"
(Luders)
Irene Williams and Mixed Quartet

Brunswick 2710-A (9051)
Recorded in 1922
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13 Toyland
From "BABES IN TOYLAND"
(Victor Herbert)
Irene Williams

Brunswick 2710-B (9062)
Recorded in 1922
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14 Drinking Song
(from "THE STUDENT PRINCE IN HEIDELBERG")
(Dorothy Donnelly - Sigmund Romberg)
Victor Male Chorus

Victor (black) 19550-B
Recorded in January, 1925
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15 Serenade
(from "THE STUDENT PRINCE IN HEIDELBERG")
(Dorothy Donnelly - Sigmund Romberg)
Victor Male Chorus

Victor (black) 19550-A
Recorded in January, 1925
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16 Gems from "THE LOVE SONG"
(Smith - Kunneke - Offenbach)
Victor Light Opera company
Chorus, "Yes or No" - Baritone Solo, "Only a Dream" - Tenor and Ladies Trio, "He Writes a Song" - Contralto and Chorus - "Love Song (Remember Me)"

Victor (Orthophonic black scroll [VE]) 35757-B
Recorded in 1925
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17 Homeland
(from the Musical comedy "LOUIE THE 14TH")
(Arthur Wimperis - Sigmund Romberg)
Victor Male Chorus

Victor (black [VE]) 19650-A
Recorded in 1925
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18 Gems from "THE STUDENT PRINCE IN HEIDELBERG"
(Dorothy Donelly - Sigmund Romberg)
Victor Light Opera Company
Chorus, "Student's Marching Song" - Tenor and Baritone, "Golden Days" - Chorus, "Serenade" - Soprano and Tenor, "Deep in My Heart' - Chorus, "Drinking Song"

Victor (Orthophonic black scroll [VE]) 35757 -A
Recorded in 1925

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Reviewer: Doc Murph - - June 19, 2012
Subject: Impeccable Music from an era of manners
These recordings have been transferred without flaw. The performance are without peer. This was a wonderful era of American showmanship via the Operetta. I wonder if such class can be returned to the stage today? Thank you for sharing these immortal performances.

Reviewer: mtas grandad - - October 29, 2010
Subject: Beautiful Music
This is an excellent collection of digitally remastered original recordings that have recaptured the original quality of the shows. The musicals have been written by masters of their trade and since never bettered.
Listen and enjoy.

Reviewer: the_sister - - June 26, 2010
Subject: fun to reminisce
I'm enjoying hearing these as I work - recalling hearing them and similar ones as kids. Thanks, bro.