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How about a good ole serial?
Hide yourself underneath 1000 blankets and listen to records on the computer.
It's easier to click a mouse under a blanket than to move a turn-table arm. Unless you have a "snuggie" I guess.
You've heard George Jessel on at least one of my other uploads.
On this recording he's not really doing comedy.. just narrating. Reading from this book.
This record has 4 parts.


Part 1: 1904 To 1920 WHEN VAUDEVILLE WAS KING with the actual voices of Jimmy Durante, Smith & Dale,Georges M. Cohan, Harry Lauder, Fanny Brice, Nora
Bayes& Jack Norworth, Will Rogers, Enrico Caruso.


George Jessel
Show biz Part 1
RCA Victor (1953)

I appreciate the mention of Bee Palmer.

Next time:

Part 2: 1920 To 1929 THE ROARING TWENTIES
Part 3: 1929 To 1940 WHEN WALL STREET LAID AN EGG
Part 4: 1940 To Date FROM TV TO 3-D


Bonus: searching for any fun facts on this record led me to this unrelated blog which does however have a nice thing about Brittany Murphy and some old timey actresses.

Labels: history, spoken, vaudeville

Posted by: Kara Mae 1/04/2010 10:05:00 PM