A little tune to lift your spirits, on this beautiful spring day. Mary Dear, from “Honeymoon Lane” by Creamer, Dowling, & Hanley. Played via Welte-Mignon Reproducing Player Piano Roll. This roll, # 75262, was recorded in June of 1927 by Harry Perrella. Mr. Perrella, (1900-1939), was a member of the Paul Whitman Band, and several other bands. There is very little information about him, out there, but suffice it to say, he is one of my favorite Welte Artists. Played this afternoon on my 1921 6’2” Baldwin Welte-Mignon Reproducing Player Piano.  Please listen with headphones for best fidelity, and thanks for listening.

Mary Dear

Dol. Pauscher dir. unknown personnel; Lászlo Mocsányi and Tibor Lakos, v.

Radius M 516 mx. 14487

Prague, c. November 1932

Harlem Melody Band - Oh Monah! - 1932

Vic Quam dir. unknown personnel and vocalist (?)

MacGregor & Sollie Musical Library 395 mx. MS 2003

San Francisco, 1936.

Vic Quam & Orchestra -  I'm Building Up To An Awful Let-Down - 1936

Broadcast South Pacific 50th Anniversary WQXR 1999

Grenville Walker directing unknown personnel; Howard Barrie, vocal.

Columbia 1010 (matrix unknown - recorded by Trans-Air Broadcast Corporation)

1775 Broadway, New York City, June 21, 1932

Grenville Walker and his New York Knights - Living In Dreams - 1932

Etting Interview 1

A 1933 Rudy Vallee recording via OTR CAT dot com, of "I Hate to Think That You'll Grow Old, Baby" from the musical "Forward March".

I Hate to Think That You'll Grow Old, Baby

Vincent Price Cooking Lesson 3 - Small Boys

Robert Barlow, soloist, American Symphony Orch., Cond. Frederick Fennell, 1974. Dana composed a special, personal piece for orchestra and harp, dedicated to the memory of Casper Reardon.  Russell Bennett, who was also a friend of Reardon, orchestrated the short work for a radio broadcast on station WOR, New York.   The work was titled Coronach,  a Gaelic word for "A crying together."  Dana attended the broadcast on December 19, 1941.  The melancholy composition ends with a poignant, plucked single string on the harp.  It was Dana's musical way of saying farewell to a significant friend and colleague.

Coronach (Suesse) for Harp and Orchestra

Live performance from Indiana University on Sept. 26th, 1996.

Coronach (Suesse) for Harp and Orchestra

Peter Mintun

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