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……”Mr. Lawrence Tibbett sang “Hail Ye Tyme (of Holiedayes)”
final Tuesday and so they say it went gloriously.
I missed it. I hope you should utilize
the publicity. It will appear value
utilizing.
(December 26, 1935 letter from Gena Branscombe to Mr. Austin
at Arthur P. Schmidt Firm, Boston,
MA. – AP Schmidt Publishing Firm assortment on the Library of Congress)
Sure, the well-known Metropolitan Opera baritone, Lawrence Tibbett
(1896-1960) carried out Gena Branscombe’s Christmas tune, “Hail Ye Tyme of
Holiedayes” in December 1935. Whether or not on
radio or live performance shouldn’t be identified. Tibbett an
operatic baritone was additionally a star of films and sang on the radio. He has a Hollywood Star of Fame. And, he was the primary singer of his period who
was wholly American educated!
In her letter Gena asks Mr. Schmidt if he can use this
info for publicity understanding it might be value utilizing. To have somebody as well-known as Lawrence Tibbett
carry out one in all your songs and have that marketed may elevate curiosity and gross sales
of all of her songs and meaning royalties paid to the composer.
Frank La Forge was one in all Tibbett’s lecturers. La Forge was a widely known New York Metropolis trainer,
accompanist and coach. In 1917 Gena
instructed her writer, Mr. Schmidt, to ship a number of copies of her songs to
La Forge. Little question that’s how Mr.
Tibbett got here to know Gena’s songs.
The music world is a small world. What’s assumed to be solely six levels of
separation in life – within the music world the levels of separation are three or
much less.
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