victor

Alfred A. "Al" Bernard (1888-1949) was an American vaudeville singer, known as "The Boy From Dixie", who was most popular during the 1910s through early 1930s. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Bernard became a blackface singer in minstrel shows before starting his recording career around 1916.   Bernard composed and recorded more than 100 songs in the first three decades of the 20th century.   He was one of the first white singers to record blues songs.   W. C. Handy credited Bernard with helping his own career by recording a number of his songs, notably "St. Louis Blues".  Bernard recorded the song for nine different record labels, the most successful being what Handy called "the sensational Victor recording in which he sang with the Dixieland Jazz Band". For a brief period in the early 20's Bernard was teamed with Jimmy Durante and wrote the lyrics for "Papa String Bean" for Durante.  He teamed up with the ragtime composer J. Russell Robinson in a vaudeville team called the Dixie Stars and they recorded songs together for a number of famous labels.  Bernard usually sang while Robinson played the piano and added some vocals. Together they composed a number of hit songs including "Blue Eyed Sally" and "Let Me Be The First To Kiss You Good Morning".   Excerpted – [1] [2]

see

This is William Robinow (1894?-1996) [i.e. William Robyn] (pronounced ROW-BINE), birth name (in Latvia) William Rubin, also known as Willie Robyn and toured at the time of his first auditions (trials) with Victor and Emerson in 1918 as Wolf Scarpioff. [1] Robyn was a tenor singer who toured the vaudeville circuit and made hundreds of recordings. He recorded first for Emerson, but then for Columbia, Pathe, Okeh, Brunswick, Victor and approximately 50 other labels. [2] [3] Willie Robyn A Recording Artist in the 1920s A lengthy (and fascinating) interview taped with William Robyn by Tim Brooks in 1977 when Robyn was 80 years of age. www.timbrooks.net/PDFs/robyn1.pdf Two recordings of William Robinow [i.e., William Robyn] are available in the National Jukebox at The Library of Congress. Robyn used more than fifty pseudonyms while he was performing in vaudeville and recording between 1919 and 1931: [3] SUBJ AUTH Robyn, William, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Bennett, Bert, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Brown, Tom, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Conroy, Frank, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Conroy, Fred, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Crane, Thornely, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Ender, Jack, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Foster, Al, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Franklin, Fred, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Gravelle, Buddy, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Hamilton, Edward, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Hamilton, Ray, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Mack, Bobby, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Manning, John, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Norton, Walter, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Powell, Ray, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Powell, Roy, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Ray, Walter, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Robinow, William, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Robinson, William, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Robyn, Willie, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Ruban, George, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Rubin, William, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Rubinoff, Mario, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Rubinoff, William, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Scarpioff, William, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Scarpioff, Wolf, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Scott, Henry, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Shaw, Eddie, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Smith, Harry, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Spear, John, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Stanley, William, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Waters, Frankie, 1894-1996 SUBJ S FRM Wee Willie, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Allison, James, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Bolton, Jamie, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Clarke, Walter, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Forsythe, Reg, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Francis, William, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Hart, Charles, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Henderson, Larry, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Henry, Lawrence, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Hillman, Bob, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Johnson, Al, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Lee, Albert, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM O’Shea, Allen, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM O’Shea, John, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Playman, Edmund, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Remick, Walter, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Richards, Edgar, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Richards, Walter, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Rickman, Eddie, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Roberts, Billy, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Roberts, Lewis, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Robin, Wyllie, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Thomas, Brian, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Turner, Ray, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Weston, Les, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM White, Jerry, 1894-1996. SUBJ S FRM Young, Louis, 1894-1996.

Wikipedia article. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Robyn

Thanks Flickr Foundation, we somehow missed Pixel Wrangler's update previously. We'll update Mr. Robyn (Robinow)'s catalog records.