VERNON DALHART & CARSON ROBISON My Blue Mountain Home (1927) - 78 RPM Record

Описание: Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robison – My Blue Mountain Home
Duet with violin, banjo, guitar and harmonies
Written by Carson Robison
78 RPM audio transfer

Label: Victor 20539
Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
Recorded: March 9, 1927
Released: 1927
Genre: Folk & Country
Style: Hillbilly Country
The recording on the other side of this disc: Golden Slippers

Musicians:
Vernon Dalhart - vocals, harmonica
Carson Robison - vocals, guitar
Murray Kellner - violin
William Carlino - banjo

Marion Try Slaughter, better known by his stage name Vernon Dalhart, was born April 6, 1883 in Jefferson, Texas. He was American country music singer and songwriter. He took his stage name from two towns, Vernon and Dalhart in Texas, between which he punched cattle as a teenager in the 1890s. Dalhart's father, Robert Marion Slaughter, was killed by his brother-in-law, Bob Castleberry, when Vernon was age 10. When Dalhart was 12 or 13, the family moved from Jefferson to Dallas, Texas. In the 1920s and 1930s, he sang on more than 5000 singles (78s) for many labels, employing more than 100 pseudonyms, such as Al Craver, Vernon Dale, Frank Evans, Hugh Lattimer, Sid Turner, George White (with original Memphis Five) and Bob White. On Grey Gull Records, he often used the name "Vel Veteran", which was also used by other singers, including Arthur Fields. Dalhart had a huge hit with his 1924 recording of "The Wreck of the Old 97". It was the first country song to sell one million copies. Dalhart died, aged 65, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on September 14, 1948.

Carson Jay Robison was born August 4, 1890 in Oswego, Kansas. He was an American country music singer and songwriter who played a major role in promoting country music in its early years through numerous recordings and radio appearances. He was also known as Charles Robison and sometimes composed under the pseudonym, Carlos B. McAfee. His father was a champion fiddler; his mother played the piano and sang. Robison became a professional musician in the American Midwest at the age of 14. In 1924, he moved to New York City and was signed to his first recording contract with the Victor Talking Machine Company. Also that year, Robison started a professional collaboration with Vernon Dalhart, one of the era's most notable singers. During this period, Robison also became a successful composer of "event" songs, which recounted current events or tragedies in a predictable fashion, usually concluding in a moral lesson. Some popular examples of his topical compositions include "The Wreck of the Shenandoah", Remember Pearl Harbor, "The Wreck of the Number Nine", and "The John T. Scopes Trial", about the Scopes Monkey Trial. In 1928, after Dalhart made a personnel change without consulting Robison, their relationship ended. Although the break up did not prove lucrative for either artist, Robison continued to record for decades to come. Robison made some of the earliest tours of a country musician in the Britain, appearing there in 1932, 1936, and 1938. His 1942 reworking of the standard "Turkey in the Straw", with new lyrics relating to World War II, was that year's most popular song. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he appeared on the Grand Ole Opry. His most famous recording was 1948's "Life Gets Tee-Jus Don't It", a worldwide hit for MGM Records. Robison died, aged 66, in Poughkeepsie, New York on March 24, 1957.