ENGLISH SOPRANO VIOLET ESSEX (1893-1941) CDR

 

VIOLET LOUISE ESSEX TUCKER (ENGLAND OCT. 19, 1893 - LOS ANGELES COUNTY CALIFORNIA, USA JAN. 31, 1941)

 

 

During The Great war, everyone needed lighter music, especially lively ditties from popular musicals. The talented English soprano Violet Essex, known as "Vera Desmond", recorded mostly lighter music. Under her own name Violet recorded Arditi's "Il bacio" and Musetta's Waltz from La Boheme and dazzled in Gilbert and Sullivan operas that HMV would begin to record late in the war. As “Vera” she recorded current tunes such as Dorothy Forster's "Take me to flowerland with you" as well as English songs of the ages "Where the bee sucks" by Arne and "Orpheus with his lute" by Sullivan. She died just six months after moving with her family to Beverly Hills, California.

 

 

TRACKLIST

  

 

Bohème (Puccini) Musetta's waltz song 2-3075 Ho1214b HMV, London 1915-02-26

Chu Chin Chow (Norton) Any time's kissing time (w. Pounds) 04186 Ho2330af HMV, London 1916-11-24

Chu Chin Chow (Norton) I love you so 03528 Ho2331af HMV, London 1916-11-24

Yeomen of the Guard (Sullivan): a) Here's a man of jollity (Baker & full chorus); b) I have a song to sing-O (Radford, Baker & full chorus: Thornton, Essex, B Jones, S Jones, Walker, Radford, Dawson, Pike, Halland, Wilde, Heyl & Glynne) 04702 Ho4302-2af HMV, London 1920-03-18

Yeomen of the Guard (Sullivan):  b) I have a song to sing-O (Radford, Baker & full chorus Thornton, Radford, B Jones, S Jones, Walker, Radford, Dawson, Pike, Halland, Wilde, Heyl & Glynne) 04702 Ho4302-2af HMV, London 1920-03-04

Yeomen of the Guard (Sullivan): Comes the pretty young bride (w. Essex, Thornton, Heyl & chorus: Baker, Glynne, Dawson, Pike, Halland, B Jones & S Jones) 04285 Ho4410-2af HMV, London 1920-05-27

Yeomen of the Guard (Sullivan): Night has spread her pall (Thornton & full chorus: Dawson, Radford, B Jones, S Jones, Walker, Radford, Baker, Pike, Halland, Wilde, Heyl & Glynne) 03727 Ho4303af HMV, London 1920-03-18

Yeomen of the Guard (Sullivan): The prisoner comes to meet his doom (Full chorus: Thornton, Radford, B Jones, S Jones, Walker, Radford, Dawson, Baker, Pike, Halland, Wilde, Heyl & Glynne) 04697 Ho4411af HMV, London 1920-05-27

Yeomen of the Guard (Sullivan) Tower Warders under orders (Dawson & full chorus Thornton, Radford, B Jones, S Jones, Walker, Radford, Baker, Pike, Halland, Wilde, Heyl & Glynne) 02890 Ho4300af HMV, London 1920-03-18

 

Il bacio (Arditi) 28197 Columbia Regal, London 1912

 

The Arcadians Charming Weather (w. Thornton) 1-69092 Favorite, London

The Arcadians Half past two (w. Thornton) 1-69094 Favorite, London

The Quaker Girl (Monckton) Ah Oui 1-66077 Favorite, London

The Quaker Girl (Monckton) O, Time, Time 1-66076 Favorite, London

 

The Chocolate Soldier (Oscar Straus) My Hero 41081 Beka

ENGLISH SOPRANO VIOLET ESSEX (1893-1941) CDR

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