The Revelers

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The Revelers
The Revelers (around 1925)
The Revelers (around 1925)
General information
Genre (s) A cappella
founding 1925
Founding members
1st tenor
Franklyn Baur (1904–1950) (until 1927)
2nd tenor
Lewis James (1893-1959)
Elliot Shaw
Wilfred Glenn
Arrangement, piano
Ed Smalle (1887–1968)
Later members
1st tenor
Frank Luther (1905–1980)
1st tenor
James Melton (1904–1961)
arrangement
Don Murray
The Revelers - I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston, also released in Germany

The Revelers (Eng. "The night owls") was an American vocal quartet that was very famous in the late 1920s and early 1930s . You are considered a role model for the German Comedian Harmonists .

The Revelers developed from the group The Shannon Four with members Charles Hart (tenor), Harry Hindermyer (tenor), Elliot Shaw (baritone) and Wilfried Glenn (bass). Since 1917 this group made vinyl recordings for Victor. After reshuffling, they called themselves Shannon Quartet (Lewis James (tenor), Franklin Baur (tenor), Elliot Shaw (baritone), Wilfried Glenn (bass)). The Revelers ( Victor or HMV and Electrola) came into being through piano accompaniment and arrangements by Ed Smalle, who sometimes also sang along as a tenor buffo . Recordings were made not only by Victor but also by Columbia and Brunswick Records . On Columbia the group was called The Singing Sophomores and on Brunswick The Merrymakers . The first big success was the second record, Dinah / I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston , which was released in the USA in January 1926. Since the Victor label had a license agreement with the record company Electrola , which had just been founded in Germany , the recordings were also released in Germany. What is remarkable about the German Electrola label that the name also Reve ll ers was written and that the subtitle "negro song" was printed, although the Revelers were white. The Revelers profited from the sale of their records. A total of around 150 different titles were produced for retail between 1925 and 1931. The line-up of the group also changed at times. Ed Small was represented by pianist Frank Black and Charles Harrison, James Melton and Frank Luther temporarily replace the tenor Franklin Baur.

The Revelers first appeared in Europe in 1928. Concerts in France, Holland, Switzerland and Germany followed on August 21 and 22, 1928, appearances in the Middle and Great Concert Hall, Vienna; A soiree in the Villa Castiglioni on the Grundlsee concluded the overseas tour the next day.

Well-known songs (selection)

  • I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston (January 13, 1926)
  • Dinah (September 4 and January 13, 1926)
  • Who? from the musical Sunny , as The Singing Sophomores on Columbia (January 27, 1926)
  • Valencia (June 2, 1926)
  • The Blue Room (June 8, 1926)
  • Birth of the Blues (July 14, 1926)
  • Baby Face as The Merrymakers on Brunswick (July 23, 1926)
  • Ol 'Man River from the Musical Show Boat (January 11, 1928)
  • When Yuba played the Rumba on the Tuba (July 24, 1931)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b (The Revelers in Vienna!) , Neue Freie Presse, Morning Journal, August 21, 1928 page 9 top left anno.onb.ac.at .
  2. ^ The "Revelers" in Vienna. Baden newspaper, August 18, 1928 page 4, bottom left anno.onb.ac.at .
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  4. The Revelers are back! Neue Freie Presse, Morning Journal, August 24, 1928 page 10, top left anno.onb.ac.at .