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Franklyn Baur (1903–1950) was a popular tenor vocal recording artist.〔Gracyk, Tim with Frank Hoffman, ''Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895--1925'', Haworth Press, New York, 2000, pp. 39--42. ISBN 0-7890-1220-0〕〔DeLong, Thomas A., ''Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960'', McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 1996, p. 26. ISBN 0-7864-0149-4〕 Baur was born in New York and educated at Amherst. At 19, he was selected from over 50 candidates as principal tenor in the Park Avenue Baptist Church known as the John D. Rockefeller Church. His grandfather on the maternal side held the same position for many years in Henry Ward Beecher's Brooklyn church.〔 ''Ziegfeld Follies of 1927'', New Amsterdam Theatre, program, page 45, Franklyn Baur short biography: http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/Whos_who/13565/45755/Ziegfeld-Follies-of-1927〕 ==Recording career== Baur made hundreds of recordings for about a dozen different recording companies, including the three major labels, Victor, Columbia and Brunswick.〔 His first recording, ''If the Rest of the World Don't Want You'', was for Victor in 1923. Baur recorded for Victor as a featured soloist, as a member of the Shannon Quartet (known as The Revelers after 1925), as one the vocalists for Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra, and also with Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra, and on occasion, as the vocalist for Paul Whiteman's orchestra, with many of his recordings being listed by Joel Whitburn as "charted."〔Whitburn, Joel, ''Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories: 1890--1954: The History of American Popular Music'', Record Research, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, 1986, p. 47--48, 367 and 386--387, 449. ISBN 0-89820-083-0〕 The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR) lists detailed information for Baur's Victor recordings.〔 *(Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (University of California, Santa Barbara) )〕 Baur first recorded for Columbia in 1924, with many more Columbia recordings to follow, and for other labels, including Brunswick, Banner, Domino, Emerson, Gennett, Grey Gull, Puritan, Oriole, and Regal, often using pseudonyms.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Franklyn Baur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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