George Price
Georgie Price (George Edwards Price; January 5, 1901 – May 10, 1964) was an American vaudeville singer and comic who performed in Vitaphone shorts in the 1920s and 1930s. Price was born in New York and began as a child performer in public places such as barrooms and streetcars, before winning amateur competitions. At six years old, he so impressed opera singer Enrico Caruso that he performed with Caruso in a benefit concert for a deceased police officers family. It was Price, as a vaudeville child star, who in 1909 introduced the famous Edwards-Madden song "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" in Gus Edwards' revue School Boys and Girls. As a boy performer he also appeared on Broadway with girl actor Lila Lee, later a well-known film actress. As an adult professional he drew comparisons to Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor. A bitter dispute with Shubert theatre magnate, Jacob J. Shubert, caused Price by the late 1920s to give up show business to work as a Wall Street broker. Shubert had originally hired Price with the promise to turn him into a major headliner, but then reneged and in turn refused to fulfill the financial obligations on Price's contract. Georgie Price appeared in the stage show at the Mastbaum Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with Barto and Mann and Maria Gambarelli (Gamby) in March, 1932. He died in New York, aged 63. |
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Birth and Death Data: Born January 5, 1901 (New York City), Died May 10, 1964 (New York City)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1918 - 1940
Roles Represented in DAHR: tenor vocal, lyricist, songwriter, speaker, vocalist
Notes: Name often appears as Georgie Price.
= Recordings are available for online listening.
= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.
Recordings (Results 1-25 of 56 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | B-26448 | 10-in. | 5/2/1922 | Angel child | Henry Burr ; Albert Campbell | Male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-26817 | 10-in. | 8/7/1922 | I'll stand beneath your window to-night and whistle | Billy Murray ; Aileen Stanley | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | lyricist | |
Victor | B-27673 | 10-in. | 3/26/1923 | Dearest (you're the nearest to my heart) | George Price | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-27674 | 10-in. | 3/26/1923 | Morning will come | George Price | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-27775 | 10-in. | 4/24/1923 | Barney Google | George Price | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-27776 | 10-in. | 4/24/1923 | Beside a babbling brook | George Price | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-29097 | 10-in. | 12/18/1923 | Ellis Island blues | George Price | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-29162 | 10-in. | 12/28/1923 | Yes, dear | George Price | Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | lyricist, vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-29164 | 10-in. | 12/28/1923 | I'm goin' south | George Price ; Virginians | Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-29355 | 10-in. | 1/28/1924 | Nita (I need you) | George Price | Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | lyricist, vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-29356 | 10-in. | 1/28/1924 | California, here I come | The Manhattan Merrymakers ; George Price | Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-30132 | 10-in. | 5/23/1924 | Nobody's child | George Price ; The Troubadours | Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | lyricist, vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-30133 | 10-in. | 5/23/1924 | You know me Alabam' | George Price ; The Troubadours | Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-30814 | 10-in. | 9/12/1924 | Bring back those rock-a-bye baby days | George Price | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-30834 | 10-in. | 9/19/1924 | My best girl | George Price | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-32415 | 10-in. | 4/10/1925 | Isn't she the sweetest thing | George Price | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-32416 | 10-in. | 4/10/1925 | Swanee butterfly | George Price | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-32417 | 10-in. | 4/10/1925 | All aboard for heaven (All aboard for home sweet home) | George Price | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | BVE-33827 | 10-in. | 10/30/1925 | Mother me, Tennessee | George Price | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | BVE-33828 | 10-in. | 10/30/1925 | Clap hands! Here comes Charley | George Price | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | BVE-34111 | 10-in. | 12/2/1925 | My bundle of love | Gene Austin | Male vocal solo, with violin and piano | lyricist | |
Victor | BVE-34131 | 10-in. | 12/9/1925 | Where the huckleberries grow | George Price | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | BVE-34140 | 10-in. | 12/14/1925 | Miami, you owe a lot to me | George Price | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | BVE-47576 | 10-in. | 10/1/1928 | You're gone | Park Central Orchestra ; Ben Pollack | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | songwriter | |
Victor | MVE-56099 | 16-in. | 10/7/1929 | Station B. U. N. K. | George Price | Motion picture soundtrack : Comic scene, with orchestra | speaker, vocalist, tenor vocal |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Price, George," accessed March 25, 2023, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105292.
Price, George. (2023). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved March 25, 2023, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105292.
"Price, George." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2023. Web. 25 March 2023.
DAHR Persistent Identifier
Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Price, George, 1901-1964 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86039284
Wikidata: Georgie Price - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16003685
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/48242215
MusicBrainz: Georgie Price - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/89d6693b-d2f9-47ed-9a46-438f20f68598
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