Word: shilkret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another claimant to authorship of The Prisoner's Song was Conductor Nathaniel ("Nat") Shilkret. Last week this sawed-off little maestro astounded the industry by going after The Prisoner's Song in dead earnest. He filed a copy of the music at the Copyright Office in Washington, had his lawyer, Maurice Speiser, call on the publishers, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., for an accounting of the baleful ballad's huge sales and earnings...
First record of The Prisoner's Song was made twelve years ago for Victor Talking Machine Co. by nasal-voiced Vernon Daihart, Guy Massey's cousin. At that time Nat Shilkret was Victor's musical director. After the recording, Dalhart took the music he had used to the publishers. Last week Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., which still has this manuscript, was positive Massey, not Shilkret, was the author. Guy Massey himself cannot be called in to settle the dispute. He died stone deaf in San Antonio in 1925. Meantime, nobody doubts that Shilkret, now musical director...
...series with "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." Almost as striking as the Spalding-Castoria conjunction will be the crooning of Helen Morgan for Bi-So-Dol, stomach sweetener, at 2 p. m. Sundays. Tenor John McCormack will sing lush Irish ballads for Vince mouthwash. Spindling Nat Shilkret & orchestra will provide a background for the Vitamin A in Smith Brothers couph-drops. Nino Martini will sing for Lirit bath softener. Actor Fred Stone, a comparative newcomer to radio, will have his wife and three daughters with him on a Gulf Refining Co. program...
Ruth Etting, Boswell Sisters. Arthur Tracy with Nat Shilkret's Orchestra Chesterfield Cigarets...
...from Marta on the reverse side, was put on sale last week in record shops all over the U. S. Raymond Sooy. who engineered the making of the original Caruso records, felt that full justice had to be done to his friend's voice. He consulted Conductor Nathaniel Shilkret, Victor's able handyman, who proceeded to memorize Caruso's interpretations, each long held note, each sob and sigh. Conductor Shilkret donned earphones, then summoned his orchestra and. listening to the old records, conducted new accompaniments which would time with them exactly. Through two loudspeakers in a separate...