Piano Varieties #4 Recorded 1926 - 1941 363Dmp3

The pseudonym of Edgar Fairchild was used by Milton Suskind for popular numbers ,and he used his own name for classical content. Born in 1898, he was playing piano at 7 years of age, and won a scholarship at the Institute of Musical Art, later known as Juilliard. At sixteen, he became a soloist with the New York Symphony Orchestra under conductor Walter Damrosch. In the late thirties, a position as conductor for Eddie Cantor's NBC radio show drew hin to California. He partnered with Ralph Rainger and Adam Carroll. Rainger also duetted with Carroll. Ralph wrote and co-wrote songs such as June In January, Easy living, June in January, and many more. Adam Carroll was a prolific recording artist for the Ampico Piano Roll Company, as was Edgar Fairchild.

Cleo Orville Sims was born in 1898 in Champaign, Illinois but grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. At the age of 8, he played ragtime and waltzes for a YMCA. By age 11, he was accompanying church singers and playing the pipe organ for silent movie theatres . At 14, he played at the Majestic Theater in LaSalle, Illinois. While still in his teens, he went to work for a pipe organ manufacturer, demonstrating instruments from coast to coast. At age 22, Sims settled in Chicago, making piano rolls for the United States Piano Roll Company and other piano roll companies. He became studio manager for WTAS, one of the first radio stations in the Middle West. Later, he was studio manager of KYW, the Westinghouse station in Chicago, and WBBM, then the Stewart-Warner “theatre of the air.” He married Ilomay Bailey, a vocalist with the Paul Ash and Ben Pollack orchestras. In the 1930s, Lee and Ilomay appeared as stars of the Chase and Sanborn Hour night program for the National Broadcasting Company. Other radio appearances included Rudy Vallee's program and the Ben Bernie and Phil Baker shows. During the 1920s and 1930s, Sims recorded approximately 60 sides for Brunswick. Sims's style, though somewhat outside of the realm of jazz, as it is typically considered today, was well within it in the era of his prominence. Nevertheless, Sims influenced at least one notable jazz figure: Art Tatum listened to Sims' radio broadcasts, and acknowledged Sims as an important influence on his musical development.

TWINKLETOES FAIRCHILD AND RAINGER BR 3976 06/01/28 27681 POTTER 3:00 ON YOUR TOES/THE HEART IS QUICKER THAN THE EYE FAIRCHILD-CARROLL LMS L192 01/01/36 19062 HART-RODGERS ON YOUR TOES 3:07
1. THERE'S A SMALL HOTEL/IT'S GOT TO BE LOVE FAIRCHILD-CARROLL LMS L192 01/01/36 19061 HART-RODGERS ON YOUR TOES 3:18
2. LOVE WALKED IN-SPRING AGAIN-I WAS DOING ALL RIGHT EDGAR FAIRCHILD LMS 230 01/01/38 22608 GERSHWIN-GERSHWIN-DUKE 3:02
3. PLEASE BE KIND-THANKS FOR THE MEMORY-O CAN DREAM,CAN'T I? EDGAR FAIRCHILD LMS 230 01/01/38 22609 CAHN-CHAPLIN-ROBIN-RAINGER-KAHAL-FAIN 3:15
4. BEWITCHED/I COULD WRITE A BOOK/PLANT YOU NOW,DIG YOU LATER CY WALTER LMS 321 01/01/41 R3456 RODGERS-HART 2:40
5. MY SHIP/THIS IS NEW/JENNY CY WALTER LMS 321 01/01/41 R3457 WEILL-GERSHWIN 3:20

   Lee Sims

6. TALKING TO THE MOON BR 3202 05/28/26 C348-C350 LITTLE-BASKETTE 3:12
7. TENDERLY BR 3202 05/28/26 C351/C352 DALE-LYMAN 3:07
8. ADORABLE BR 3266 07/15/26 E19766 FORD-WYNBURN 3:16
9. I'D CLIMB THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN BR 3266 07/15/26 E19768 BROWN-CLARE 3:13
10. WHAT'S THE USE OF CRYING? BR 3320 09/11/26 E20158 KINDE -FORBSTEIN 3:19
11. LITTLE WHITE HOUSE BR 3462 02/01/27 E21295 DOWLING-HANLEY 2:25
12. LITTLE WHITE HOUSE ALT TAKE BR 3462 02/01/27 E21295 DOWLING-HANLEY 3:20
13. IT MADE YOU HAPPY WHEN YOU MADE ME CRY BR 3462 02/01/27 E21303 DONALDSON 3:11
14. SONG OF THE WANDERER BR 3551 05/01/27 E22998 MORET 3:12
15. PAL OF MY LONESOME HOURS BR 3320 05/01/27 E20161 HIRSCH-LYMAN-DALE 2:57
16. FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU BR 3551 05/03/27 C891-C892 MEYER-DAVIS 3:09
17. LET'S MISBEHAVE BR 3754 11/30/27 E25364/E25365 COLE PORTER 2:54
18. MINE-ALL MINE BR 3754 12/01/27 E25390/E25381 RUBY-COWAN-STEPT 2:47
19. INDIAN LOVE CALL BR 3799 12/01/27 E25417 HARBACH-HAMMERSTEIN-FRIML 3:21
20. MEDITATION BR 3764 12/06/27 E25437/E25438 LEE SIMS 3:25
21. SOME OF THESE DAYS EARLE OLIVER-t BR 3764 12/01/27 E25439 SHELTON BROOKS 2:55
22. DEEP IN MY HEART,DEAR BR 3799 02/01/28 C258 DONNELLY-ROMBERG 3:19
    

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