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James Melton

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James Melton (January 2, 1904 – April 21, 1961), a popular singer in the 1920s and early 1930s, later began a career as an operatic singer when tenor voices went out of style in popular music around 1932–35. [1]

66 relations: Ancestry.com, Atlanta, Beniamino Gigli, Berlin, Bing Crosby, Canada, Chicago Civic Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Citra, Florida, Columbia Records, Ford Festival, Francis Craig, Franklyn Baur, Friedrich von Flotow, Gaetano Donizetti, George Gershwin, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Harvest of Stars, Helen Jepson, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Hypoluxo, Florida, John Charles Thomas, Ken Purdy, La traviata, Lily Pons, Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly, Martha, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Metropolitan Opera, Michael Raucheisen, Mignon, Moultrie, Georgia, Nashville, Tennessee, Nelson Eddy, New York City, Nick Lucas, Ocala, Florida, Palmolive Beauty Box Theater, Philadelphia La Scala Opera Company, Richard Crooks, Risë Stevens, Russ Columbo, Samuel Roxy Rothafel, Scrappy Lambert, Seat of local government, Sigmund Romberg, Stars Over Broadway, Tenor, ..., Texaco Star Theatre, The Bell Telephone Hour, The Magic Flute, The Revelers, The Student Prince, The Voice of Firestone, University of Florida, University of Georgia, Vanderbilt University, Victor Talking Machine Company, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ziegfeld Follies (film), 1935 in film, 1936 in film, 1937 in film, 1946 in film. Expand index (16 more) »

Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held online company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Beniamino Gigli

Beniamino Gigli (20 March 1890 – 30 November 1957) was an Italian opera singer.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)Giddins 2001, pp.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Chicago Civic Opera

The Civic Opera Company (1922–1931) was a Chicago company that produced seven seasons of grand opera in the Auditorium Theater from 1922 to 1928, and three seasons at its own Civic Opera House from 1929 to 1931 before falling victim to financial difficulties brought on in part by the Great Depression.

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Cincinnati Opera

Cincinnati Opera is an American opera company based in Cincinnati, Ohio and the second oldest opera company in the United States (after the New York Metropolitan Opera).

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Citra, Florida

Citra is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Florida, United States.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Ford Festival

Ford Festival, also known as Ford Festival Time or The James Melton Show, is an hour-long television show, sponsored by Ford Motor Company, hosted by James Melton, and broadcast on NBC Television beginning on April 5, 1951.

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Francis Craig

Francis Craig (September 10, 1900 – November 19, 1966) was an American songwriter and leader of a Nashville dance band.

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Franklyn Baur

Franklyn Baur (1903–1950) was a popular tenor vocal recording artist.

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Friedrich von Flotow

Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand, Freiherr von Flotow (27 April 1812 – 24 January 1883) was a German composer.

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Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer.

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George Gershwin

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian opera composer.

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Harvest of Stars

Harvest of Stars is a concert music series, produced and directed by Glen Heisch and starring James Melton.

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Helen Jepson

Helen Jepson (November 28, 1904 – September 16, 1997) was an American lyric soprano noted for being a "stunning blond beauty" as well as for her voice.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

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Hypoluxo, Florida

Hypoluxo is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

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John Charles Thomas

John Charles Thomas (September 6, 1891December 13, 1960) was an American opera, operetta and concert baritone.

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Ken Purdy

Kenneth William Purdy (April 28, 1913 – June 7, 1972) was an American automotive writer and editor.

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La traviata

La traviata (The Fallen Woman)Meadows, p. 582 is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

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Lily Pons

Lily Pons (born Alice Joséphine Pons, April 12, 1898 – February 13, 1976) was a French-American operatic soprano and actress who had an active career from the late 1920s through the early 1970s.

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Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti.

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Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly (Madam Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

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Martha

Martha of Bethany (Aramaic: מַרְתָּא Martâ) is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Michael Raucheisen

Translated from German Wikipedia Michael Raucheisen (9 February 1889, Rain, Swabia - 27 May 1984, Beatenberg) was a German pianist and song accompanist.

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Mignon

Mignon is an opéra comique (or opera in its second version) in three acts by Ambroise Thomas.

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Moultrie, Georgia

Moultrie is the county seat and largest city of Colquitt County, Georgia, United States.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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Nelson Eddy

Nelson Ackerman Eddy (June 29, 1901 – March 6, 1967) was an American singer and actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nick Lucas

Dominic Nicholas Anthony Lucanese (August 22, 1897 – July 28, 1982), known professionally as Nick Lucas, was the first jazz guitarist to record as a soloist.

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Ocala, Florida

Ocala is a city located in Marion County, Florida, which is part of the northern region of the state.

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Palmolive Beauty Box Theater

Palmolive Beauty Box Theater was an American radio program that featured an operetta or other musical each week from April 3, 1934, to October 6, 1937.

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Philadelphia La Scala Opera Company

The Philadelphia La Scala Opera Company (defunct) was an American opera company located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that was actively performing at the Academy of Music between 1925 and 1954.

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Richard Crooks

Richard Alexander Crooks (June 26, 1900 – September 29, 1972) was an American tenor and a leading singer at the New York Metropolitan Opera.

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Risë Stevens

Risë Stevens (June 11, 1913 – March 20, 2013) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano.

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Russ Columbo

Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo (January 14, 1908 – September 2, 1934), known as Russ Columbo, was an American baritone, songwriter, violinist and actor.

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Samuel Roxy Rothafel

Samuel Lionel "Roxy" Rothafel (July 9, 1882 – January 13, 1936) was an American theatrical impresario and entrepreneur.

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Scrappy Lambert

Harold "Scrappy" Lambert (May 12, 1901 – November 30, 1987, in New Brunswick, New Jersey) was an American dance band vocalist who appeared on hundreds of recordings from the 1920s to the 1940s.

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Seat of local government

In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre, (in the UK or Australia) a guildhall, a Rathaus (German), or (more rarely) a municipal building, is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality.

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Sigmund Romberg

Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 – November 9, 1951) was a Hungarian-born American composer.

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Stars Over Broadway

Stars Over Broadway is a 1935 American musical film directed by William Keighley, written by Jerry Wald, Julius J. Epstein, & Pat C. Flick, and starring Pat O'Brien, Jane Froman, James Melton, Jean Muir, Frank McHugh and Eddie Conrad.

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Tenor

Tenor is a type of classical male singing voice, whose vocal range is normally the highest male voice type, which lies between the baritone and countertenor voice types.

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Texaco Star Theatre

Texaco Star Theatre was an American comedy-variety show, broadcast on radio from 1938 to 1949 and telecast from 1948 to 1956.

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The Bell Telephone Hour

The Bell Telephone Hour (also known as The Telephone Hour) is a concert series which began April 29, 1940, on NBC Radio and was heard on NBC until June 30, 1958.

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The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute (German), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.

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The Revelers

The Revelers were an American quintet (four close harmony singers and a pianist) popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

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The Student Prince

The Student Prince is an operetta in four acts with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly.

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The Voice of Firestone

The Voice of Firestone is a long-running radio and television program of classical music.

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University of Florida

The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university on a campus in Gainesville, Florida.

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University of Georgia

The University of Georgia, also referred to as UGA or simply Georgia, is an American public comprehensive research university.

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Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Victor Talking Machine Company

The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American record company and phonograph manufacturer headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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Ziegfeld Follies (film)

Ziegfeld Follies is a 1945 American musical-comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and directed by Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Vincente Minnelli, Merrill Pye, George Sidney, and Charles Walters.

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1935 in film

The cinema releases of 1935 were highly representative of the early Golden Age period of Hollywood.

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1936 in film

The following is an overview of 1936 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1937 in film

The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first American full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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1946 in film

The year 1946 in film involved some significant events.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Melton

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