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Bob Roberts  Alexander   Favoriting 1904 
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  Bob Roberts was born on April 27, 1879, in Cincinnati as Robert A. Roberts.

He became known to record buyers as Bob Roberts or Ragtime Bob Roberts. His father was Nicholas Roberts, proprietor of the Nick Roberts' Pantomime Company (he had emigrated from Germany). In his youth Bob traveled extensively with shows.

He apparently made his recording debut in 1902 with Columbia, cutting performances issued on early Columbia discs (seven-inch as well as ten-inch), black wax cylinders, and brown wax cylinders (the company continued to use brown wax for over a year after introducing its molded cylinders in February 1902).

He was most successful with comic numbers, especially "coon" songs. He covered for some companies material that Arthur Collins and Billy Murray covered for others. Though known for comic songs, he recorded a few plantation-type numbers such as "Old Log Cabin in the Lane" (Victor 4458). His first Edison records, made in late 1903, were issued in February 1904. One of the two cylinders is Edison Standard 8617, which features Roberts singing Theodore Morse's "The Woodchuck Song," which asks in its chorus, "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"

Billy Murray recorded this for Victor on September 29, 1903--an example of Roberts and Murray cutting the same material for competing companies. They began recording within a year of each other. Roberts was first (with Columbia) though Murray had been making Edison cylinders for several months before Roberts worked for Edison. Edison executives probably viewed Roberts as an easy substitute for or alternative to Murray.

In March 1904, the Edison company issued Roberts singing Tom Lemonier's "I'm Just Barely Living That's All" (8644), which Roberts also recorded for Victor on January 11, 1904 (2623).

Roberts was most popular on records from 1903 to 1907, his work being issued on major disc and cylinder labels as well as small ones such as Aretino, Busy Bee, Indestructible, D & R, and U-S Everlasting. He recorded often for Victor, beginning on October 1, 1903, and also for its subsidiary record label, Zon-o-phone (he began in early 1904 with nine-inch records). He cut "Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree" from the Follies of 1911 for Victor 16909. In 1912 Roberts cut the popular "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" (Victor 17090).

His last Edison recording appears to be Blue Amberol 1632, issued in March 1913: "Fables," with music by J. Fred Helf and words by Jeff Branen. It was his sole Blue Amberol recording, and he made no Diamond Discs.

By 1913 he had stopped working for the three big companies--that is, Victor, Columbia, and Edison.

During the 1920s Roberts worked in radio. He was a member of the "Adolph and Otto" team, featured on WCKY in Cincinnati. Walsh reports in the May 1975 issue of Hobbies that Roberts operated a poolroom late in life.

His death was sudden.

He went to the radio station on January 21, 1930, but chest pains prevented him from performing. He hurried home to 3671 Vine Street and took medicine. A few minutes later his wife Katherine heard him fall over a chair. He died shortly thereafter of a heart attack.

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Alice Babs  Nobody's Sweetheart   Favoriting 1939 
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The Ramblers  Could Be   Favoriting 1939 
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Carla van Renesse  Het Dorpje Van St Bernadette   Favoriting 1960 
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Ivan Petroff  Lucovitski Mome Vo Struga Grada   Favoriting 1940s 
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Music behind DJ:
Christianne 

Spring in the Air [Carolyn Miller]   Favoriting

 

Kleines Präludium [Bach]
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Bob Roberts  and the parrot said   Favoriting 1911 
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Gretli & Ruedi Egger  Amor i Alperna   Favoriting 1946 
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Edith Piaf  Le Chasseur De L'hôtel   Favoriting 1944 
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Bessie Smith  Empty Bed Blues   Favoriting 1928 
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Eddy Christiani  Een Melodie Met Een Beetje Rhythme   Favoriting 1944 
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Music behind DJ:
Christianne 

Spring in the Air [Carolyn Miller]   Favoriting

 

Kleines Präludium [Bach]
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Bob Roberts  And the world goes on   Favoriting 1905 
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Lee Tully & Bernie Share Orchestra  Essen - Part II   Favoriting 1947 
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Albert Whelan  The Barmaids Song   Favoriting 1930 
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Rita Abadzi  Neos Konialis   Favoriting 1930s 
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Peter Alexander  Das Ganze Haus Ist Schief   Favoriting 1958 
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Fred Duprez and Bob Roberts  Blitz and Blatz at the sea shore   Favoriting 1909 
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Christianne 

Spring in the Air [Carolyn Miller]   Favoriting

 

Kleines Präludium [Bach]
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OLD TIME RADIO
Various Artists  A Barrel Of Fun 1942-01-23   Favoriting 1942 
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Kirby Walker a.o.  Harlem Hospitality Club 1947 (14)   Favoriting 1947 
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Dinah Shore  Way You Look Tonight   Favoriting 1945 
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Rock A Teens  Woo Hoo   Favoriting 1959 
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Lots and lots of other audio antiquities on WFMU:

Centennial Songs - The Antique Phonograph Music Program contextually presented by Michael Cumella

The Ragged Phonograph Program with Mike Haar Original ragtime, jazz, and pop music from the first quarter of the 20th century, with historical background on vaudeville-era artists

Merrilly We Roll Along A mish-mash of high energy lunacy, reverence, and irreverence for forgotten pop stars, love for Saturday morning cartoons and exploration of pre-rock novelties, classic and neo-Vaudeville, jug bands, polka, klezmer and much much more fun! with MHLee

Thomas Edison's Attic The audio curator at Edison National Historic Site rummages through the archives of the legendary Edison Laboratory of West Orange, New Jersey

The Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!

Secret Museum of the Air with Citizen Kafka and Pat Conte: Archives

Rare Oldies Radio hosted by Kitschy Mama, featuring lost songs from the 50s & 60s: Retro Obscuro with Kitschy Mama

Music from the 1920s in the January 7, 2020 episode of Continental Subway with David Dichelle

Music and other recordings of Lynda Barry in the june 7, 2020 episode of Canibal Stew with DJ ARB

You might want also to check out the Surface Noise archives with DJ Joe McGasko from 2008 and 2009



More Dutch 'forgotten artists' can be found on Vergeten Artiesten by Mike Winkelman


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Avatar 9:52am
Mr Fab:

Gooooood morning, all! (Or whatever it is where you are.) Hope you are enjoying your semi-holiday, Jan.
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Jan Turkenburg:

Hi Mr Fab. I'm semi-here. I mean: we're semi-here indeed. Christianne and I. I'll be popping in ebery now and then.
Avatar 9:58am
DJ Guin:

morning jan
hello Mr. Fab
hey kids
Avatar 10:01am
Mr Fab:

Someone really named their child "Robert Roberts"..?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:04am
WR:

Hello Jan and folks.
Avatar 10:04am
DJ Guin:

I knew a Robert Robertson. name changed when he was adopted his stepfather
Avatar 10:04am
DJ Guin:

hey WR
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09am
Jan Turkenburg:

Hi WR and DJ Guin!
Avatar 10:10am
Mr Fab:

OMG, we used to sing this “Ave Maria“ song in Catholic school. I don’t think I’ve ever actually heard a recording of it before.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12am
Krys O.:

Hi, Jan!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12am
WR:

Hi DJ Guin,
Avatar 10:13am
DJ Guin:

popup web player is showing the last song listed on the playlist, but not a big deal
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13am
Krys O.:

↳ Mr Fab @10:01
I knew someone named Pete Peterson. Also someone named Pete Rabbitt.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14am
Krys O.:

Bob Roberts was a great movie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14am
Krys O.:

↳ Song: a song
Sounded like some Slavic language in there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14am
WR:

↳ DJ Guin @10:13
Yes, since Jan already published the whole playlist, the players all show the last track from the list.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:15am
Jan Turkenburg:

Hi Krys!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:16am
Krys O.:

↳ WR @10:14
Thanks for the tip, WR. I missed that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:16am
Jan Turkenburg:

↳ WR @10:14
yes, correct.
Avatar 10:22am
David in California:

↳ Song: "and the parrot said" by "Bob Roberts"
Hello, Jan. This song reminded me of a cartoon that used to run on "The Electric Company": www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:26am
MHLee:

Hi Jan
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:27am
MHLee:

Sounds like Bessie Smith maybe?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:29am
WR:

↳ MHLee @10:27
absolutely yes. hearing Smith's Empty Bed Blues now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30am
Krys O.:

↳ MHLee @10:27
The whole playlist was pre-published.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:32am
MHLee:

Oh it's being run by MrFab. I see.
Avatar 10:35am
DJ Guin:

↳ David in California @10:22
oh, geez, David...i STILL do this routine when people knock!! "WHO is it?" "It's the Plumber. I've come to fix the sink!"
Avatar 10:36am
DJ Guin:

↳ DJ Guin @10:35
i would like to think the Jerky Boys were inspired by Electric Company
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:44am
WR:

↳ Song: "and the parrot said" by "Bob Roberts"
Ok, Jan, the source of your info on Bob Roberts seems to be from Tim Gracyk. He has a youtube channel with nearly 12,000 early recordings and has self published some books on American recordings 1895 - 1925 (currently a Kindle only edition available on Amazon). He has several Bob Roberts recordings on youtube and each one has the text you copied into the playlist here. Here is Gracyk's youtube for the parrot song:
www.youtube.com...

I thought at first maybe Gracyk copied the text from some one's web page or book but I only found other people referencing Gracyk's work.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:54am
WR:

↳ WR @10:44
There is also an ebook edition of the recording pioneer book and it was published in 2000 in HB and paper but very expensive, even used.
Avatar 11:04am
Roberto:

↳ Song: "A Barrel Of Fun 1942-01-23" by "Various Artists"
Wait, Carole Lombard died the week before this aired 1942-01-23.
Avatar 11:04am
Roberto:

↳ Roberto @11:04
Maybe the news traveled slowly.
Avatar 11:05am
Roberto:

↳ Roberto @11:04
Or maybe he was a necro.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:07am
Jan Turkenburg:

Hi David, MHLee and Roberto! Thanks WR for looking that up!
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MHLee:

↳ Roberto @11:04
I don't know my golden age actors or actresses... but wow she was pretty
Avatar 11:13am
Arvo Zylo:

Goood morning Vietnam!
Avatar 11:15am
Arvo Zylo:

I <3 Rita Abadzi! And most of the Rebitiko of that time. Shame I missed it.
Avatar 11:15am
Roberto:

↳ MHLee @11:10
Yeah, pretty dead by 1/23/42.
Avatar 11:28am
David in California:

↳ MHLee @11:10
Two good films she was in, that are easily available because they're in public domain, are "My Man Godfrey" and "Nothing Sacred".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:41am
coelacanth∅:

Greetings Jan and all
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MHLee:

This doesn't seem like Bebop to me? Of course I think I'm more used to hard bop
  11:46am
DJ Guin:

thanks in advance, jan! see you soon
Avatar 11:53am
Mr Fab:

Stay tuned for five, yes, FIVE! hours of audio weirdness from Arvo Zylo.
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Jan Turkenburg:

Hi Arvo Zylo, coelacanth∅. Thanks for listening and being here, everybody! See you another time! 🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56am
Krys O.:

Thanks, Jan!
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WR:

Thank you! Jan!
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David in California:

↳ Jan Turkenburg @11:54
Thank you, Jan. I'm going to look for more from Kirby Walker. I really like his piano playing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58am
Asheville Jon:

🦆
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59am
MHLee:

Vontage commercial?
Avatar 11:59am
Mr Fab:

Rock A Teens "Woo Hoo": covered by the 5678s in "Kill BIll."
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Jan Turkenburg:

↳ Asheville Jon @11:58
👍🦆❗
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MHLee:

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