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  CMT.com : Vernon Dalhart : Biography
Dalhart was born Marion Try Slaughter in Jefferson, TX; the stage name Vernon Dalhart, like Conway Twitty, was a combination of the names of two Texas towns.
Dalhart's grandfather was a rancher, a former Confederate soldier who became a member of the Ku Klux Klan; he was killed in a knife fight while Dalhart was a boy.
Dalhart was a keen observer of the early power of the phonograph industry and jumped at the chance to record.
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 Vernon Dalhart
Pioneer recording artist Vernon Dalhart was born in Jefferson, Texas, in 1883.
Dalhart hmself had a personality and character seemingly as complex and baffling as his most famous recorded production - 'The Prisoner's Song'.
Vernon Dalhart began achieving status as an important recording artist when his first Edison records appeared, some two years after his name had been published in the 1915 Diamond Disc catalog.
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  Vernon Dalhart - Music Downloads - Online
Dalhart was born Marion Try Slaughter in Jefferson, TX; the stage name Vernon Dalhart, like Conway Twitty, was a combination of the names of two Texas towns.
Dalhart's grandfather was a rancher, a former Confederate soldier who became a member of the Ku Klux Klan; he was killed in a knife fight while Dalhart was a boy.
Dalhart was a keen observer of the early power of the phonograph industry and jumped at the chance to record.
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 Vernon Dalhart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vernon Dalhart (6 April 1883 - 15 September 1948) was a popular United States singer and songwriter of the early decades of the 20th century.
Dalhart died in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1948 and is interred there in the Mountain Grove Cemetery.
Vernon Dalhart cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
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 Vernon Dalhart Bio at Pure Country Music   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Vernon Dalhart was just one of an estimated 135 names under which Marion Try Slaughter recorded back in the 1920s and ‘30s.
Although Vernon Dalhart’s style was closer to operatic than what we consider country, he WAS born in Texas and he DID play the harmonica.
In 1981 Vernon Dalhart was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, and he belongs there because millions of Country folks spent their hard-earned pennies to buy his records.
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 Vernon Dalhart at AllExperts
Vernon Dalhart (6 April, 1883 - 15 September, 1948) was a popular United States singer and songwriter of the early decades of the 20th century.
While some country music purists always viewed Dalhart with some suspicion because of his light opera background and a vocal style that was closer to pop than country, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1981.
Dalhart died in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1948 and is interred there in the Mountain Grove Cemetery.
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 VERNON DALHART | Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum | Nashville, Tennessee
Vernon Dalhart was one of the most productive and versatile figures of the early recording industry, who by chance slipped into the role of a singer of hillbilly songs and became by far the most prolific recorder of such material in the 1920s.
Although Dalhart is regarded by most scholars as peripheral to the stylistic development of country music, his recordings undoubtedly circulated widely in the South and disseminated songs that were taken up by both professional and amateur country performers.
Dalhart’s recording career virtually ended with the Depression—after 1933 there was just one final session for Bluebird in 1939—and by 1942 he was reduced to working as a factory night-watchman.
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 Vernon Dalhart and theSanta Barbara Earthquake of 1925
Vernon Dalhart and theSanta Barbara Earthquake of 1925
Vernon Dalhart was born Marion Try Slaughter on April 6, 1883 in northeast Texas.
Marion took his professional name from Vernon and Dalhart Texas,the towns between which he had punched cattle in the second half of the1890's.
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 VERNON DALHART
Vernon Dalhart was born Marion Try Slaughter on April 6, 1883 in north east Texas.
Marion took his professional name from Vernon and Dalhart Texas, the towns between which he had punched cattle in the second half of the 1890's.
Dalhart's Victor recording of "Wreck of the Old '97" and "The Prisoner's Song" sold six to eight million copies.
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 Tim Gracyk's Phonographs, Singers, and Old Records -- Vernon Dalhart
Vernon Dalhart recorded often during the acoustic era of recording and was probably the most popular recording artist in America during the first couple of years of the electric era.
Dalhart was versatile from the beginning, recording everything from light classical songs to popular songs, eventually singing vocal refrains for dance bands.
Dalhart was convinced that he could make a superior recording of this and talked Edison executives into letting him record it early in 1924 (some sources say Edison's son, Charles, suggested that Dalhart record the song).
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 The Official Vernon Dalhart Web Site
Vernon Dalhart was born as Marion Try Slaughter the Second on April 6, 1883 in Jefferson, Texas.
In 1921 and 1922 his recordings picked up and with his tone test tours, Dalhart was soon able to buy a house in Mamaroneck, NY and move out of their Bronx apartment.
Dalhart decided to accept an exclusive two-year contract from Columbia to record for their low price records.
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 Texas Monthly: Texas Music Source   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Vernon Dalhart's 1924 recording for Victor of "The Prisoner's Song" showed the young recording industry that Country music could be a commercial success beyond anything then imagined, eventually selling 25 million copies during the singer's lifetime.
Dalhart began singing publicly at the age of 12, but his road to country music was circuitous.
Dalhart began using the Vernon Dalhart name instead of his real name, Marion Try Slaughter II, in 1911 when he first appeared on stage in "Girl of the Golden West." It was not adopted for recording purposes, although other pseudonyms were.
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 Hillbilly Music: Biographies
Although he is often looked upon with some skepticism by folk purists as a pretender to the genre, Vernon Dalhart nonetheless gave the fledgling hillbilly music its first smash hit, when his version of "Wreck of the Old 97" sold in the millions upon its release in 1924.
Although Dalhart has never been considered important stylistically, his impact on the development of country music cannot be denied.
Dalhart continued to record until 1939, but never again matched his early successes.
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 Vernon, Texas; Historic Vernon, Vernon Texas Hotels Motels.
Vernon lent its name to a struggling opera singer who combined it with Dalhart and became Vernon Dalhart.
The eighth person told us that the citizens of Vernon were called Vernonites, and that the twelve thousand and first inhabitant was probably a rare example of Census Bureau humor.
Vernon's 19th Century history is closely bound to the Red River crossing some 15 miles north.
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 Prisoner's Song (I), The
Plus, of course, almost any version collected after 1924 may have been influenced by the Vernon Dalhart recording, which was certainly the first million-selling country side (exact numbers are uncertain, but sheet music sales exceeded one million, and at least two million discs were sold; some estimates put the total at 25 million or more!).
The Dalhart version was copyrighted in 1924 by Dalhart in the name of Guy Massey, a cousin of the singer.
When Dalhart planned to record "The Wreck of Old 97" for Victor (he had already recorded it for Edison, and it was his biggest success to that time), they needed a flip side.
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 Vernon Dalhart - Biography - AOL Music
Vernon Dalhart came to country music from outside the tradition, becoming a national star in the years just before more indigenous kinds of country music found their place in the machinery of the music industry.
He was often teamed with guitarist and songwriter Carson Robison, who composed some of his material and went on to a long career of his own.
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 Vernon Dalhart - Country Music's First Pop Star
His first pseudonym, Vernon Dalhart, was chosen for his early stage performances, beginning in 1912.
By World War 2, Dalhart´s career was over, and he was employed as a security guard in a defense plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Vernon Dalhart died of a heart attack in 1948, while working as a night clerk at a hotel in Bridgeport.
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 Vernon Dalhart and theSanta Barbara Earthquake of 1925
Vernon Dalhart and theSanta Barbara Earthquake of 1925
Vernon Dalhart was born Marion Try Slaughter on April 6, 1883 in northeast Texas.
Marion took his professional name from Vernon and Dalhart Texas,the towns between which he had punched cattle in the second half of the1890's.
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 Vernon Dalhart
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Vernon Dalhart came to country music from outside the tradition, becoming a national star in the years just before more indigenous kinds of country music found their place in the machinery of the music industry.
He tightened his operatic voice slightly, producing a distinctive, reedy vibrato that signaled his rural roots but appealed to mainstream record buyers.
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 Vernon Dalhart : Inducted into the Hall of Fame, 1981 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
At the time of its release in the fall of 1999 as part of a series devoted to members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, this ten-song, discount-priced album was the only collection in print in the U.S. devoted to 1920s country star Vernon Dalhart.
Dalhart was an opera singer who found pop success in his early forties as a singer of what was then called hillbilly music.
On several tracks, Dalhart is accompanied by his partner Carson Robison, who wrote a number of the songs.
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 Vernon Dalhart Died On This Date In 1948
Slaughter’s early life is sketchy, but he studied at the Dallas Conservatory of Music and spent at least one summer as a cowpuncher in northwest Texas.
In 1910 he moved to New York City, where he took the stage name of Vernon Dalhart after performing in two towns in Texas, reportedly the two between which he had been a cowpuncher.
Dalhart had another million seller with “The Death Of Floyd Collins” and major hits with such numbers as “The Letter Edged In Black,” “My Blue Ridge Mountain Home,” “The Convict And The Rose,” “The Little Rosewood Casket” and “The Dream Of The Miner’s Child.”
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 Handbook of Texas Online:
Marion Try Slaughter II, pioneer country-western singer known as Vernon Dalhart, the son and only child of Robert Marion and Mary Jane (Castleberry) Slaughter, was born on April 6, 1883, at the one-room family ranch house three miles from Jefferson in Marion County.
He allegedly took his professional name from Vernon and Dalhart, the West Texas towns between which he punched cattle in the later 1890s.
In the meantime Dalhart became impressed with the budding popularity of cylinder disc recordings and decided to try that route.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/fslqz.html   (1124 words)

  
 Vernon Dalhart Products
Vernon Dalhart 78, Ain't Ya Comin' Out To-Night- LISTEN
Vernon Dalhart 78, Wreck of the Shenandoah - LISTEN
VERNON DALHART "The convict and the rose" VICTOR 78rpm
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 Playlist for Thomas Edison's Attic - February 7, 2006
February 7, 2006: "Vernon Dalhart: from opera to country recordings" by Jack Palmer
Vernon Dalhart - vocal, harmonica and jews harp ; Carson Robison - guitar ; Miss Bloom - fiddle
Vernon Dalhart - vocal, harmonica and jews harp ; Carson Robison - vocal and guitar ; John Calli - banjo ; unknown fiddler
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 Vernon Dahmer, Vernon Dalhart, Dai Vernon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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 THE TITANIC (IT WAS SAD WHEN THAT GREAT SHIP WENT DOWN)
(as recorded by VERNON DALHART) (1920s)
Under his best-known pseudonym of Vernon Dalhart, Marion Try Slaughter achieved wide acclaim as America's most popular country recording artist in the middle 1920s.
From 1928 into the depression, Dalhart's popularity faded and by 1933 he had stopped recording altogether.
Lyrics as recorded by Vernon Dalhart, 1920s; reissued on "Ballads and Railroad Songs" (OLD HOMESTEAD OHCS 129, 1980); transcribed by Manfred Helfert.
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 Vernon Dalhart – Wreck Of The Old '97 By Vernon Dalhart – Music at Last.fm
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