Brox Sisters

The Brox Sisters was an American a cappella girl group. The vocal trio was successful in the U.S. as a female jazz vocal group in the 1920s and early 1930s.

Members

The vocal trio consisted of three biological sisters:

Josephine ( " Bobbe " ) Brox ( born 1900 in Memphis / Tennessee, † 2 May 1999 Glen Falls, New York), Eunice ( " Lorayne " ) Brox ( born November 11, 1900 in Memphis / Tennessee, † 14 June 1993 in Los Angeles / California) and Kathlyn ( " Patricia " ) Brox ( born June 14, 1903 † 1988). The original family name was " Brock ," he was later changed because of better visibility in " Brox ", also the name of the sisters were changed. Josephine Brox changed its name changed to " Dagmar ", before finally the stage name " Bobbe " accepted.

Bobbe Brox married in 1928 William Perlberg, a manager of artists agency " William Morris ," who later became a major film producer in Hollywood was. Marriage, from which comes a son, got divorced mid-1960s and in 1969 married Bobbe Brox second husband, the composer Jimmy Van Heusen, who wrote numerous hits for Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.

Career

Broadway shows 1921-1927

After they had performed as a teenager as a vocal trio with jazz orchestras, Irving Berlin wrote in 1921 specifically for the three sisters the song Everybody Step and the Brox Sisters were the attraction of Irving Berlin's Broadway show The Music Box Revue, the 1921-1924 ran in the New York Theatre. In the years 1925 and 1926, the Brox Sisters came together with the Marx Brothers in the Broadway comedy Cocoanuts. In 1927, she appeared along with the comedian Eddie Cantor in the Ziegfeld Follies Broadway show of 1927 at the New Amsterdam Theatre.

Records

In March and April 1922, the Brox Sisters recorded their first record, the music composed by Irving Berlin School House Blues and Some Sunny Day, was released by Brunswick Records .. Until March 1924 published a further five singles in Brunswick, including the song Learn To Do The Strut and Bring On The Pepper by Irving Berlin. The first single, recorded the Brox Sisters for the Victor Records, was a song by Irving Berlin: Lazy. By 1927, eight more singles appeared on the Victor label, all of which were included in the recording studio in Camden / New Jersey.

Movies 1927-1932

After two short films in which she participated in 1927 ( Down South ) and 1928 ( Headin 'South ), was her first role in a feature film in Hollywood Review Of 1929, in which almost all the stars who were at that time at MGM contract occurred. The sung by the Brox Sisters title Singin ' In The Rain was a Evergreen .. 1930 was followed by the films Spring Is Here, The Melody and Dogway The King Of Jazz. In the film, King Of Jazz they are accompanied with the title A Bench In The Park of the Orchestra Paul Whiteman and the Rhythm Boys, which consisted of Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and Al Rinker. Your last appearance in a Hollywood film they had in 1932 in Hollywood On Parade.

After the Brox Sisters had been dissolved in 1932 as the singing group, mainly because Bobbe Brox as Mrs. Perlberg now was the wife of an influential Hollywood producer and could not at the same time in this function to work as a singer and wanted the Brox Sisters were once again in 1939 together on. Occasion he public presentation of Irving Berlin's new film Alexander 's Ragtime Band, the Brox Sisters act in a nationally broadcast radio show, hosted by Al Jolson, with, to support the promotion of the film.

Music Historical Significance

Music seen historically, the Brox Sisters at the beginning of a long line of girl groups, had musically and on the type of marketing model for the female vocal groups of the jazz era and can be seen as forerunners of the Boswell Sisters and Andrew Sisters.