Vaughn De Leath
Vaughn De Leath (born 26 September 1894 in Mount Pulaski, Illinois, † May 29 1943 in Buffalo, New York) was an American singer, who arrived in the 1920s to notoriety and the nickname The Original Radio Girl ( dt. : the original Radio Girl ) and First Lady of Radio (German: First Lady of the radio) led. Despite their popularity in the 1920s, De Leath is little known today. De Leath was an early representative of a vocal style that is known as crooning. One of her hit singles Are You Lonesome Tonight?, Taken in 1927, came in the version of Elvis Presley in 1960 to world fame.
Life
It was as Leonore Vonderlieth in Mount Pulaski, Illinois, born in 1894, and grew up in various places in California. Her parents were George and Catherine Vonderlieth. At the age of 12 years Leonore moved with her mother and her sister to Los Angeles, where she graduated from high school and studied music. During her time at Mills College, she began to write her own songs, some of them published before 1912. She took the stage name Vaughn De Leath on, a derivative of her last name. Your remarkable vocal range ranged from soprano to alto.
De Leath was married twice. Her first husband, the artist Leon Geer, she married in 1924, the couple divorced in 1934. Your second husband, the musician Irwin Rosenbloom, she married in 1936. Above her last decade of life, little is known. At the time of her death in 1943 she lived impoverished and alcohol problems in Buffalo. In her obituary in the New York Times her age was incorrectly given as 42, although she was already 48 years old. She was buried in her birthplace Mount Pulaski, Illinois.
Work
About the first radio appearance, the source location is uncertain. Contradictory source has claimed that she is in the December 1919 or January 1920 at the request of the inventor and radio pioneer Lee De Forest have sung in his laboratory in New York City a few dozen listeners. In October 1920 her first recording session was released, entitled I Love the Land of Old Black Joe at Edison Records. Within the next decade, she took on for a number of music labels, including Edison Records, Columbia Records, Okeh Records, Gennett Records, Victor Records and Brunswick Records. The occasional recordings for the sub-label of the majors, were published under various pseudonyms, mostly as Gloria Geer. Both in studio recordings as well as live performances accompanied De Leath himself on ukulele, banjo, guitar and piano. Your intake of Ukulele Lady ( 1925), was a hit and Cider House Rules in 1999 in the film God used.
In 1923 she was one of the first female manager of a radio station, WDT in New York City. After breaking up in 1925 again fully dedicated her performances, she appeared in 1928 in various testing programs for television on. 1928 or 1929, she was the star guest of the first broadcasts of Voice of Firestone Radio Hour. She was among the first American entertainers, which was heard in Europe about the transatlantic radio transmission. The last recording of De Leath comes from the year 1931 for the Crown label of Eli Oberstein. In the same year she accused Kate Smith to lead the epithet First Lady of the radio unjustified. Smith failed to do so, introduced the name but after the death of De Leath on. In the following years De Leath received only engagements with local radio stations and ran a nightclub in Stamford. Her last public appearance took place on the anniversary of Voice of Firestone Radio Hour on January 6, 1939.
Achievements and honors
Until then your biggest success was their version of the written by Roy Turk and Lou Handman Ballad Are You Lonesome Tonight? With which it reached # 4 on the charts in 1927. De Leath dedicated a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Also the later of Marilyn Monroe in Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like it Hot sung Evergreen I Wanna Be Loved By You ( Music: Herbert Stothart and Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar text ) was published in 1930 by Vaughn De Leath successfully.