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AudioW. S. Ellis, One Two Three
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Performer: W. S. Ellis And Ellis Bros. Glee Club Matrix and take number: Zonophone matrix 1150-1 Catalog number: Victor 15014 (10-inch 78 rpm record) Runout: B 15014 1150 Title: One Two Three (music by Jack Alau, lyrics by S. Kalama) Hawaiian Tenor with Chorus Recorded Honolulu, HI or New York, NY, July 1904. Released probably that same year. Repress on late 1910-Mid 1912 black Victor Patents Label with three lines of patent information, ending in "Emile Berliner Victor Talking Machine Co.", cf. M. W. Sherman, Collector's Guide to Victor Records, 2nd ed., page 75. Notes William Kuali'i Sumner Ellis (1874 Honolulu, Hawaii - ?) played saxophone and stringed instruments with the Royal Hawaiian Band and directed the Royal Hawaiian Band's Glee Club. In July 1904, William, his younger brother, John S. Ellis (1877-1914), and two other, now unknown musicians recorded 34 selections for the Victor label under the name William S. Ellis and Ellis Bros. Glee Club or Ellis Brothers Glee Club Quartet. This is probably the earliest recording of a song that became a staple of the Hawaiian song book, "One, Two, Three," more often called "One, Two, Three, Four." The song's early popularity may be mea…
Directors & creators
W. S. Ellis And Ellis Bros. Glee Club, S. Kalama, Jack Alau
Subjects
78rpm, Hawaiian
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