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Marie Dressler "Singing"
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 11:40 am
by Uncle Vanya
Our Dainty Little Marie Dressler performing "Rastus, Take Me Back!"
Recorded in '09 on Amberol 431, and re-issued on Blue Amberol 2001 after the success of the feature comedy film "Tillie's Punctured Romance" in 1915.
http://youtu.be/Jj_nh5ls_z4
Re: Marie Dressler "Singing"
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 8:09 pm
by Cody K
Gosh, this is great! Thanks for posting it -- I'd never heard it before. It must be her "drunken" inflections here that bring to mind, for me, her wonderful performance as Marthy in Anna Christie some twenty years later. What a gal -- and what a cylinder!
A couple early "shots" in her honor:
Re: Marie Dressler "Singing"
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 4:27 pm
by marcapra
Uncle Vanya, if you hadn't posted these very interesting and entertaining BA's, I wouldn't have known that they existed! I love old Marie Dressler films. How about
Dangerous Females (1929!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s51euoGWj0U
Re: Marie Dressler "Singing"
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 5:08 pm
by OrthoSean
Marie Dressler made more than just this one for Edison, I have "Marie Dressler's Working Girl Song" on two minute wax and the four minute wax Amberol of "He's My Soft Shell Crab On Toast", both also fun records! Sadly, both of my copies of "Crab" self destructed. It's a real shame that one never made it to BA, but "Rastus" did and I was lucky enough to get a nice clean copy of it some years back.
Sean
Re: Marie Dressler "Singing"
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 5:38 pm
by VintageTechnologies
That style of mixed talking and "singing" seems a strange kind of performance to my ears. It also reminds me of Edison recordings by Irene Franklin, "I've Got the Mumps", being an example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfUjO9JxhNY
Re: Marie Dressler "Singing"
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:48 am
by edisonplayer
I would love to find a copy of "Rastus,Take Me Back"on Blue Amberol.I have it on wax Amberol.I also have a 2 minute,"I'm Looking For An Angel"by her.edisonplayer