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“On This Day in the History of Recorded Sound…”

March 29, 1953: Died: Arthur Fields, songwriter and baritone recording artist.

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So many great recordings by Arthur Fields.

And on so many different labels.

He died from a hospital fire. It's shocking how frequent hospital fires occured in the 20th century.

Damfino59 wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2026 7:40 pm So many great recordings by Arthur Fields.

And on so many different labels.

The late Edison recordings under the group "Arthur Fields & his Assassinators" are some of his best in my opinion!