Recording Pioneer. A bass-baritone singer, stage performer and banjoist, he made many early gramophone recordings on disc and cylinder during the 1890s and the 1900s. From 1891 onwards he made banjo recordings for the Edison Phonograph Company under his own name. When he started to make vocal recordings, he did that under the Frank Stanley pseudonym. In the early 1900s he organized the Columbia Quartet, and in 1906 it was renamed the Peerless Quartet when it started to record for companies other than Columbia. He died of pleurisy on December 12, 1910, at his home in Orange.
Recording Pioneer. A bass-baritone singer, stage performer and banjoist, he made many early gramophone recordings on disc and cylinder during the 1890s and the 1900s. From 1891 onwards he made banjo recordings for the Edison Phonograph Company under his own name. When he started to make vocal recordings, he did that under the Frank Stanley pseudonym. In the early 1900s he organized the Columbia Quartet, and in 1906 it was renamed the Peerless Quartet when it started to record for companies other than Columbia. He died of pleurisy on December 12, 1910, at his home in Orange.
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