Whisper to me in the starlight: Historical Recording and Credits

Catalogue description

Victor 18836. Matrix/Take: B-25739/2.

Male vocal solo, with xylophone and orchestra

Recording and performance details

• Catalogue date: 1921-11-01
• Original format: Sound recording
• Genre: Popular music
• Language: English
• Location as catalogued: Camden, New Jersey
• Collection: National Jukebox
• Repository: Recorded Sound Section, Library Of Congress
• Record label: Victor
• Catalogue number: 18836
• Matrix number: B-25739 (Matrix ID)
• Take number: 2
• Disc size: 10-inch
• Performance type: Vocal
• Catalogue subjects: Vocal; Victor; Popular music
• Named contributors: Steel, John — Vocalist -- Tenor Vocal; Rattay, Howard — Instrumentalist -- Xylophone; Pasternack, Josef — Conductor; Steel, John — Lyricist; Bourdon, Rosario — Instrumentalist -- Xylophone; Reitz, William H. — Instrumentalist -- Xylophone; Jarnagin, Jerry — Composer

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