THE BROX SISTERS - Compilation by Jean Trombone

THE BROX SISTERS
As BROX SISTERS ( Bobbe, Lorayne e Patricia) foram precursoras dos trios vocais femininos nos anos 20. Vieram bem antes das Boswell e das Andrews. Este trabalho de compilação nos foi enviado pelo incansável pesquisador de raridades, JEAN TROMBONE
que - como sabemos, é francês mas fez um "trabalho de chinês", a partir de vídeos das BS. Jean converteu os vídeos para mp3, juntou tudo, zipou, upou, produziu o texto e, de quebra, disponibilizou os vídeos: eu só tive o trabalho de postar no blog e correr pro abraço. Valeu, mais uma vez, grande JEAN!
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THE BR0X SISTERS
Before the Andrews Sisters, before the Boswell Sisters, one of the first sister recording acts were the Brox Sisters. The Brox Sisters was a American trio of singing sisters, enjoying their greatest popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s. The members were Bobbe (born Dagmar in 1900, died 2 May 1999 age 98), Lorayne (11 November 1900 - 14 June, 1993) and Patricia (born Kathleen, 14 June 1903 - 1988). The family name was "Brock"; changed to "Brox" for theater marquees. They grew up in Tennessee and performed with Southern accents. Their career began touring on Vaudeville in the United States and Canada in the 1910s. They hit it big on Broadway at the start of the 1920s. They moved to Los Angeles in the late 1920s. The act broke up in the early 1930s as the sisters got married; they made their last professional reunion appearance on radio in 1939. The trio performed on Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue from 1921 to 1924, at the New York Theatre. Berlin's hit song "Everybody Step" was written for and debuted by the sisters. The trio performed on Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue from 1921 to 1924, at the New York Theatre. Berlin's hit song "Everybody Step" was written for and debuted by the sisters. In 1925 and 1926, they performed in the musical comedy The Cocoanuts, with the Marx
Brothers. In 1927, they appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 at the New Amsterdam Theatre with comedian Eddie Cantor. Brox Sisters - Learn To Do The Strut (1923). A Small clip of the movie "King Of Jazz" Starring the Brox Sisters and the Rhythm Boys. King of Jazz was the nineteenth all-talking motion picture filmed entirely in two-color Technicolor (not just color sequences). The movie included the first Technicolor animated cartoon segment by animators Walter Lantz and William Nolan. King of Jazz was the first motion picture to use a pre-recorded soundtrack made independently of the actual filming. The Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Harry Barris, and Al Rinker) sang Mississippi Mud, So the Bluebirds and the Blackbirds Got Together, I'm a Fisherman, Bench in the Park, and Happy Feet in the film. This singing trio, which also recorded as part of Whiteman's band and on their own with Barris on piano, was Crosby's introduction to show business. King of Jazz marked the first film appearance of the popular crooner, Bing Crosby, who, at the time, was a member of The Rhythm Boys, a vocal trio with the Whiteman Orchestra. Starring: Paul Whiteman, John Boles, Laura La Plante, Jeanette Loff, Bing Crosby, Al Rinker and Harry Barris. Victor master B 30972-2, rec. Camden, October 4 1924. Josephine "Bobbe" Brock, Eunice "Lorayne" Brock, and Kathleen "Patricia" Brock with Arthur Johnston (piano). Although immensely popular in their time, the Brox Sisters made comparatively few recordings, and two thirds of their output of roughly 30 published titles were made in the years before microphone recording was introduced, so those had a comparatively short catalogue life. But their recordings are always great fun, especially when (as in this case) they have one of the best vaudeville pianists of their time (and a great composer, too!) to accompany them. Ziegfeld Follies Medley Parts 1+2 (Berlin),1926 by the Nat Shilkret Victor Orchestra on vis 35845 12 in. concert record,featuring Fairchild+Rainger,The Brox Sisters and Franklyn Baur. Songs include "Shaking The Blues Away","Ooh!,Maybe it's You","Jingle Jangle","Rainbow Of Girls","It All Belongs To Me","Tickling The Ivories","It's Up To The Band"+"IT
All Belongs To Me".
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MINHA OPINIÃO: a história do trio está contada aí em cima, detalhadamente. Resta dizer que esta fantástica compilação reúne raríssimas gravações originais das notáveis BROX SISTERS, um dos primeiros (senão o primeiro) trios vocais femininos a fazer sucesso nos palcos da Broadway. No cinema, o trio cantou no antológico filme "O Rei do Jazz", ao lado dos "Rhythm Boys", conjunto vocal do qual participava o então principiante BING CROSBY. Certamente este é um dos álbuns mais raros do nosso acervo, graças à inestimável colaboração do meu querido amigo Jean Trombone.

(*) Vale a pena assistir aos vídeos, incluídos no arquivo.
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THE BROX SISTERS - Compilation by Jean Trombone

THE BROX SISTERS:
Bobbe Brock
Lorayne Brock
Patricia Brock

TRACKS/FAIXAS:
1. Do I
2.Learn to do the strut
3. Iyone, my Iyone
4.Mandy, make up your mind
5. Red hot mama
6.Cover me up with me
7.Kentucky way of saying good morning
8.KIng of jazz
9.Remember
10.Crying for the Carolines
11.Hang on to me
12.Just you, just me
13.Falling in love again