William F. Hooley
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William F. Hooley was a British-born American bass singer and pioneer recording artist who was popular as a solo singer, as a monologist, and as a member of several of the most successful vocal groups
Photoportrait of singers Ada Jones (seated center) and "Male Quartet" on Edison Records catalog supplement for November 1910. Quartet of singers surrounding Jones are identified as "clockwise from bottom left: Billy Murray, John Bieling, Steve Porter, and William F. Hooley".
John Bieling
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John Henry Bieling was an American tenor singer who was a pioneer recording artist in the early years of the twentieth century. He featured on thousands of recordings, especially as a member of The Ha
William F. Hooley
…New York. He sang in church choirs, glee clubs and operettas from the 1880s, and from about 1896 began recording as part of the Edison Quartet, with John Bieling, Samuel Holland Rous (who performed as S. H. Dudley), and Jere Mahoney. After Mahoney was replaced by John Scantlebury Macdonald, who used the pseudonym…
Bieling, ca. 1914