Girl tenor: recordings 1908-21
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COMPOSERS: Various
LABELS: Pearl GEMM
PERFORMER: Ruby Helder
CATALOGUE NO: CD9035
Ruby Helder, or ‘The Girl Tenor’, was born in 1896 and died in Hollywood in 1940 and sounds like any other mildly accomplished Victorian/Edwardian balladeer. Great she most certainly wasn’t, but her records are remarkable documents.