Russell Dinsmore Hunting specialized in comedy skits featuring Hunting's Irish character of Michael Casey.
Using the name Russell Hunting, he eventually became more important to the industry as a businessman than performer.
He was born on May 8, 1864, in West Roxbury, Massachusetts (near Boston).
In 1893, Hunting recorded the earliest version of the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" (Columbia Graphophone Grand cylinder #9649).
As a young man he was a dramatic actor in the Boston Theater Company. Fred W. Gaisberg writes on page 8 of The Music Goes Round (New York: Macmillan, 1942), "Russell Hunting at the age of 21 had been a member of the Edwin Booth Company...For nine years he was a member of the Boston Museum Stock Company and was for three years its stage manager. After this he acted as stage manager in Meyer Lutz's extravaganza 'Faust Up To Date,' playing the role of Mephistopheles. During his spare time he earned thousands of dollars recording his inimitable Irish scenes from life..."
In the early 1890s enjoyed success with cylinders of "Michael Casey" Irish comedy skits, for which he frequently assumed multiple parts and supplied various sound effects. Titles include "Michael Casey at the Telephone," "Casey at the Klondike Gold Mines," "Casey Exhibiting His Panorama," "Casey Joins the Masons," "Casey as the Dude in a Street Car," and "Casey at Denny Murphy's Wake."
In 1893, Hunting recorded the earliest version of the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" (Columbia Graphophone Grand cylinder #9649).
In 1896, Hunting operated a phonograph business with Charles M. Carlson at 45 Clinton Place in Manhatten. On June 24, 1896, vice detective Anthony Comstock visited the shop and inquired after specific titles. The next day he obtained a warrant for Hunting's arrest due to the sale of cylinders containing "questionable" material.
From late 1895 to late 1897 he made over a dozen Berliners.
"Michael Casey Taking the Census," cut for various companies, was very popular. Edison's National Phonograph Company had James H. White (called Jim White on records) cover it in 1902, years after Hunting had introduced it.
Soon after Hunting left the United States in 1898 to work in England, other artists--Joseph Gannon, Jim White, John Kaiser, George Graham--recorded Casey skits.
In 1897 advertisements cited Hunting as manager of the Universal Phonograph Company in New York City (he was succeeded by Mitchell Marks). The company had a recording studio at 21 East 20th Street, near its parent firm, Joseph W. Stern and Company, at 45 East 20th Street. The publisher started the cylinder company in hopes that records would create hits of songs owned by the publishing company.
Using the name Russell Hunting, he eventually became more important to the industry as a businessman than performer.
He was born on May 8, 1864, in West Roxbury, Massachusetts (near Boston).
In 1893, Hunting recorded the earliest version of the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" (Columbia Graphophone Grand cylinder #9649).
As a young man he was a dramatic actor in the Boston Theater Company. Fred W. Gaisberg writes on page 8 of The Music Goes Round (New York: Macmillan, 1942), "Russell Hunting at the age of 21 had been a member of the Edwin Booth Company...For nine years he was a member of the Boston Museum Stock Company and was for three years its stage manager. After this he acted as stage manager in Meyer Lutz's extravaganza 'Faust Up To Date,' playing the role of Mephistopheles. During his spare time he earned thousands of dollars recording his inimitable Irish scenes from life..."
In the early 1890s enjoyed success with cylinders of "Michael Casey" Irish comedy skits, for which he frequently assumed multiple parts and supplied various sound effects. Titles include "Michael Casey at the Telephone," "Casey at the Klondike Gold Mines," "Casey Exhibiting His Panorama," "Casey Joins the Masons," "Casey as the Dude in a Street Car," and "Casey at Denny Murphy's Wake."
In 1893, Hunting recorded the earliest version of the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" (Columbia Graphophone Grand cylinder #9649).
In 1896, Hunting operated a phonograph business with Charles M. Carlson at 45 Clinton Place in Manhatten. On June 24, 1896, vice detective Anthony Comstock visited the shop and inquired after specific titles. The next day he obtained a warrant for Hunting's arrest due to the sale of cylinders containing "questionable" material.
From late 1895 to late 1897 he made over a dozen Berliners.
"Michael Casey Taking the Census," cut for various companies, was very popular. Edison's National Phonograph Company had James H. White (called Jim White on records) cover it in 1902, years after Hunting had introduced it.
Soon after Hunting left the United States in 1898 to work in England, other artists--Joseph Gannon, Jim White, John Kaiser, George Graham--recorded Casey skits.
In 1897 advertisements cited Hunting as manager of the Universal Phonograph Company in New York City (he was succeeded by Mitchell Marks). The company had a recording studio at 21 East 20th Street, near its parent firm, Joseph W. Stern and Company, at 45 East 20th Street. The publisher started the cylinder company in hopes that records would create hits of songs owned by the publishing company.
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