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Alice Green (this is Olive Kline)
Victor 17954
1916
Song by Otto Harbach & Rudolf Friml
Olive Kline made records exclusively for the Victor Talking Machine Company, beginning in 1912 and ending in 1935. In contrast to many singers invited to make records after they had already established themselves as concert artists, she used a successful recording career as a springboard for a concert career.
Victor's 1922 catalog states, "Until a year or so ago she was a member of one of the highest-salaried quartets in the history of American church music, at the West End Collegiate Church in New York. Declining an offer to appear in opera, she nevertheless gave up this position to devote her entire time to concert work and the making of Victor records."
She was born in Amsterdam, New York. Though sources give different dates, her birth certificate establishes that she was born on July 7, 1887. When she was around ten, her family (she had two brothers) moved to Schenectady, where her father worked as a General Electric employee. She began high school in Schenectady and then went to St. Agnes Girls' School in Albany, New York.
Kline's father played piano and encouraged his daughter to pursue a concert career as a pianist, but finally her vocal talents became evident. Her first vocal teacher was Herbert Wilbur Greene, and she paid tribute to this teacher by adopting the nom de disque Alice Green for some recordings ("Alice," close to "Olive," was a natural choice).
Established as a soloist in prominent churches, she began recording as a solo artist in mid-1912 (she may have participated anonymously in ensemble recordings before this). In a February 16, 1976, interview with Merritt F. Malvern (the interview was recorded but never transcribed or made public), she recalled that Harry Macdonough, a member of the church quartet in which Kline was a substitute singer, invited her to make records: "A tenor was...the manager of the Victor office in New York, and during the sermon he wrote me a little note that said, 'How would you like to come down on Tuesday and make a test record for the Victor company?' Well, of course, I almost fell off my chair, I was so excited."
Her first record was "Spring" on Victor 17135, issued in September 1912. For the next few years she was issued on black label Victors and, beginning in 1917, on blue also.
Her name was never on purple label Victor discs--in the hierarchy of singers, Kline was not as elevated as fellow soprano Lucy Isabelle Marsh. Kline was given popular material that Marsh would never have been given.
After 1926 Kline was on some Red Seal Victors (as "Olive Kline") as well as some black label discs (as "Alice Green").
Starting in late 1915, for songs of a decidedly popular nature, beginning with the duet "They Didn't Believe Me" (credited to "Alice Green--Harry Macdonough," Victor 35491), she was credited on some black labels as Alice Green.
Alice Green (this is Olive Kline)
Victor 17954
1916
Song by Otto Harbach & Rudolf Friml
Olive Kline made records exclusively for the Victor Talking Machine Company, beginning in 1912 and ending in 1935. In contrast to many singers invited to make records after they had already established themselves as concert artists, she used a successful recording career as a springboard for a concert career.
Victor's 1922 catalog states, "Until a year or so ago she was a member of one of the highest-salaried quartets in the history of American church music, at the West End Collegiate Church in New York. Declining an offer to appear in opera, she nevertheless gave up this position to devote her entire time to concert work and the making of Victor records."
She was born in Amsterdam, New York. Though sources give different dates, her birth certificate establishes that she was born on July 7, 1887. When she was around ten, her family (she had two brothers) moved to Schenectady, where her father worked as a General Electric employee. She began high school in Schenectady and then went to St. Agnes Girls' School in Albany, New York.
Kline's father played piano and encouraged his daughter to pursue a concert career as a pianist, but finally her vocal talents became evident. Her first vocal teacher was Herbert Wilbur Greene, and she paid tribute to this teacher by adopting the nom de disque Alice Green for some recordings ("Alice," close to "Olive," was a natural choice).
Established as a soloist in prominent churches, she began recording as a solo artist in mid-1912 (she may have participated anonymously in ensemble recordings before this). In a February 16, 1976, interview with Merritt F. Malvern (the interview was recorded but never transcribed or made public), she recalled that Harry Macdonough, a member of the church quartet in which Kline was a substitute singer, invited her to make records: "A tenor was...the manager of the Victor office in New York, and during the sermon he wrote me a little note that said, 'How would you like to come down on Tuesday and make a test record for the Victor company?' Well, of course, I almost fell off my chair, I was so excited."
Her first record was "Spring" on Victor 17135, issued in September 1912. For the next few years she was issued on black label Victors and, beginning in 1917, on blue also.
Her name was never on purple label Victor discs--in the hierarchy of singers, Kline was not as elevated as fellow soprano Lucy Isabelle Marsh. Kline was given popular material that Marsh would never have been given.
After 1926 Kline was on some Red Seal Victors (as "Olive Kline") as well as some black label discs (as "Alice Green").
Starting in late 1915, for songs of a decidedly popular nature, beginning with the duet "They Didn't Believe Me" (credited to "Alice Green--Harry Macdonough," Victor 35491), she was credited on some black labels as Alice Green.
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