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Artist: Olive Goff Label:   Columbia Country: UK Catalogue: WT 52 Date: Dec 1925 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Olive Goff	Phyllis Has Such Charming Graces		Rate
B	Olive Goff	In Quelle Trine Morbide	Puccini	Rate

Notes

The message on the A side label reads:
"To Irene Asdaile, kindest thoughts always, Olive Goff.

B side label:
"Our happy work together will never be forgotten, Olive Goff" "December 1925"

Olive Goff was a soprano singer. Irene Asdaile was a pianist.

(A side arranged by: Jane Wilson)


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MrPasta SUBS 20th Jun 2023		Thanks everybody. It's amazing to think that you still never know what you might find in an otherwise ordinary collection of records.
xiphophilos 18th Jun 2023		Soprano Olive Goff received a rather harsh review from F. Gilbert Webb in the Musical News and Herald (Nov. 25, 1922), page 482, after her second performance at Aeolian Hall in London on November 15, 1922. Undeterred, she sang to a more friendly audience at the Annual Dinner of the Society of Old Friends in at Café Monico in London on February 28, 1926, according to The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal of March 1926. She also performed (receiving a slightly less positive review) at the 1927 Norwich Festival: https://www.jstor.org/stable/916254 According to the Musical Standard (vol. 37, 1931), page 26, she was born in London, had studied singing from childhood, and had at that point already toured the UK four times. She continued to perform at least until 1949, when she was a soloist at a concert of the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Royalton Kisch, at the Royal Albert Hall (source). This must be a private recording.
TheJudge 18th Jun 2023		Good work everybody! That's what I call 'collaborative'!
carryonsidney 18th Jun 2023		I agree with the Arr. Jane Wilson. I have tidied up this entry. Having listened carefully to the record YT I think we can be sure it is the same woman doing the singing on both sides. Since she being accompanied by piano I surmise Irene is playing it, as she has a few results come on the interweb as being a professional accompanist? Picture of Irene in action here
fixbutte 18th Jun 2023		Last part of my detective work, contradicting TheJudge: Under the title "Phyllis Has Such Charming Graces" it reads "arr. Jane Wilson", so she is not the performing artist but the arranger (of a possibly traditional song). So Olive Goff may be the artist on both sides if the vocals sound the same.
fixbutte 18th Jun 2023		Another reference to Olive Goff, soprano, on BBC's National Programme on Monday 22nd May 1939, 11:00 - see here.
fixbutte 18th Jun 2023		"Olive" seems quite certain when you look at the capital O in the "Our happy work together will never be forgotten" sentence. And I would bet on a lady's handwriting.
MrPasta SUBS 18th Jun 2023		And there's a reference here of an Irene Asdaile performing at a charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall in October 1916
carryonsidney 18th Jun 2023		Its possibly Olive Goff? I found a reference online to her being a soprano singer Albert Sammons [Albert Edward Sammons] (1886-1957), English violinist and composer [L. G. Sharpe, Haymarket; Olive Goff, soprano; Gerald Moore, pianist; Columbia New Process Records] Publication details: 'Programme and Book of Words SIXPENCE. L. G. SHARPE, 25, Haymarket, S.W.1.' Undated
fixbutte 18th Jun 2023		Clive could be Olive, although the only Olive Goff I found on the web had lived before 1925, see here.
MrPasta SUBS 18th Jun 2023		Thanks, TheJudge, for clearing some of that up. Yes, you're probably correct that the sides are listed in the wrong order. I should also add that it is a tad larger than 10 inches as it won't fit into a standard 10 inch sleeve. In the meantime I've added images without the black background. Can the black ones be removed please?
TheJudge 17th Jun 2023		I'd add that someone called Clive is not likely to tbe the artist given that both sides are clearly sung by a woman. I'll remoive the A-side artist but put Jane Wilson as the singer on the B-side. Could the sides be in the opposite order to the one you've submitted? The 'Phyllis' side has '-1' on the cat# and the Puccini has '-2'.
TheJudge 17th Jun 2023		The A-side is from Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut, the song being In quelle trine morbide from Act II. Side B - again from what's on the label - is the song Phyllis Has Such Charming Graces. There is a song of that title dating from the late 17th C., but I don't know if it's this one. Could the singer be called Jane Wilson? There was an American singer of that name, but the dates don't match up with this recording.
MrPasta SUBS 17th Jun 2023		I've never come across a white label Columbia like this. Perhaps a private or test pressing? I have no clue who is singing or what the song is but I believe the artist and title are written on the "A" side above the Columbia music logo but I can't make it out. Possibly "Marion"... The other writing writing on the labels appear to read "Our happy work together will never be forgotten" Clive Goff, December 1925 "Phyllis has such charming graces(?)" - Jane Wilson "To Irene Asdaile, Kindest Thought Always, Clive Goff" YT video of both sides... Any help gratefully received

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