Parties

Holidays

Songs

Record Reference #

Recorded Date

Contents

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6a

1.2.43

New Year’s weekend: Bill “I’ll Never Smile Again”) & Kathleen (“Careless”) singing; Hohmann family announcing they are finally going home, George

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6b

1.3.43

Margie Dalton and Kathleen sing solos

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15a

1.7.43

Kathleen: “You Say the Sweetest Things” with “Glenn Gray” as announcer “Take it away, Kathleen.”

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15b

1.7.43

Kathleen: “My Heart Tells Me,” “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” (end cut off)

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14a

2.4.43

Kathleen: My Gal Sal

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14b

2.4.43

Kathleen: “You Made Me Love You,” “Green Eyes,” “Somebody Stole My Gal.”

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12a

2.4.43

Kitty Mom: “Danny Boy” (CD by CVD Productions)

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12b

2.4.43

Kathleen: “Moonlight Becomes You” (CD by CVD Productions)

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3a

10.29.43

Kathleen: “Same Old Shillelagh” (fragment), incl. dee-da-dee-da-dee

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3b

10.29.43

Mary Hohmann: “You’re Gonna Lose Your Gal”; “Nobody’s Sweetheart Now”

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19a

10.29.43

Mary Hohmann: “My Guy,” “Darktown Strutters’ Ball”

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19b

10.29.43

Kathleen: “Paperdoll”

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21a

12.2.43

Kathleen: “Same Old Shillelagh” (with recorded piano?)

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21b

12.2.43

Kathleen: “McNamara’s Band” (with recorded piano?) – gets mad, Mary takes over, with comments

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26a

1943

Intros by Jim Crowe – Kitty Mom, Mary, glamorous Kathleen, Joe, Peggy, Bernice, George, Bill. Lines about Barrett’s Market. Scrambled “Show Me the Way to Go Home.”

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26b

1943

Quiz Kids ($64 Question), Mary Hohmann M.C.: Kitty Mom, Kathleen (Hollywood movie No Men, “Too Young or Too Old”), Ewald, Peggy Crowe, others

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16a

12.6.43

Jim Crowe: “Old Sidecar,” “River Shannon” Intro by Joe Crowe? (end cut off)

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16b

No date

Quiz Show: Bill Barrett as emcee, primarily Joe Crowe, with Jim Crowe at the end.

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24a

12.24.43

Christmas: Joe & Peggy Crowe (“Tea for Two”); Kitty Mom, Kathleen, Jim G? – good phrases

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24b

12.24.43

Kathleen, Peggy Crowe: “Silent Night,” “Auld Lang Syne,” “Over There,” “Coast Guard Song”

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9a

12.26.43

“Drop It or Pick It Up” contest ($64 question): Kathleen, Mary, Bill Barrett; Joe, Jim, Peggy Crowe; Berniece Walsh

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9b

12.26.43

All sing: All (“Tavern in the Town”); Kathleen (“Do Right”), Mary (“Daisy”), Bill Barrett (“Heard that Song Before”); Joe (“Darktown Strutters Ball”), Jim (“Phil the Fluter”), Peggy Crowe (“Army Life”); Kitty Mom (“Kentucky Home”); Berniece Walsh (no singing)

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23b

1.20.44

Kathleen: “It Started All Over Again” and “Pistol-Packin’ Mama”

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23a

1.20.44

Kathleen: “My Ideal” and “My Last Goodbye” with intro by Bill Barrett

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25a

1.31.44

Kathleen: “As Time Goes By,” “You’ll Never Know”

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25b

1.31.44

Kathleen: “Drunk Last Night,” “Daisy,” “Band Played On,” “Take You Home, Kathleen,” parrot joke

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7a

2.12.44

Valentine Party: Girl Talk. Mary Hohman, Mary Kay Sties (?), Lucille (?)

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7b

No date

Bill Barrett with friends Jo and Jerry (who?)

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4a

2.12.44

Valentine Party: Drunk Last Night; McNamara’s Band

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11a

2.12.44

Valentine Party: Kathleen: “Too Young or Too Old” Joe Foley: “You Tell Me Your Dreams” Lester: “I’m Gonna Eat Worms” “Hard to Get Gal” Mary: “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love” Male: “You Made Me Love Your” & others – general nonsense

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11b

2.12.44

Valentine Party: Kitty Mom: “Love Thy Neighbor” “Danny Boy”

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13a

2.12.44

Valentine Party: Joe Foley, Ewald “Old Mill Stream” all group: “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” “Mares Eat Oats” “Buy a Paperdoll” “Shimmy Like My Sister Kate” Male: “By the Old Canal Pagoda” “Halls of Montezuma”

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4b

3.21.44

Reading: I’m one of the fellows who is fighting for democracy

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2a

10.28.44

About 1AM at a Curran Halloween party. Raucous… Mary, Kath, K’Mom… soldier home on leave “havin’ a swell time”

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2b

10.28.44

Halloween 1944, side 2. Mary… Irish songs (Did Your Mother Come from Ireland, Shillelagh, Danny Boy, McNamara, Irish Eyes, Drunk Last Night fragment, Let Me Call You Sweetheart)

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12.44

Kathleen: “Making Believe” (Flip side is ruined)

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20a

12.25.44

Christmas gathering: Intro by Ralph (who?); Kathleen: “Green Eyes”; Kitty Mom (“Silent Night”), Bill, Mary, Les

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20b

12.25.44

Christmas gathering: Bill, “Don’t Fence Me In;” Kathleen, “Don’t Fence Me In;” Les, “Eat Worms;” Kitty Mom (distant laugh, “Irish Eyes”), Ralph, someone singing Spanish (“Cielito Lindo”), ending comments about cutting record

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5a

12.31.44

New Year’s Eve party: hello, joe; I want a little lovin’; I want a girl just like the girl that married dear old dad; auld lang syne (Mary, Kathleen, Joe Crowe)

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5b

12.31.44

New Year’s Eve party: mostly Melba worrying about what to record, “Some of these days” (mostly Mary, Melba)

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8a

10.45

Halloween Party: Lester, Felix, Joe Crowe. “Hard to get Betty”; “I’m gonna eat worms.”

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8b

12.31.45

Jim & Mary Frances Crowe: “Phil the Fluter’s Ball,” “The Irish Jubilee”

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13b

1.7.46

Kathleen: “Atcheson, Topeka & Santa Fe,” “Donegal,” “Patty McGinty’s Goat”

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27a

undated

Male singer: “Paddy McGinty’s Goat” [The Recordisc Corp. label]

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27b

undated

Les Hohmann, Sullivan (?): “Did Your Mother Come from Ireland,” “Paddy McGinty” phrases, Les: what the hellsamatter with you Irish…; “Margie”

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18a

10.1.46

Walter Price, Kathleen Barrett: “Don’t You Know I Care,” “Darktown Strutters’ Ball,” “Bridget O’Flynn”

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18b

10.1.46

Walter Price, Kathleen Barrett: “Don’t You Know I Care” – trying to set it up, mostly Kathleen laughing and directing

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1a

10.1.46

Walter Price: “Embraceable You,” Kathleen voice, Walter: “Sweet Lorraine – poor quality

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1b

10.1.46

Kathleen: “Since Love Is Gone”; Kathleen & Walter: “It Had to Be You”

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28

Undated: 11.2. 1946?

Jack Keenoy doing Jimmy Durante and others, with “pretty boy” Walter Price and Kathleen Barrett (“Same Old Shillelagh,” “Donegal”)

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10

1.9.54

Susan Price: Ball & Jack; Nursery Rhymes; Mary Had a Little Lamb (CD made by CVD Productions)