Vocalist's Showcase Presenting Songs By :

AILEEN STANLEY - Early Jazz & Blues  Recordings -
Vaudeville Favorite - ENCORE 2 EDITION

(RECORDED 1920-1923)

Aileen Stanley Encore 2 presents some of her 1st recordings and
includes recordings that are more blues and jazz oriented.

Scarce recordings from Ok, Edison, Pathé and Vocalion labels are included in this CD release.

The version of My Man recorded on Ok is completely different than the well known version. It is a more cheerful and upbeat version.
We have not heard this version recorded by any other artist.

Our filtering process preserves the original sound and significantly
reduces surface noise and other imperfections in the original source material.

Aileen Stanley (1897 - 24 March 1982) was popular on records and in vaudeville.
Her stage appearances billed her as "The Phonograph Girl" and "The Girl With The Personality".
This CD release includes most of her electrically recorded discs from the mid 1920’s through the early 1930’s.
Her great personality and jazz style comes through very clearly in these recordings.

Stanley was born as Maude Elsie Aileen Muggeridge in Chicago, Illinois. In her childhood, with the urging of her widowed mother,
she and her older brother Stanley sang and danced in vaudeville as Stanley and Aileen.
After her brother left the act she started performing solo, forming her stage name by reversing the name of the old family billing.

Stanley performed on vaudeville and in cabarets. In 1920 she made a hit in New York City in the review show "Silks And Satins".
She made the first of her numerous recordings the same year.
Throughout the 1920s she would record prolifically.
The majority of her records were for the Victor Talking Machine Company, but she also recorded with other record labels with recording studios in the New York City area.
They included Edison, Pathe, Okeh, Brunswick, Vocalion, Gennett and others. Many of her records sold well at the time.

Stanley was said to have invested heavily in the stock market, and was one of the many who lost most of their money in the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
About 1931 she moved to London, where she made more records for HMV from 1934 through 1937.
In her later years she worked as a singing teacher and vocal coach.

Aileen Stanley died in Los Angeles, California.

TRACK LISTING
 

1- MY LITTLE BIMBO DOWN ON THE BAMBO ISLE REC 8/1920 - VIC 18691A

2- BROADWAY BLUES  REC 8/1920 - VIC 18691B

3- I'VE GOT THE BLUES FOR OLD KENTUCKY HOME REC 10/1920 - VIC 18703A

4- SINGIN' THE BLUES TILL MY DADDY COMES HOME REC 10/1920 - VIC 18703B

5- WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN THERE AIN’T NO JAZZ REC 10/1920 - OK 4221

6- LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE WITH DANGEROUS EYES  REC 10/1920 - OK 4221

7- SHE WALKS IN HER HUSBANDS SLEEP REC 12/1920 - EDISON 50729

8- SCANDINAVIA REC 2/1921 -  EDISON 50761

9- MY MAMMY REC 2/1921 OK 4275A

10- GONE ARE THE DAYS REC 2/1921 OK 4275B

11- MY MAN REC 5/1921 OK 4326A

12- I’VE GOT THE TRAVELING CHOO CHOO BLUES 5/1921 OK 4326B

13- I’M NOBODY’S GAL REC 7/1921 PATHÉ 020621 

14- ANNA IN INDIANA REC 7/1921 PATHÉ 020621

15- ALL BY MYSELF REC 5/1921 - VIC 18774A

16- HOME AGAIN BLUES REC 4/1921 - VIC 18760B

17- I WONDER WHERE MY SWEET DADDY'S GONE REC 5/1921 - VIC 18784B

18- I'VE GOT THE JOY'S REC 8/1921 - VIC 18799A

19- SWEET INDIANA HOME REC 6/1922 - VIC 18922A

20- DIXIE HIGHWAY REC 6/1922 - VIC 18935A

21- LOUISIANA REC 5/1923 - VOCALION A4614

22- I’LL HOP SKIP & JUMP INTO MAMMY ARM’S REC 5/1923 - VOCALION B4614

23- ON THE ISLE OF WICKI WACKI WOO REC 6/1923 - EDISON 51207