Fox Trot Medley No. 3, played by Frank Milne (1931) скачать в хорошем качестве

Fox Trot Medley No. 3, played by Frank Milne (1931)

(There Ought To Be A) Moonlight Saving Time (Irving Kahal-Harry Richman); Star Dust (Hoagy Carmichael-Mitchell Parish); I Found A Million Dollar Baby [from "Crazy Quilt"] (Harry Warren-Billy Rose-Mort Dixon); On The Beach With You (Jesse Greer-Tot Seymour); Now You're In My Arms (Allie Wrubel-Morton Downey). Welte roll 75542 Released October 1931. Frank C. Milne (1888-1959) was a Scottish-born pianist who became a very skilled piano roll arranger. A native of Dundee, Milne studied at the conservatory in Edinburgh. In 1905 he emigrated to the U.S. He married the Scottish-born Theodora in 1912. By 1917 he was an arranger for the Aristo Roll Company in Belleville, New Jersey. During his life in America, he and his wife lived in Newark, Asbury Park, and Belmar, New Jersey. From standard player rolls he went to work making recordings for the Duo-Art and AMPICO systems. He was able to create a lifelike performance using his knowledge of music combined with his knowledge of roll editing. As a pianist his name regularly appeared in radio logs published in east coast newspapers in 1922. He is listed as a pianist in the radio guide for WOR in New Jersey in April, 1929. In 1930 he was the Manager of the Aeolian Corporation, which now owned former rivals AMPICO and Duo-Art. After the Welte-Mignon Corp. became a victim of the Great Depression, Milne arranged the company's final roll recordings until mid-1932. By the mid-1930s he was the only one arranging rolls for reproducing pianos. He was so prolific he utilized several pseudonyms, such as Herb Winslow, Robert Farquhar, Edwin Lester, Ralph Addison, Sherry Brothers and Thompson Kerr, so that the company's artist roster had more variety. (Ironically, in April 1930 he gave the name "Farquhar Milne" to the New Jersey census taker.) The last AMPICO roll was issued in 1940. In 1942 he was employed by the Q.R.S. Piano Roll Company. He and his wife raised two children, Alexander (born 1914) and Jane (born 1920). He died at age 71 on May 22, 1959.