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Minnie Emmett

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in 1894 or 1895, were advertised as "the first true records of a high soprano voice". She sang popular sentimental and comic songs like "Sweet Marie" and "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley" and remained in the
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Emmett was not the first woman to make commercial records, but was the first to gain prominence and influence in the field. A July 1898 article in
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called her "the most successful and the most popular woman engaged in record making". Her first recordings, published by the
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Emmett also sang in productions of the Duquesne Garden Stock Opera Company and the Graw Opera Company.
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in 1898 and adding operatic solos and duets (with Roger Harding) and older standards (Ben Bolt,
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songs) to her repertoire. She continued recording into the early 1900s, making discs for
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was a singer and pioneer recording artist active in New York in the 1890s and 1900s.
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Though many details of her personal life are unclear, recording pioneer
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that he'd seen Emmett in a home for retired actors in the late 1930s.
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of similar material. She recorded a few cylinders for the
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Albert Campbell
Jim Walsh
Ada Jones
"Gallery of Talent Employed for Making Records"
Catalogue of Standard New Jersey Records for the Phonograph
Two-minute Brown Wax and XP Cylinder Records of the Columbia Phonograph Company
"Minnie Emmett (vocalist : soprano vocal)"
"Theatrical Notes"
Newspapers.com
"Minnie Emmett: When Bad Genealogy Happens to Good People"
"Minnie Emmett"
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