April 18, 1923 - Welcome Axel

 

 

 

 

 

 

On this Day April 18, 1923

 

Here's how the Cotesfield Department section of the Howard County Herald reported the April 18th birth of Axel Christian Boilesen's in their Thursday, April 26, 1923 edition:

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Chris Boilsen (sic) on Wednesday morning, a bright little baby boy, with Dr. Arnold of St. Paul and Mrs. Wm. Lint, in attendance. All concerned are doing nicely, as well as circumstances will allow, as the mother had been suffering with pleurisy for several days before the arrival of the baby. She is resting very comfortably at this writing (Monday).

Axel was named for his late cousin Axel Chris Boilesen, eldest son of his Uncle Hans Boilesen (brother of Chris Boilesen) who passed away on June 15, 1922 at the age of 13.

On this Day April 18, 1923

April 18, 1923 - Opening Day for Yankee Stadium

Recordings made on April 18, 1923

Most of these records can be heard by going to this DAHR link and selecting respective icon

The April 18 list includes the Victor 'Trial' recording of Barney Google sung by George Price. The release of that record from 'Take 6' would be nine days later as Victor Record 19066, see below.

Edison released their recording of Barney Google by Billy Jones and Ernest Hare a little later in 1923 and it was that record that Dad and I played in the 1960's on our Edison Amberola 75 machine. Dad remembered listening to Barney Google in his youth along with reading the Barney Google comic strips he enjoyed in the funnies, i.e., funny papers, comic strips, etc. Here is a link to that 1923 Edison recording of Barney Google, performed by Billy Jones and Ernest Hare. (Courtesy of UC Santa Barbara Library - Issue Number: Edison Blue Amberol: 4757. Dubbed from Edison Diamond Disc matrix: 8923-A, August(?) 1923).

 

Barney Google Sheet Music, Published by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York 1923

Courtesy Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, Johns Hopkins

 

 

Here's a link to Axel playing On the Beach Medley in 2009 on that Amberola 75 (Edison Blue Amberol Record No. 2971, released in 1916).

 

 

 

 

Victor would issue Barney Google sung by George Price on April 27, 1923 (Victor Matrix No. 27775 Take 6) Courtesy of DAHR and UC Santa Barbara Library.

LISTEN to George Price sing Barney Google

 

 

Barney Google, Edison Diamond Disc Record by Billy Jones and Ernest Hare (Old King Tut released in June 1923 was on the flipside - see Phonographia's Tut-Mania for more Tut phonograph ephemera)

 

 

 

 

Watch This Baby Grow! The Talking Machine World, March 1923

Other Popular Culture Ads from 1923

October 1923 Palmolive Soap, The Ladies Home Journal

September 1923, The Ladies Home Journal

1923 Chevrolet Ad

The General Motors Building, Detroit was dedicated in 1923

The corporation that by the 1950's would be associated with the folklore wisdom 'What's Good for General Motors is good for the country" and the often repeated "As General Motors, so goes the nation."

Jell-o advertisement, ca. 1923 "America's most famous dessert"

Perhaps not in Cotesfield, Nebraska but 1923 was the Jazz Age and the beginning of a New Era

The Jordan Motor Car Co. Ad, The Saturday Evening Post, June 23, 1923

 

 

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