Hugo Frey
Hugo Frey (26 August 1873 – 13 February 1952) was an American pianist, violinist, composer, songwriter, conductor, and arranger. He was a prolific editor for piano sheet music, the primary audience being the "living room" pianist, providing simplified arrangements of some of the more difficult pieces. In the 1920s he was pianist with The Troubadours and led and arranged for the Manhattan Merrymakers, and was "a prolific piano roll editor". In 1921 Swiss classical pianist Rudolph Ganz described Frey as "the best of the composers of so-called bad music, and therefore preferable to the bad composers of so-called good music". |
Birth and Death Data: Born August 26, 1873, Died February 13, 1952
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1914 - 1934
Roles Represented in DAHR: composer, leader, piano, arranger, lyricist
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Recordings (Results 26-50 of 164 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | C-23859 | 12-in. | 3/19/1920 | Ching-a-ling's jazz bazaar | Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with 2 pianos and male vocal solo | instrumentalist, piano | |
Victor | C-24823 | 12-in. | 1/28/1921 | Sally | Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with piano duet | instrumentalist, piano | |
Victor | BVE-25307 | 10-in. | 8/25/1926 | Cho-Cho-San | Paul Whiteman Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | arranger | |
Victor | B-25307 | 10-in. | 5/18/1921 | Cho-Cho-San | Paul Whiteman Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | arranger | |
Victor | B-25614 | 10-in. | 9/20/1921 | Why, dear? | Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with piano duet | instrumentalist, piano | |
Victor | B-26231 | 10-in. | 3/3/1922 | Can you forget | Clyde Doerr Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Victor | B-26268 | 10-in. | 3/23/1922 | California | Clyde Doerr Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, piano | |
Victor | B-26269 | 10-in. | 3/23/1922 | Lovey dove | Clyde Doerr Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, piano | |
Victor | B-26337 | 10-in. | 5/3/1922 | Pick me up and lay me down in dear old Dixieland | Clyde Doerr Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, piano | |
Victor | B-26338 | 10-in. | 5/3/1922 | Lovable eyes | Clyde Doerr Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, piano | |
Victor | B-26901 | 10-in. | 9/27/1922 | To-morrow | Great White Way Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader, instrumentalist, piano | |
Victor | B-26902 | 10-in. | 9/27/1922 | Lovely Lucerne | Great White Way Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with yodeling | leader, instrumentalist, piano | |
Victor | B-27189 | 10-in. | 11/29/1922 | Rosalie | Great White Way Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | composer | |
Victor | B-27413 | 10-in. | 1/19/1923 | The clinging vine | Great White Way Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
Victor | B-27414 | 10-in. | 1/19/1923 | Don't be too sure | Great White Way Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
Victor | B-27628 | 10-in. | 2/28/1923 | Lady Butterfly | Great White Way Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
Victor | B-27629 | 10-in. | 2/28/1923 | Caroline | Great White Way Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
Victor | B-27657 | 10-in. | 3/14/1923 | Marchéta | Great White Way Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
Victor | B-27658 | 10-in. | 3/14/1923 | Gone | Great White Way Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
Victor | B-27801 | 10-in. | 4/4/1923 | Beside a babbling brook | Great White Way Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with whistling | leader | |
Victor | B-27802 | 10-in. | 4/4/1923 | Down among the sleepy hills of Ten-Ten-Tennessee | Great White Way Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
Victor | B-27822 | 10-in. | 4/12/1923 | Runnin' wild! | Great White Way Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, piano, leader | |
Victor | B-27823 | 10-in. | 4/12/1923 | Swingin' down the lane | Great White Way Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, piano, leader | |
Victor | B-27855 | 10-in. | 4/26/1923 | Yes! We have no bananas | Great White Way Orchestra ; Billy Murray | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
Victor | B-27856 | 10-in. | 4/26/1923 | Wild-flower | Great White Way Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with whistling | leader |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Frey, Hugo," accessed November 21, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/108917.
Frey, Hugo. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 21, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/108917.
"Frey, Hugo." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 21 November 2024.
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LCNAR: Frey, Hugo, 1873-1952 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90000902
Wikidata: Hugo Frey (musician) - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5933959
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