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\"Victor<\/p>\n

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“South Sea Rose”
\nGeorge Olsen And His Music; Ethel Shutta, vocal
\n(Victor 22213-B)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0November 3, 1929<\/p>\n

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“What Do I Care”
\nGeorge Olsen And His Music; Ethel Shutta, vocal
\n(Victor 22213-A)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0November 3, 1929<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/George-Olsen-And-His-Music-What-Do-I-Care.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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From the Edward Mitchell collection<\/a>, here is a record by George Olsen<\/a> and His Music with the vocal on both sides provided by Olsen’s wife, actress Ethel Shutta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“South Sea Rose” is the title song from the 1929 comedy film South Sea Rose<\/em><\/a>, an early all-sound film of which no known copies have survived.\u00a0 This recording will be the second version of the song in Radio Dismuke’s playlist – the other is by the A&P Gypsies<\/a>, from another record in Eddie Mitchell’s collection that he let me make a transfer of for the station a few years ago.<\/p>\n

“What Do I Care” comes from the 1929 musical stage production Harry Carroll’s Revue<\/em> at the Music Box Theater<\/a> in Hollywood, California. Harry Carroll<\/a> was the composer for several Broadway productions and for his own musical revues that appeared on the vaudeville circuits throughout the 1920s.<\/p>\n

For his 1929 revue, Carroll secured a long-term lease of the Music Box Theater and renamed it Harry Carroll’s Music Box Theatre – apparently with the intent of staging productions there on an ongoing basis.\u00a0 An advertisement for the production boasted an “all-star cast of 70,” including “40 wonderful girls.”<\/p>\n

Carroll’s venture was not successful. The show closed after five weeks, and Carroll was forced to sell his beach house in Santa Monica to pay for the production’s debts.<\/p>\n

“What Do I Care” was more successful than the show that originated it. In the months after the production closed, several artists recorded it.\u00a0 Carroll, Jesse Greer, <\/a>and Raymond Klages<\/a> shared the song’s composer credits.<\/p>\n

This recording will be the second version of “What Do I Care” in Radio Dismuke’s playlist – the other being by Adrian Schubert’s<\/a> Orchestra, issued under the pseudonym of the Imperial Dance Orchestra.<\/p>\n

Hollywood’s Music Box Theatre still stands and is now called the Henry Fonda Theatre. At some point, its facade was “modernized”\/uglified and either replaced or covered with metal paneling that looks similar to the side of a shipping container.\u00a0 However, its interior still has many of its 1920s-era details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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