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Franklyn Baur
Franklyn Baur (April 5, 1903–February 24, 1950) was a popular tenor vocal recording artist.
Baur was born in New York and educated at Amherst. At 19, he was selected from over 50 candidates as principal tenor in the Park Avenue Baptist Church known as the John D. Rockefeller Church. His grandfather on the maternal side held the same position for many years in Henry Ward Beecher's Brooklyn church.
Recording career.
Baur made hundreds of recordings for about a dozen different recording companies,
Dancing Tambourine" by Paul Whiteman
- "The Desert Song" by Nat Shilkret, from the musical of the same name
- "Diane (I'm in Heaven when I See You Smile)" by Nat Shilkret as the Troubadours, vocal Franklyn Baur, Lewis James and Elliot Shaw
- "Diane (I'm in Heaven when I See You Smile)" by Franklyn Baur, accompanied Nat Shilkret Orchestra
- "The Doll Dance" by Nat Shilkret
- "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong