1903–1925 · Columbia, Victor

Henry Burr

The ballad tenor of the acoustic era, and a Canadian.

If Billy Murray was the comic voice of the era, Henry Burr was its sentiment. A Canadian tenor who recorded under a small forest of pseudonyms, he specialised in the parlour ballad — mother songs, war songs, songs about home — and sold them by the million. He later became a fixture of the National Barn Dance, one of the few acoustic-era stars to survive into network radio.

12 recordings · Saint John, New Brunswick

Transfers from original discs and cylinders held by the Internet Archive. Dates and titles as given in the archive's metadata.