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Nora Bayes

Nora Bayes (1880 - 19 June 1928) was a popular United States

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entertainer of the early 20th century.

Born Leonora Goldberg to a Jewish family in Joliet, Illinois

Joliet, Illinois

Joliet is a city in Will County, Illinois and Kendall County, Illinois in the U.S. state of Illinois, located southwest of Chicago. It is the county seat of Will County....
, Bayes was performing professionally in vaudeville

Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a genre of a variety show prevalent on the theatre in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrel show, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque....
in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
by age 18. She toured from San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

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to New York City

New York City

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and became a star both on vaudeville and Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
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Nora Bayes (1880 - 19 June 1928) was a popular United States

United States

Joliet, Illinois

Vaudeville

Chicago

San Francisco, California

New York City

Broadway theatre

Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laughter. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy....
and actor

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
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In 1908, she married singer/songwriter

Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
Jack Norworth

Jack Norworth

Jack Norworth was a United States of America songwriter, singer and vaudeville performer.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Norworth is credited as co-writer of a number of Tin Pan Alley hits....
. The two toured together and were credited for collaborating on a number of tunes, including their huge hit Shine On, Harvest Moon
Shine On, Harvest Moon

"Shine On, Harvest Moon" is the name of a popular early-1900s song credited to Jack Norworth and his wife Nora Bayes. It was one of a series of moon related Tin Pan Alley songs of the era....
, which the pair debuted in Florenz Ziegfeld

Florenz Ziegfeld

Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. , called Flo Ziegfeld, was an American Broadway theatre impresario. He is best known for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies , inspired by the Folies Berg?res of Paris....
's Follies of 1908
Ziegfeld Follies

The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway theatre in New York City from 1907 through 1931. They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air....
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Bayes made many phonograph records

Gramophone record

A gramophone record is an analog signal sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc....
, some with Norworth, for the Victor Talking Machine Company

Victor Talking Machine Company

The Victor Talking Machine Company was an United States corporation, the leading American producer of phonographs and gramophone record and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time....
and Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
. From 1924 through 1928, her accompanist was pianist Louis Alter

Louis Alter

Louis Alter was an United States piano, songwriter and composer. Alter was 13 when he began playing piano in theaters showing silent films. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Stuart Mason....
, who later was the songwriter of such tunes as "Manhattan Serenade

Manhattan Serenade

"Manhattan Serenade" was composed by Louis Alter in 1928, with lyrics added years later by Harold Adamson. It was a hit record for Swing Era big bands Harry James and Tommy Dorsey ....
," "Nina Never Knew

Nina Never Knew

"Nina Never Knew" is a popular music song with music by Louis Alter and lyrics by Milton Drake, published in 1952 in music.Recordings that charted in 1952 were by the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra on RCA Victor Records and by Johnny Desmond on Coral Records ....
" and "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?"

In 1928, Nora Bayes contracted cancer and died during surgery. She was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery

Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx

Located in The Bronx, Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemetery in New York City. It opened as a rural cemetery in 1863, out in "the country," in what was then southern Westchester County, New York, which was annexed to New York City in 1874....
in the Bronx, New York. On April 11, 2006, under the terms of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, Nora Bayes was added to the National Recording Registry with the following citation:

"Over There," Nora Bayes (1917) - Inextricably associated in popular imagination with World War I, Nora Bayes’ recording introduced George M. Cohan

George M. Cohan

George Michael Cohan , known publicly as George M. Cohan, was an United States entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, Film director, and Theatrical producer....
’s song and became an international hit. Cohan had specifically requested that Bayes be the first singer to release his composition. A former member of the Ziegfeld Follies
Ziegfeld Follies

The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway theatre in New York City from 1907 through 1931. They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air....
, an extremely popular vaudevillian and a Broadway star, she recorded a number of other songs to boost morale during the war and performed extensively for the soldiers.

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External links

photo gallery at NYP Library
at Internet Broadway Database