Frank Munn - Too Many Parties And Too Many Pals

Largely forgotten today, Frank Munn (1894-1953) was a very popular vocalist from the mid-twenties through the mid-fourties. He cut hundreds of sides and performed in over 2,000 broadcasts. He was known as ‘The Golden Voice of Radio”. He rarely was to be seen on stage in live concerts, though. He preferred the intimacy of the recording studio. Thomas Ernest Hare (1883-1939) was a bass/baritone who recorded prolifically during the 1920s and 1930s, finding fame as a radio star on The Happiness Boys radio program. Hare's recording career began in 1918. He recorded with the Cleartone Four, the Crescent Trio, the Harmonizers Quartet and the Premier Quartet. He made a series recordings with Al Bernard in the late 1910s and the start of the 1920s. As a soloist, he worked under a variety of names (Wallace Daniels, Arthur Grant, Henry Jones, Robert Judson, Walter Lang, Walter Leslie, Roy Roberts, Bob Thomas, Bob Thompson, "Hobo" Jack Turner, as well as Frank Munn, as said before also featured on this disc). This song is a remarkable and interesting composition. Stylistically still leaning towards the 1910s, the theme definitely is of the Roaring Twenties and, more generally, about the timeless theme of generation conflicts. “Ah, today’s youth!” is all but a modern problem, as is obvious from this outstanding 1926 recording.