Donald Voorhees
Donald Voorhees (July 26, 1903– January 10, 1989) was an American composer and conductor who received an Emmy Award nomination for "Individual Achievements in Music" for his work on the television series, The Bell Telephone Hour. |
Birth and Death Data: Born July 26, 1903 (Allentown), Died January 10, 1989 (Cape May Court House)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1926 - 1928
Roles Represented in DAHR: leader, conductor, piano, songwriter
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= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.
Recordings
| Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia | W142663 | 10-in. | 9/21/1926 | Climbing up the ladder of love | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Harold Yates | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W142664 | 10-in. | 9/21/1926 | Hugs and kisses | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Harold Yates | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W143185 | 10-in. | 12/14/1926 | One alone | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Charles Kaley | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W143186 | 10-in. | 12/14/1926 | The riff song | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Shannon Quartet | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal quartet | leader | |
| Columbia | W143346 | 10-in. | 1/24/1927 | Who do you love? | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Charles Kaley | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W143347 | 10-in. | 1/24/1927 | Muddy water | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Charles Kaley | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W143696 | 10-in. | 3/21/1927 | The same old moon | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Charles Kaley | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W143697 | 10-in. | 3/21/1927 | Dancing the devil away | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Charles Kaley | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W143730 | 10-in. | 3/31/1927 | Fantasy on St. Louis blues | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
| Columbia | W143731 | 10-in. | 3/31/1927 | Fantasy on St. Louis blues | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
| Columbia | W144629 | 10-in. | 9/6/1927 | Soliloquy | Don Voorhees Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
| Columbia | W144630 | 10-in. | 9/6/1927 | Highways are happy ways (When they lead the way to home) | Don Voorhees Orchestra ; Vincent Van Tuyl | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W144634 | 10-in. | 9/7/1927 | Dawning | Billy Day ; Ideal Serenaders | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W144635 | 10-in. | 9/7/1927 | Say it with a red, red rose | Don Voorhees Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W144636 | 10-in. | 9/7/1927 | Rain | Don Voorhees Orchestra ; Vincent Van Tuyl | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W144637 | 10-in. | 9/7/1927 | When the morning glories wake up in the morning (Then I'll kiss your two lips good-night) | Don Voorhees Orchestra ; Vincent Van Tuyl | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W144641 | 10-in. | 9/10/1927 | Baby's blue | Don Voorhees Orchestra ; Frank Harris | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W144642 | 10-in. | 9/10/1927 | Clementine | Don Voorhees Orchestra ; Frank Harris | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W144646 | 10-in. | 9/8/1927 | Lolita | Don Voorhees Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W144647 | 10-in. | 9/8/1927 | Worryin' | Norman Clark ; Don Voorhees Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W144651 | 10-in. | 9/9/1927 | My blue heaven | Don Voorhees Orchestra ; Lewis James | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W144652 | 10-in. | 9/9/1927 | A shady tree | Ideal Serenaders ; Lewis James | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W145485 | 10-in. | 1/7/1928 | Can't help lovin' dat man | Vaughn De Leath ; Don Voorhees Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W145486 | 10-in. | 1/7/1928 | Ol' Man River | Don Voorhees Orchestra ; Wilfred Glenn | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Columbia | W145869 | 10-in. | 4/24/1928 | Give me some new birds | Don Voorhees Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
| Columbia | W145870 | 10-in. | 4/24/1928 | Don't you change | Don Voorhees Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | leader | |
| OKeh | W401192 | 10-in. | 10/4/1928 | American can | Don Voorhees Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
| Edison | 11249 | 10-in. | 10/15/1926 | Just one more kiss | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Harold Lambert | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Edison | 11250 | 10-in. | 10/15/1926 | I'd love to call you my sweetheart | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Harold Lambert | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Edison | 11301 | 10-in. | 11/15/1926 | Just a bird's eye view | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
| Edison | 11302 | 10-in. | 11/15/1926 | Because I love you | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Arthur Hart | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Edison | 11303 | 10-in. | 11/15/1926 | Somebody's eyes | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Arthur Hart | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader, songwriter | |
| Edison | 11320 | 10-in. | 11/19/1926 | Because I love you | Donald Voorhees | Piano solo | instrumentalist, piano | |
| Edison | 11321 | 10-in. | 11/19/1926 | For my sweetheart | Donald Voorhees | Piano solo | instrumentalist, piano | |
| Edison | 11342 | 10-in. | 11/29/1926 | Sunday | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Arthur Hart | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Edison | 11442 | 10-in. | 1/17/1927 | Who do you love? | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Harold Yates | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Edison | 11443 | 10-in. | 1/17/1927 | Muddy water (A Mississippi moan) | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Harold Yates | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Edison | 11444 | 10-in. | 1/17/1927 | Blue skies | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Cooper Lawley ; Harold Yates | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal duet | leader | |
| Edison | 11541 | 10-in. | 2/28/1927 | Never without you | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Harold Yates | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Edison | 11542 | 10-in. | 2/28/1927 | I still believe in you | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Harold Yates | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Edison | 11543 | 10-in. | 2/28/1927 | Pardon the glove | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
| Edison | 11640 | 10-in. | 4/11/1927 | Dancing the devil away | Vaughn De Leath ; Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | leader | |
| Edison | 11641 | 10-in. | 4/11/1927 | I'll always remember you | Vaughn De Leath ; Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | leader | |
| Edison | 11642 | 10-in. | 4/11/1927 | The same old moon | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; J. Donald Parker | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Edison | 11699 | 10-in. | 5/16/1927 | Room for two | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra ; Harold Yates | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Edison | 11700 | 10-in. | 5/16/1927 | Dear eyes that haunt me | Don Voorhees Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
| Edison | 11701 | 10-in. | 5/16/1927 | With someone like you | Don Voorhees and his Earl Carroll's Vanities Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
| Edison | 11780 | 10-in. | 7/6/1927 | Show me that kind of a girl | Don Voorhees Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader | |
| Edison | 11781 | 10-in. | 7/6/1927 | Oh! Doris! Where do you live? | Don Voorhees Orchestra ; Arthur Fields | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | leader | |
| Edison | 11782 | 10-in. | 7/6/1927 | Two little pretty birds | Don Voorhees Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | leader |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Voorhees, Donald," accessed November 17, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/106227.
Voorhees, Donald. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 17, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/106227.
"Voorhees, Donald." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 17 November 2024.
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Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Voorhees, Donald - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90642281
Wikidata: Donald Voorhees - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5295247
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/38135899
MusicBrainz: Donald Voorhees - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b8ef142f-22d4-4a0f-abcd-21e82ee5e44c
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