Polly and I Were Sweethearts"
A. D. Madeira
Victor 3302
1901
Polly and I were sweethearts,
As all the neighbours know.
Polly and I were sweethearts
Twenty years ago.
A. D. Madeira sings "Polly And I Were Sweethearts" on Victor 3302
May 1, 1901.
A. D. Madeira was born on November 15, 1859, in Covington, Kentucky.
The baritone's full name was Addison Dashiell Madeira, Jr.
In the December 1976 issue of Hobbies, Jim Walsh reports that the singer's father (a minister) was born in Pittsburgh and his mother was born in Baltimore.
His father had served as a private secretary for General Ulysses S. Grant.
In the father's parish, a young Harry Truman met his future wife, Bess.
As a solo artist, Madeira made 20 Edison cylinders, beginning in late 1899. His last cylinder featured an aria, sung in English, from Verdi's Il Trovatore.
Edison paired him with Byron G. Harlan for fourteen duets.
Madeira had Victor sessions on May 1 and May 2, 1901. Representative is "Polly and I Were Sweethearts" on Victor 3302.
Victor paired him with Harry Macdonough for eight duets.
Walsh reports that according to the March 1902 issue of Phonogram and other sources, Madeira gave up his singing career to manage the General Typewriter Company in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By 1903 he taught music and within a few years moved to Kansas City, where he resided for nearly three decades until his death.
He died on October 8, 1930.
He is buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.
"Polly and I Were Sweethearts" A. D. Madeira on Victor 3302 (1901) Addison Dashiell Madeira pioneer.
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