Aileen Stanley
| Aileen Stanley | |
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1921
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Maude Elsie Aileen Muggeridge |
| Born |
March 21, 1893 Chicago, Illinois |
| Died | March 24, 1982 (aged 89) Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Associated acts | Billy Murray |
Aileen Stanley, born Maude Elsie Aileen Muggeridge (March 21, 1893 - March 24, 1982), was one of the most popular American singers of the early 1920s.
Aileen Stanley was born Maude Elsie Aileen Muggeridge on March 21, 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, Aileen was the youngest of four children of English parents Robert S. and Maria (née Capewell) Muggeridge who had immigrated from England in 1887. Aileen's sister Elsie Sherrif Muggeridge, died of typhoid in August 1892, passing it on to their father who died of the disease seven months before Aileen's birth. Her widowed mother resided in Chicago along with her surviving siblings, brothers Stanley and Robert Jr.
From childhood, she sang and danced in vaudeville with her older brother Stanley as Stanley and Aileen, with the encouragement of their widowed mother. After her brother left the act, Aileen started performing solo, forming her stage name by reversing the name of the old family billing.
Stanley performed in vaudeville and cabarets. In 1920 she was a hit in New York City in the revue show Silks And Satins and made the first of her numerous recordings the same year. The majority of her records in the '20s were for the Victor Talking Machine Company, but she also recorded with other labels with recording studios in the New York City area, including Edison, Pathe, Okeh, Brunswick, Vocalion, Gennett and others. On some of her early recordings she was accompanied by Rosario Bourdon's Orchestra. Many of her records sold well at the time. According to Joel Whitman, her most successful early recordings included "My Mammy" (1921), "Sweet Indiana Home" (1922), both written by Walter Donaldson; she also recorded other Walter Donaldson songs including "My Little Bimbo Down on a Bamboo Isle" (1920), "Dixie Highway" (1922), "Carolina in the Morning" (1922), "Back Where The Daffodils Grow" (1924), and "Don't be angry with me" (1926).
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