Carson Robison
| Carson Jay Robison | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Carson Jay Robison |
| Also known as | Charles Robison |
| Born |
August 4, 1890 Oswego, Kansas, USA |
| Origin | New York City |
| Died | March 24, 1957 (aged 66) Poughkeepsie, New York, USA |
| Genres | Country Music |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer-songwriter, actor |
| Instruments | Acoustic guitar, vocals, harmonica, whistling |
| Years active | 1924–1957 |
| Associated acts |
Gene Austin The Buckaroos Buddy Clark The Crowe Brothers Frank Crumit Vernon Dalhart Wendell Hall Andrew Jenkins Frank Luther The Pioneers Sacred Singers |
Carson Jay Robison (August 4, 1890 - March 24, 1957) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although his impact is generally forgotten today, he played a major role in promoting country music in its early years through numerous recordings and radio appearances. He was also known as Charles Robison and sometimes composed under the pseudonym Carlos B. McAfee.
Carson Jay Robison was born in Oswego, Kansas. The son of a champion fiddler, he became a professional musician in the American Midwest at the age of 15, primarily as a whistler working with Wendell Hall, "The Red-Headed Music Maker", on the early 1920s music hall circuit. He worked as a singer and whistler at radio station WDAF (Kansas City, Missouri).
In 1924, he moved to New York City and was signed to his first recording contract with the Victor Talking Machine Company. Also that year, Robison started a professional collaboration with Vernon Dalhart, one of the era's most notable singers. Through this relationship, Robison realized huge success, mainly as a songwriter but also as a musician, accompanying Dalhart on guitar, harmonica, whistling, and harmony vocals. In one of their first collaborations, Robison accompanied Dalhart on the landmark recording of "Wreck of the Old '97" b/w "The Prisoner's Song" (1924), widely regarded as country music's first million-seller. During this period, Robison also became a successful composer of "event" songs, which recounted current events or tragedies in a predictable fashion, usually concluding in a moral lesson. Some popular examples of his topical compositions include "The Wreck of the Shenandoah", "The Wreck of the Number Nine", and "The John T. Scopes Trial", about the famous Scopes Monkey Trial.
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