Franklyn Baur

His grandfather on the maternal side held the same position for many years in Henry Ward Beecher's Brooklyn church.

[4] Today's audiences may know Baur best as a member of The Revelers, an extremely popular group of the 1920s (four singers and a pianist).

Members of the group had been recording as The Shannon Four when pianist Frank Black recruited Baur and wrote new, jazz-oriented arrangements.

[10][2][3] His record producer, Gus Haenschen, recalled: "He toured as a recitalist for another two years, maybe more, but as happened with other pop-music tenors before him, he sang too often — he was still on radio, too — and some of the arias he chose for his recitals were wrong for his voice.

He developed a nodule on one of his vocal cords, and unfortunately the operation to remove the node wasn’t successful and left him with an impaired voice.