Sister Teams In Early Recorded Popular Music

Sister Teams In Early Recorded Popular Music A duo-piano sister team, Jeanne and Irene Douste, recorded one side for Berliner in 1899. Recorded vocal duet performances by sisters apparently began in about 1917, as Fanny and Kitty Watson sang for Okeh and Columbia, continuing until 1920. The Farber Sisters worked for Columbia and Pathé, and the Heart Sisters for Columbia; the Brox Sisters for Victor and Emerson, the Dennis and the MacDowell Sisters for Edison—these among others in the 1920s…