"The Owl In The Old Oak Tree" <br /><br />"That Girl" Quartet <br /><br />Edison Blue Amberol 2113 <br /><br />Lyrics by Stanley Murphy <br /><br />Music by Benjamin Hapgood Burt <br /><br />The singers are Harriette Keyes, Allie Thomas, Precis Thompson, and Helen Summers. <br /><br />This was one of the first female vocal quartets to make recordings <br /><br />The four singers were most active in studios from 1911 to 1913. <br /><br />An earlier female quartet, The Vassar Girls' Quartette, cut titles for the American Record Company as well as for Edison's National Phonograph Company in 1906. <br /><br />Titles recorded by the "That Girl" Quartet include "Honey Love" (Victor 16648, 1911), "Haying Time" (Victor 16906, 1911), and "My Little Persian Rose" (Victor 17270, 1913). <br /><br />Two Edison recordings were issued. Blue Amberol 2113, issued in December 1913, features Burt's "The Owl in the Oak Tree." <br /><br />A decade later, in 1923, Blue Amberol 4730 featuring "I'm Yours With Love and Kisses" was issued. <br /><br />The quartet was not popular, and the four singers are forgotten today.
