HOPE EMERSON
(October 29, 1897 - April 25, 1960)



Major Engagements:

Le Ruban Bleu, N.Y.C. (1938)
Brevoort Hotel Supper Club, N.Y.C. (December 1940)
Number One Fifth Avenue, N.Y.C. (late 1940s)



1940

78/General 1723 (Hope Emerson with piano [possibly John LaTouche]) (Oh Sultan!; Did I Do Wrong?)

78/General 1724 (Hope Emerson with piano [possibly John LaTouche]) (What Happened To Me?; Virtue May Lurk)

78/General 1725 (Hope Emerson with piano [possibly John LaTouche]) (Simeon Babbitt; Her Name Was Lil)

Note: All of the above were recorded in N.Y.C..

1948

Street Scene, 78/Columbia MM 683 [reissued as CD/CBS MK 44668]

Tracks:    Ain’t It Awful The Heat (Helen Arden, Hope Emerson, Ellen Repp, and Wilson Smith with orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel);
                I Got A Marble And A Star (Creighton Thompson and Hope Emerson with orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel);
                Gossip Trio: Get A Load Of That (Helen Arden, Hope Emerson, and Ellen Repp with orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel);
                When A Woman Has A Baby (Hope Emerson, Remo Lota, Polyna Stoska, and Helen Arden with orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel);
                Wrapped In A Ribbon And Tied In A Bow (Beverly Janis, Elen Lane, Polyna Stoska, Sydney Rainer, Helen Arden, Wilson Smith, Ellen Repp, David E. Thomas,
                         Hope Emerson, and Creighton Thompson with orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel);
                The Woman Who Lived Up There (Anne Jeffreys, Brian Sullivan, Polyna Stoska, and Ensemble [presumably including Hope Emerson]with orchestra conducted by
                         Maurice Abravanel);
                I Loved Her Too (Norman Cordon, Anne Jeffreys, and Ensemble [presumably including Hope Emerson] with orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel)

Note: Recorded in 1947 in N.Y.C.