A hard-to-find recording by the formidable Manuel Romain whose lung power was well suited for wax cylinder recordings!

To hear Let Me Crown You Queen of May with Orange Blossoms  — For help playing these sounds, click here.

9925   Let Me Crown You Queen of May with Orange Blossoms Manuel Romain A picturesque love ballad that vividly recalls Record 9728, "When It's Moonlight, Mary Darling, 'Neath the Old Grape Arbor Shade."   The music is by the same composer and serves equally well to bring out all the latent sweetness of Romain's fine tenor voice.   To hear this Record is to wish to own it.   Orchestra accompaniment; music, J. Fred Helf; words, Bartley Costello; publishers, Helf & Hager Co., New York. — July 1908 Edison Phonograph Monthly [announcing the September records]

Interested hearing other two-minute wax cylinder recordings by Romain?

Key	Title	Category	Performed by	Circa
09/2012	Down in Sunshine Valley	March song	Manuel Romain	1911
02/2003	What Might Have Been	Sentimental song	Manuel Romain	1909

                                       

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