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Ernest Pike

August 22, 2023

Ernest George Pike (1871 – 4 March 1936) was an English tenor of the early 20th century who made numerous recordings in the first decades of the 20th century. After studying at the Guildhall School of Music in London, he worked as a bank clerk and sang as a church tenor before making his first recording "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes" for the Gramophone & Typewriter Company in 1904. He became the house tenor for HMV and made several hundred records in a career that spanned over twenty years.

Ernest Pike standing beside a G&T Sheraton gramophone, c. 1907, photo from a record sleeve of one of the Zonophone grand opera series.
Ernest Pike "La Donna e mobile" from "Rigoletto" (1905–1908).

Pike has been called "England's most recorded tenor", and his "silver voice" became a favourite in thousands of homes – remaining so until well into the 1920s. For a time his popularity was as great as that of the singer Peter Dawson. His repertoire was varied and included grand opera, light opera, oratorio, and ballads and popular songs of the Edwardian era, the First World War and the 1920s. He toured the British Isles giving concerts and was a favourite of royalty. He recorded under a number of pseudonyms – most commonly Herbert Payne.

Early career

Ernest Pike was born in Pimlico, London, England in 1871[1][2] the son of Richard Pike, a builder.[3][4] As a young tenor he sang in several choirs.[5] In 1887 at the age of 16 and using the pseudonym Herbert Payne, he toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's "B" Company playing one of the ghosts of the ancestors in Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore.[6] He went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music in London[2] for two years before continuing his musical studies privately.[5]

After completing his studies in the early 1890s, Pike worked as a clerk for a bank in Victoria, London; he became a shorthand writing expert and taught his skill to other employees.[5] Sometime during the 1890s he was appointed principal tenor at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London – a post that he still held in 1903.[2][7] He also sang at The Spanish Church (St. James), Spanish Place, Marylebone, London.[2] The church singing was done in his free time while he worked at the bank during the day.[5] His profession was still that of a commercial clerk when he married May Stevens in 1900.[3] They had a daughter Maud who was born in 1901.[1]

He soon began to receive invitations to sing at the London Ballad Concerts which were held at the Queen's Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London.[2][5] He also started to receive many offers of provincial engagements.[5] With a now busy concert schedule and the start of his recording career in 1904,[8] he was able to resign his post at Holy Trinity Sloane Square (in c. 1904).[5][9] In January 1905 he performed for King Edward VII at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire for three nights in succession when the King was in residence for a visit to the Devonshire Hospital in Buxton.[2][10] The 1913 Zonophone record catalogue described him as "The late King Edward's favourite tenor".[11] During the Edwardian era he toured the country singing in many leading cities and towns.[2][10] In 1909 he sang in Handel's Acis and Galatea at a Henry Wood Promenade concert in London.[12] By the 1911 census the family was living in Balham, South London and his profession was given as that of a singer.[1]

Recording career

In April 1904 Pike made his first recording: "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes" (from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers) for the Gramophone & Typewriter Company (G&T); it was released as a gramophone record (disc) in August of that year.[8] From 1906 many of his recordings were released on the Gramophone Company's Zonophone label[13][14][15] but he also released on Columbia, Ariel and Duophone.[5] In addition, he recorded 2-minute Edison cylinders in 1907 starting with "When the Berry's on the Holly",[8] 4-minute Edison cylinders 1908–1910 starting with "Always",[8] Sterling cylinders c. 1907[16] and Pathé discs in 1908 starting with "I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby".[17] After 1922 he ceased to record for HMV and recorded only for Columbia's budget Regal label.[citation needed]

Between the early 1900s and the mid-1920s Pike recorded more than 2,400 matrixes (takes) for HMV.[14] Assuming an average of three takes per song, this would equate to approximately 400 double-sided 78rpm gramophone records for HMV alone. An estimate of the total count of all his recordings (discs and cylinders) has put the figure at well over 500.[5] He has been called "England's most recorded tenor"[5] with his records of popular ballads becoming favourites in thousands of homes.[18] For a time his popularity was as great as that of Peter Dawson.[8] By the First World War he had become the house tenor for HMV.[19]

Pike used many different pseudonyms the greatest number being for his Zonophone recordings.[5] These are listed as follows with associated record companies in brackets if used for companies other than HMV. Any variations in pseudonym are also shown in brackets: Herbert Payne (Zonophone, G&T and some Edisons), Harold Payne, David Boyd (shared with Harold Wilde), Arthur Brett, Eric Courtland (Columbia), Arthur Gray (or Arthur Grey), Alan Dale (or Allan Dale), Richard Pembroke, Jack Henty, Sam Hovey, Arthur Adams, Arthur Edwards (or Arthur Edwardes), Edgar Froome (Ariel), Charles Nelson, Billy Murray and J. Saunders.[5][8][14] He was the Murray of "Murray & Denton", "Murray & Fay" and "Strong & Murray" and Cobbett in "Cobbett & Walker" (with Stanley Kirkby).[5] He was Bernard Moss in some duets with Peter Dawson.[14]

Operatic recordings

Pike sang in the earliest and often incomplete recordings of Gilbert and Sullivan (G&S) and other light operas of the era. In December 1906 he shared the role of Nanki-Poo in the first recording of The Mikado. This was released on single-sided gramophone records by G&T then re-released on double-sided discs by HMV in 1912.[20] He shared the role of Sir Joseph Porter on the first recording of the G&S opera H.M.S. Pinafore which was recorded by the Russell Hunting company on eleven Edison cylinders in 1907. In 1999 these early cylinders were re-discovered after they had been thought lost.[20] He probably sang Marco in The Gondoliers (1907 for G&T) – credit being given to the "Sullivan Operatic Party" and not to individual artists for this recording.[20] He sang both Colonel Fairfax and Leonard Meryll in The Yeomen of the Guard (1907 for G&T) and Ralph Rackstraw in the 1908 (Gramophone Company) recording of H.M.S. Pinafore.[20]

 
Ernest Pike (standing, fourth from left, counting the conductor) at one of the recording sessions for The Pirates of Penzance in 1920

Between 1908 and 1910 Pike sang on a small series of grand opera recordings which were released on the Zonophone white label, for example he recorded "Miserere" from Il Trovatore in 1908 and "La Donna è Mobile" from Rigoletto in 1910, both by Verdi and both recorded with Eleanor Jones-Hudson as Alveena Yarrow.[15] In 1909 he recorded "Solenne in Quest'ora" (in English) from Verdi's The Force of Destiny with Peter Dawson.[15]

In 1917 after lengthy negotiations with Rupert D'Oyly Carte, HMV was granted permission to do a series of complete recordings of G&S operas.[21] To retain the authenticity of the stage performances, these recordings were to be directly overseen by Rupert D'Oyly Carte.[22] Pike was one of the chosen singers along with Peter Dawson, Derek Oldham, George Baker, Stanley Kirkby, Robert Radford, Edna Thornton, Violet Essex, Sarah Jones and Bessie Jones.[21] Pike shared the singing of both Nanki-Poo and Pish Tush in The Mikado (1917); sang Luiz, Francesco and parts of Marco in The Gondoliers (1919), and Leonard Meryll and the First Yeoman in The Yeomen of the Guard (1920).[20] He sang the Duke of Dunstable in Patience (1921).[20] In 1918 he sang Silas Simkins in HMV's complete recording of Merrie England by Edward German.[14]

In the acoustic recording era it was accepted practice for recordings to be made by "studio singers" (in this case provided by HMV) rather than by the singers who would have performed the same roles in stage productions.[23] By 1922 Carte was insisting that his company's own singers be allowed to perform in the recordings, a move that prevented Pike and several others from singing further solo parts.[23] In Iolanthe (1922), Pike was relegated to the chorus. After this he did not participate in any further recordings of G&S operas made by HMV.[20]

Popular recordings

Pike is probably best remembered for his prolific output of the popular songs of his day. He became well known for his recordings of First World War songs, for example the American song "There's a Long Long Trail" in 1916 and "Take me Back to Dear Old Blighty" (as Eric Courtland) in a duet with George Baker (as Walter Jeffries) in 1917; he also made one of the earliest recordings of the famous ballad "Roses of Picardy" in 1918 shortly after it had been written.[19] He collaborated with other well-known artists, for example with Peter Dawson in Dawson's recording of "The Lost Chord" made in 1907[14] and with Stanley Kirkby in "When You Wore a Tulip" in 1916 (as Cobbett and Walker)[14] and "She Sells Sea Shells on the Seashore" in 1908 (as Herbert Payne with Fred Cooper).[15] Occasionally he would form part of a backing group or chorus in the recording studio known as "The Minster Singers" along with some or all of the following: Stanley Kirkby, Eleanor Jones-Hudson, Peter Dawson and Thorpe Bates; sometimes there were additional singers in this group.[14][15] The Minster Singers also recorded songs in its own right, for example "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" in 1906.[14]

Below is a selection of some of Pike's solo songs which typify the popular repertoire that he recorded for HMV. The year of recording and any pseudonyms used are also given:

  • "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes", 1904[14]
  • "When the Sunset Turns the Ocean's Blue to Gold", 1906 (as Arthur Brett)[14]
  • "In My Aeroplane for Two", 1907 (as Herbert Payne)[15]
  • "Killarney", 1908 (as Pike). 1907 and 1912 (as Herbert Payne)[14]
  • "When You Know You're Not Forgotten (by the Girl You Can't Forget)", 1907 (as Herbert Payne)[15]
  • "Ayesha, My Sweet Egyptian", 1909 (as Herbert Payne)[15]
  • "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine", 1913 (as Herbert Payne)[14]
  • "The Sunshine of Your Smile", 1914 (as Herbert Payne)[14]
  • "When the War Is Over Mother Dear", 1915 (as Herbert Payne)[14]
  • "There's a Long Long Trail", 1915[14]
  • "Roses of Picardy", 1918[19]
  • "Hello New York", 1918[14]

Singing voice

Pike was a lyric tenor but had difficulty beginning with the top A and, although he could go higher, he tended to avoid the higher tenor notes.[5] In his memoirs the producer and recording engineer Fred Gaisberg remembered Pike as a "silver-voiced tenor".[18] The singer George Baker said of Pike: "He had a smooth tenor voice that was easy to record because of its even quality". However, Baker also thought Pike's style to be "unemotional".[5]

Death

He died of a cerebral haemorrhage on 4 March 1936, aged 64 in Streatham, South London.[3][24]

References and notes

  1. ^ a b c The British 1911 Census, folio 301, page 1, piece 2313
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Who's Who in Music, Ed. Sir Landon Ronald, Shaw Publishing Co. Ltd., 1935
  3. ^ a b c British General Register Office – Marriage certificate: 1900 Vol 1A page 698. Death certificate: 1936 Vol 1D page 638. Payment required.
  4. ^ Pike maintained that his father was a baker in the royal estates at Sandringham, but his marriage certificate shows that his father was a builder.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Graham Oakes, "Ernest Pike – England's Most Recorded Tenor", The Journal of the City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society Ltd, No. 40, Winter 2011, pp. 439–442
  6. ^ Rollins, Cyril; R. John Witts, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Gilbert and Sullivan Operas, London, Michael Joseph Ltd., 1962
  7. ^ The Musical Times, Vol. 44, 1 December 1903, p. 772 – Pike advertising his services as a tenor based at Holy Trinity Church
  8. ^ a b c d e f Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound in the United States, Ed. Marco, Garland, 1993, p. 533. ISBN 0-8240-4782-6
  9. ^ The Musical Times, 1 February 1905, p. 76 – Pike advertising his services as a tenor with no mention of Holy Trinity Church
  10. ^ a b The Guardian and Observer Digital Archive. Subscription required. Retrieved 30 August 2010
  11. ^ The 1913–14 Zonophone record catalogue, p. 42
  12. ^ BBC Proms archive Details of Pike's Promenade concert performance in 1909. Retrieved 13 October 2012
  13. ^ Pike recorded for four Zonophone labels: Green label single-sided, Green label "The Twin" double-sided, White label grand opera and Red label celebrity.
  14. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q The AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music. Retrieved 12 October 2012
  15. ^ a b c d e f g h Numerical Listing of Zonophone Records, City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society Ltd., 1999. ISBN 0-900883-61-8
  16. ^ The Talking Machine News, September 1907, p. 404 – Sterling cylinder advert
  17. ^ Girard and Barnes, Vertical-Cut Cylinders and Discs, British Institute of Recorded Sound, 1971, p. 117
  18. ^ a b F. W. Gaisberg, Music on Record, Robert Hale Ltd., 1946, p. 46
  19. ^ a b c Peter Martland, Since Records Began EMI The First 100 Years, Batsford Ltd., EMI Group Plc, 1997, p. 76. ISBN 0-7134-6207-8
  20. ^ a b c d e f g Marc Shepherd, Links to descriptions of G&S operas including cast lists. Gilbert and Sullivan Discography. Retrieved 17 October 2012
  21. ^ a b F. W. Gaisberg, Music on Record, Robert Hale Ltd., 1946, p. 170
  22. ^ Shepherd, Marc. "The First D'Oyly Carte Recordings", Gilbert and Sullivan Discography, 18 November 2001, retrieved 18 October 2012
  23. ^ a b Marc Shepherd, HMV house singers replaced with D'Oyly Carte singers. Gilbert and Sullivan Discography. Retrieved 17 October 2012
  24. ^ The Musical Times, Vol. 77, No. 1118 (April 1936), p. 368 – Obituary

External links

  • Website with details about historical G&S recordings
  • Website with details about who was who in the D'Oyly Carte

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Ernest George Pike 1871 4 March 1936 was an English tenor of the early 20th century who made numerous recordings in the first decades of the 20th century After studying at the Guildhall School of Music in London he worked as a bank clerk and sang as a church tenor before making his first recording Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes for the Gramophone amp Typewriter Company in 1904 He became the house tenor for HMV and made several hundred records in a career that spanned over twenty years Ernest Pike standing beside a G amp T Sheraton gramophone c 1907 photo from a record sleeve of one of the Zonophone grand opera series source source track Ernest Pike La Donna e mobile from Rigoletto 1905 1908 Pike has been called England s most recorded tenor and his silver voice became a favourite in thousands of homes remaining so until well into the 1920s For a time his popularity was as great as that of the singer Peter Dawson His repertoire was varied and included grand opera light opera oratorio and ballads and popular songs of the Edwardian era the First World War and the 1920s He toured the British Isles giving concerts and was a favourite of royalty He recorded under a number of pseudonyms most commonly Herbert Payne Contents 1 Early career 2 Recording career 2 1 Operatic recordings 2 2 Popular recordings 3 Singing voice 4 Death 5 References and notes 6 External linksEarly career EditErnest Pike was born in Pimlico London England in 1871 1 2 the son of Richard Pike a builder 3 4 As a young tenor he sang in several choirs 5 In 1887 at the age of 16 and using the pseudonym Herbert Payne he toured with the D Oyly Carte Opera Company s B Company playing one of the ghosts of the ancestors in Gilbert and Sullivan s Ruddigore 6 He went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music in London 2 for two years before continuing his musical studies privately 5 After completing his studies in the early 1890s Pike worked as a clerk for a bank in Victoria London he became a shorthand writing expert and taught his skill to other employees 5 Sometime during the 1890s he was appointed principal tenor at Holy Trinity Church Sloane Street London a post that he still held in 1903 2 7 He also sang at The Spanish Church St James Spanish Place Marylebone London 2 The church singing was done in his free time while he worked at the bank during the day 5 His profession was still that of a commercial clerk when he married May Stevens in 1900 3 They had a daughter Maud who was born in 1901 1 He soon began to receive invitations to sing at the London Ballad Concerts which were held at the Queen s Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London 2 5 He also started to receive many offers of provincial engagements 5 With a now busy concert schedule and the start of his recording career in 1904 8 he was able to resign his post at Holy Trinity Sloane Square in c 1904 5 9 In January 1905 he performed for King Edward VII at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire for three nights in succession when the King was in residence for a visit to the Devonshire Hospital in Buxton 2 10 The 1913 Zonophone record catalogue described him as The late King Edward s favourite tenor 11 During the Edwardian era he toured the country singing in many leading cities and towns 2 10 In 1909 he sang in Handel s Acis and Galatea at a Henry Wood Promenade concert in London 12 By the 1911 census the family was living in Balham South London and his profession was given as that of a singer 1 Recording career EditIn April 1904 Pike made his first recording Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes from Gilbert and Sullivan s The Gondoliers for the Gramophone amp Typewriter Company G amp T it was released as a gramophone record disc in August of that year 8 From 1906 many of his recordings were released on the Gramophone Company s Zonophone label 13 14 15 but he also released on Columbia Ariel and Duophone 5 In addition he recorded 2 minute Edison cylinders in 1907 starting with When the Berry s on the Holly 8 4 minute Edison cylinders 1908 1910 starting with Always 8 Sterling cylinders c 1907 16 and Pathe discs in 1908 starting with I ll Sing Thee Songs of Araby 17 After 1922 he ceased to record for HMV and recorded only for Columbia s budget Regal label citation needed Between the early 1900s and the mid 1920s Pike recorded more than 2 400 matrixes takes for HMV 14 Assuming an average of three takes per song this would equate to approximately 400 double sided 78rpm gramophone records for HMV alone An estimate of the total count of all his recordings discs and cylinders has put the figure at well over 500 5 He has been called England s most recorded tenor 5 with his records of popular ballads becoming favourites in thousands of homes 18 For a time his popularity was as great as that of Peter Dawson 8 By the First World War he had become the house tenor for HMV 19 Pike used many different pseudonyms the greatest number being for his Zonophone recordings 5 These are listed as follows with associated record companies in brackets if used for companies other than HMV Any variations in pseudonym are also shown in brackets Herbert Payne Zonophone G amp T and some Edisons Harold Payne David Boyd shared with Harold Wilde Arthur Brett Eric Courtland Columbia Arthur Gray or Arthur Grey Alan Dale or Allan Dale Richard Pembroke Jack Henty Sam Hovey Arthur Adams Arthur Edwards or Arthur Edwardes Edgar Froome Ariel Charles Nelson Billy Murray and J Saunders 5 8 14 He was the Murray of Murray amp Denton Murray amp Fay and Strong amp Murray and Cobbett in Cobbett amp Walker with Stanley Kirkby 5 He was Bernard Moss in some duets with Peter Dawson 14 Operatic recordings Edit Pike sang in the earliest and often incomplete recordings of Gilbert and Sullivan G amp S and other light operas of the era In December 1906 he shared the role of Nanki Poo in the first recording of The Mikado This was released on single sided gramophone records by G amp T then re released on double sided discs by HMV in 1912 20 He shared the role of Sir Joseph Porter on the first recording of the G amp S opera H M S Pinafore which was recorded by the Russell Hunting company on eleven Edison cylinders in 1907 In 1999 these early cylinders were re discovered after they had been thought lost 20 He probably sang Marco in The Gondoliers 1907 for G amp T credit being given to the Sullivan Operatic Party and not to individual artists for this recording 20 He sang both Colonel Fairfax and Leonard Meryll in The Yeomen of the Guard 1907 for G amp T and Ralph Rackstraw in the 1908 Gramophone Company recording of H M S Pinafore 20 Ernest Pike standing fourth from left counting the conductor at one of the recording sessions for The Pirates of Penzance in 1920Between 1908 and 1910 Pike sang on a small series of grand opera recordings which were released on the Zonophone white label for example he recorded Miserere from Il Trovatore in 1908 and La Donna e Mobile from Rigoletto in 1910 both by Verdi and both recorded with Eleanor Jones Hudson as Alveena Yarrow 15 In 1909 he recorded Solenne in Quest ora in English from Verdi s The Force of Destiny with Peter Dawson 15 In 1917 after lengthy negotiations with Rupert D Oyly Carte HMV was granted permission to do a series of complete recordings of G amp S operas 21 To retain the authenticity of the stage performances these recordings were to be directly overseen by Rupert D Oyly Carte 22 Pike was one of the chosen singers along with Peter Dawson Derek Oldham George Baker Stanley Kirkby Robert Radford Edna Thornton Violet Essex Sarah Jones and Bessie Jones 21 Pike shared the singing of both Nanki Poo and Pish Tush in The Mikado 1917 sang Luiz Francesco and parts of Marco in The Gondoliers 1919 and Leonard Meryll and the First Yeoman in The Yeomen of the Guard 1920 20 He sang the Duke of Dunstable in Patience 1921 20 In 1918 he sang Silas Simkins in HMV s complete recording of Merrie England by Edward German 14 In the acoustic recording era it was accepted practice for recordings to be made by studio singers in this case provided by HMV rather than by the singers who would have performed the same roles in stage productions 23 By 1922 Carte was insisting that his company s own singers be allowed to perform in the recordings a move that prevented Pike and several others from singing further solo parts 23 In Iolanthe 1922 Pike was relegated to the chorus After this he did not participate in any further recordings of G amp S operas made by HMV 20 Popular recordings Edit Pike is probably best remembered for his prolific output of the popular songs of his day He became well known for his recordings of First World War songs for example the American song There s a Long Long Trail in 1916 and Take me Back to Dear Old Blighty as Eric Courtland in a duet with George Baker as Walter Jeffries in 1917 he also made one of the earliest recordings of the famous ballad Roses of Picardy in 1918 shortly after it had been written 19 He collaborated with other well known artists for example with Peter Dawson in Dawson s recording of The Lost Chord made in 1907 14 and with Stanley Kirkby in When You Wore a Tulip in 1916 as Cobbett and Walker 14 and She Sells Sea Shells on the Seashore in 1908 as Herbert Payne with Fred Cooper 15 Occasionally he would form part of a backing group or chorus in the recording studio known as The Minster Singers along with some or all of the following Stanley Kirkby Eleanor Jones Hudson Peter Dawson and Thorpe Bates sometimes there were additional singers in this group 14 15 The Minster Singers also recorded songs in its own right for example In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree in 1906 14 Below is a selection of some of Pike s solo songs which typify the popular repertoire that he recorded for HMV The year of recording and any pseudonyms used are also given Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes 1904 14 When the Sunset Turns the Ocean s Blue to Gold 1906 as Arthur Brett 14 In My Aeroplane for Two 1907 as Herbert Payne 15 Killarney 1908 as Pike 1907 and 1912 as Herbert Payne 14 When You Know You re Not Forgotten by the Girl You Can t Forget 1907 as Herbert Payne 15 Ayesha My Sweet Egyptian 1909 as Herbert Payne 15 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine 1913 as Herbert Payne 14 The Sunshine of Your Smile 1914 as Herbert Payne 14 When the War Is Over Mother Dear 1915 as Herbert Payne 14 There s a Long Long Trail 1915 14 Roses of Picardy 1918 19 Hello New York 1918 14 Singing voice EditPike was a lyric tenor but had difficulty beginning with the top A and although he could go higher he tended to avoid the higher tenor notes 5 In his memoirs the producer and recording engineer Fred Gaisberg remembered Pike as a silver voiced tenor 18 The singer George Baker said of Pike He had a smooth tenor voice that was easy to record because of its even quality However Baker also thought Pike s style to be unemotional 5 Death EditHe died of a cerebral haemorrhage on 4 March 1936 aged 64 in Streatham South London 3 24 References and notes Edit a b c The British 1911 Census folio 301 page 1 piece 2313 a b c d e f g Who s Who in Music Ed Sir Landon Ronald Shaw Publishing Co Ltd 1935 a b c British General Register Office Marriage certificate 1900 Vol 1A page 698 Death certificate 1936 Vol 1D page 638 Payment required Pike maintained that his father was a baker in the royal estates at Sandringham but his marriage certificate shows that his father was a builder a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Graham Oakes Ernest Pike England s Most Recorded Tenor The Journal of the City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society Ltd No 40 Winter 2011 pp 439 442 Rollins Cyril R John Witts The D Oyly Carte Opera Company in Gilbert and Sullivan Operas London Michael Joseph Ltd 1962 The Musical Times Vol 44 1 December 1903 p 772 Pike advertising his services as a tenor based at Holy Trinity Church a b c d e f Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound in the United States Ed Marco Garland 1993 p 533 ISBN 0 8240 4782 6 The Musical Times 1 February 1905 p 76 Pike advertising his services as a tenor with no mention of Holy Trinity Church a b The Guardian and Observer Digital Archive Subscription required Retrieved 30 August 2010 The 1913 14 Zonophone record catalogue p 42 BBC Proms archive Details of Pike s Promenade concert performance in 1909 Retrieved 13 October 2012 Pike recorded for four Zonophone labels Green label single sided Green label The Twin double sided White label grand opera and Red label celebrity a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q The AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music Retrieved 12 October 2012 a b c d e f g h Numerical Listing of Zonophone Records City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society Ltd 1999 ISBN 0 900883 61 8 The Talking Machine News September 1907 p 404 Sterling cylinder advert Girard and Barnes Vertical Cut Cylinders and Discs British Institute of Recorded Sound 1971 p 117 a b F W Gaisberg Music on Record Robert Hale Ltd 1946 p 46 a b c Peter Martland Since Records Began EMI The First 100 Years Batsford Ltd EMI Group Plc 1997 p 76 ISBN 0 7134 6207 8 a b c d e f g Marc Shepherd Links to descriptions of G amp S operas including cast lists Gilbert and Sullivan Discography Retrieved 17 October 2012 a b F W Gaisberg Music on Record Robert Hale Ltd 1946 p 170 Shepherd Marc The First D Oyly Carte Recordings Gilbert and Sullivan Discography 18 November 2001 retrieved 18 October 2012 a b Marc Shepherd HMV house singers replaced with D Oyly Carte singers Gilbert and Sullivan Discography Retrieved 17 October 2012 The Musical Times Vol 77 No 1118 April 1936 p 368 ObituaryExternal links EditWebsite with details about historical G amp S recordings Website with details about who was who in the D Oyly Carte Listen to Ernest Pike recordings Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ernest Pike amp oldid 1168522212, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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