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"Till The Clouds Roll By"

Anna Wheaton, soprano

James Harrod, tenor

Columbia A2261

1917

Jerome Kern song

I'm so sad to think that I had to
Drive you from your home so coolly

I'd be gaining nothing by remaining
What would Missus Grundy say?
Her conventions, kindly recollect them!
We must please respect them duly

My intrusion needs explaining;
I felt my courage waning
Please, I beg don't mention it!
I should not mind a bit
But it has started raining

Oh, the rain comes a pitter, patter
And I'd like to be safe in bed
Skies are weeping, while the world is sleeping

Trouble heaping on our head
It is vain to remain and chatter
And to wait for a clearer sky
Helter skelter, I must fly for shelter
Till the clouds roll by

It is vain to remain and chatter
And to wait for a clearer sky
Helter skelter, I must fly for shelter
Till the clouds roll by

Anna Wheaton was born in 1896.

She was a musical comedy and revue actress from Savannah, Georgia.

Her heyday was the World War I period.

Columbia catalogs state, "At ten years of age she played with Margaret Anglin, then with Maud [sic] Adams in 'Peter Pan.' In the humorous field, Miss Wheaton has appeared with Eddie Foy, Sam Bernard, De Wolf Hopper and Al Jolson. She added to her fame at the Hippodrome in London."

While in London in 1915 she made her first recording during a Columbia session.

She enjoyed success in The Passing Show of 1912 and won greater acclaim in Jerome Kern's Oh Boy!, which opened on February 20, 1917. Page 119 of the November 1917 issue of Talking Machine World reports, "Anna Wheaton, the clever prima donna of 'Oh Boy,' which recently passed its 300th performance at the Princess Theatre, New York City, has been 'doing her bit' for Uncle Sam's soldiers and sailors by giving her time and talent at many benefit performances and at the various camps where the men are stationed."

In the U.S. the soprano recorded exclusively for the Columbia Graphophone Company, beginning on June 17, 1916, with "I Didn't Know That Lovin' Was So Good" and "Suzanne," issued on A2042. With tenor James Harrod (a tenor who was most popular after adopting, in 1918, the professional name Colin O'More) she cut "Till the Clouds Roll By" (A2261) from Oh Boy! three weeks after the show opened. She had introduced the song on stage with Tom Powers. In 1946 the song title served as title for a motion picture biography of Kern.

Other titles recorded by Wheaton include "How Can Any Girlie Be A Good Little Girl And Love A Naughty Little Boy" (A2334) and "I'd Love To Be A Monkey In The Zoo" (A2384). "I Don't Want To Be Loved By A Lot Of Little Boys" (A2384), cut on September 4, 1917, was her last recording.

Her records did not sell well, and Columbia's 1921 catalog, printed in late 1920, lists only one Wheaton title--"M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I" (A2224), a comic song that Frances White had popularized in the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic. This was dropped from the next year's catalog. Wheaton worked in vaudeville in the 1920s.

She died in Pasadena, California, on December 25, 1961 (yes, on Christmas).

Anna Wheaton was married to Harry Carroll--an American songwriter, pianist, and composer. He was born in 1892. Carroll worked as an arranger in Tin Pan Alley. He entertained at the Garden Café and accompanied various vaudeville shows.

He wrote the music for many songs, including the hit "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine." Another hit was "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" (based on a section of Fantaisie-Impromptu by Frédéric Chopin).

Harry Carroll and Anna Wheaton had one child.

Harry Carroll died on December 26, 1962, in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania.