Whistle While You Work

"Whistle While You Work" Original 1929-1938 Recordings

As elegant as they were versatile, and now retrospectively perceived as Germany's first 'Boy-Group', the Comedian (Comedy) Harmonists were a class act. Musically trained and polished, they were the sublimation of earlier traditions of close harmony singing in minstrelsy and vaudeville graphed on recordings made during the early years of the 20th century by such groups as the Haydn, Peerless and Shannon Quartets. The last-named were destined, particularly after the introduction in 1925 of electrical recording, to become internationally renowned as the Revelers and, like their more famous successors the Harmonists and the Mills Brothers, they offered an interesting range of novel, non-instrumental vocal effects.