American Indian Song sung by the ever popular Sterling Trio


Harry McClaskey / Sterling Trio – Mother's Hands / Hiawatha's Melody Of Love


Label: Pathé – 22356
Format: 
Pathé Disc, 25cm, 80 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1920

Style: Vocal
A Harry McClaskey– Mother's Hands
Written-By – Clarke*, Ager*
B Sterling Trio– Hiawatha's Melody Of Love
Written-By – Meyer*
Record Company – Pathé Frères Phonograph Co.

February 27, 1920


Orig Paper Issue Pathe vertical sapphire Oversized record 10 3/8" 78 rpm recording.

Condition: EXCELLENT close to PRISTINE faint scuffs, tiny 1mm blister on HIAWATHA, plays very quiet  
light ticks

A GREAT COPY

HIAWATHA'S MELODY OF LOVE
(Words by Alfred Bryan, Artie Mehlinger / Music by Geo. W. Meyer, 1920)


Where the summer skies tenderly Kiss the pines that rise
slenderly By a forest stream Indian lovers came to dream
'Neath the moon aglow In the long ago They sang of love
sweet and low

Hiawatha roamed tearfully Gazed up on the spot fearfully On a
moss bound throne Hiawatha that pined alone Willow boughs bent
low From them seemed to flow Music to banish his woe

And the song they sang was Hiawatha's melody Just a golden memory
Of the days that used to be As they sat entranced beneath the weeping
tree Every leaf up above seemed to tremble with love And the
evening breeze sang Hiawatha's melody Sang it sweet and tenderly
Like a lover's rosary Now the song birds in Spring still remember
and sing Hiawatha's melody of love.

The vocal trio known as the Sterling Trio usually consisted of Henry Burr, Albert Campbell, and John H. Meyer.

The group performed regularly as part of the Eight Victor Artists concert troupe and made many recordings from 1916 to 1925.  

The three singers were members of the Peerless Quartet, and it is possible that the three made their first Sterling Trio records because the fourth member of the Peerless (at that time it was baritone Arthur Collins) was unavailable at times.  

The three voices blended beautifully, and for a decade Sterling Trio records sold well.


Harry McClaskey
Real Name: Harry Haley McClaskey
Profile: 
(1882 - 1941) American vocalist (tenor). Born Harry Haley McClaskey and used Henry Burr as one of his many pseudonyms, (in addition to Irving Gillette, Henry Gillette, Alfred Alexander, Robert Rice (5), Carl Ely, Harry Barr, Frank Knapp (5), Al King, and Shamus McClaskey). He was one of the first singers to make popular acoustic recordings and one of the most prolific recording artists of all time, with more than 12,000 recordings by his own estimate. He performed as a soloist and in duets, trios and quartets. His most famous collaboration was with Peerless Quartette (see Henry Burr)