Dan W. Quinn

b. c.1859, San Francisco, California, USA, d. 7 November 1938, New York City, New York, USA. As a child Quinn sang in the church choir and when living in New Jersey as a young man he was encouraged to sing for cylinder recording companies in New York. This was in 1892 and he was soon recording for many of the emerging labels. His voice was clear and he sang mostly tenor but could move towards baritone. His repertoire was wide, from comic songs, like ‘The Mick Who Threw The Brick', to hymns, such as ‘I Need Thee Every Hour' and ‘Throw Out The Life Line', and including along the...