1. Sally Emery Hamlin was an American child actor, pianist, and recording artist.
13 Facts About Sally Hamlin
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Sally Hamlin was the daughter of Dr Cyrus E Hamlin and Hattie Bennion; the great-granddaughter of former US Vice President Hannibal Hamlin.
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Sally Hamlin is a shadowy figure today, and would probably be completely forgotten were it not for a series of 78rpm spoken word recordings she made for children in the 1910s and 1920s.
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Sally Hamlin recorded piano rolls for Duo-Art and a piano solo "The Butterfly", for Victor, which was never issued.
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Sally Hamlin was fifteen years old when she signed a one-year contract with Victor on April 12,1917 and made the trip from her home at 7 Woodruff Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York to Victor's recording studios in Camden, New Jersey.
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Sally Hamlin delivered James Whitcomb Riley's dialect poems "The Raggedy Man" and "Our Hired Girl" with natural girlish charm and they were instant successes.
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On June 25,1925 Sally Hamlin married James Tinker Denton, a widower, in Manhattan.
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Sally Hamlin became a step mother to Arthur Shaw Denton, James Thomas Denton and Florence Ann Denton.
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On November 1,1926, Sally Hamlin signed another contract with Victor, this one for a two-year period.
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None of Sally Hamlin's work has ever been officially reissued commercially on LP or compact disc.
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Later in life, Sally Hamlin married Karl M Chworowsky, a minister of the Unitarian Church.
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Sally Hamlin outlived him by 23 years, passing away at the age of 84 in Bar Harbor, Maine.
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Sally Hamlin is buried in the Hamlin family plot at Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor, Maine.