# Leonore Vonderlieth

5 episodes.

Leonore Vonderlieth, known professionally as Vaughn De Leath was an early radio pioneer, radio performer, radio station manager and recording artist who also invented a new style of singing called "crooning" which was later adopted by singers such as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and many others. Elvis Presley recorded one of her 1927 hits, "Are You Lonesome Tonight" in 1960, making it a hit once again for a new generation of music lovers. She made her first radio broadcast in 1920 in the studio of radio pioneer, Lee de Forest and later became known as the "First Lady of Radio". There's an anecdotal story about how she inadvertently invented the crooning vocal style after fears that her natural singing voice might shatter the fragile vacuum tubes of her carbon microphone's amplifier. I don't know if this is true, but it's a funny story and at least plausible. She composed the song, "Oliver Twist" for the 1922 silent film of the same name, starring Jackie Coogan. She worked with some of the finest Jazz musicians of the time and was a skilled musician herself. In 1923, she became one of the first women to manage a radio station, WDT in New York City, over which she also performed and led a sixty-piece orchestra. In 1928, she appeared on an experimental television broadcast, and later became a special guest for the debut broadcast of The Voice of Firestone radio show. She was also one of the first American entertainers to broadcast to Europe via transatlantic…

## Sets

- Leonore Vonderlieth (Listeners' uploads): the Internet Archive records: “**FAIR USE NOTICE**” Source: https://archive.org/details/vaughn-de-leath

## Episodes, in broadcast order

1. [Nobody Knows What A Red-Head Mamma Can Do](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/leonore-vonderlieth/b711723d7ac0) (3:07): https://archive.org/download/vaughn-de-leath/01%20-%20Vaughn%20De%20Leath%20-%20Nobody%20Knows%20What%20A%20Red-Head%20Mamma%20Can%20Do.mp3
1. [Banana Oil](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/leonore-vonderlieth/5272aba62a6d) (3:03): https://archive.org/download/vaughn-de-leath/02%20-%20Vaughn%20De%20Leath%20-%20Banana%20Oil.mp3
1. [The Good Bad Girl](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/leonore-vonderlieth/850659f78b89) (3:06): https://archive.org/download/vaughn-de-leath/03%20-%20Vaughn%20De%20Leath%20-%20The%20Good%20Bad%20Girl.mp3
1. [That's a Good Girl](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/leonore-vonderlieth/d36a76a28a9a) (3:06): https://archive.org/download/vaughn-de-leath/04%20-%20Vaughn%20De%20Leath%20-%20That%27s%20a%20Good%20Girl.mp3
1. [Song of the Wanderer (Where Shall I Go?)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/leonore-vonderlieth/f275e5dde67f) (3:28): https://archive.org/download/vaughn-de-leath/05%20-%20Vaughn%20De%20Leath%20-%20Song%20of%20the%20Wanderer%20%28Where%20Shall%20I%20Go%29.mp3

Uploaded to the Internet Archive by the person named, outside its radio collections.

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