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Lawrence Tibbett
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Lawrence Mervil Tibbett (November 16, 1896 – July 15, 1960) was a famous American opera singer and recording artist who also performed as a film actor and radio personality. A baritone, he sang leading roles with the New York Metropolitan Opera company more than 600 times from 1923 to 1950. He performed diverse musical theatre roles, ranging from Iago in Met productions of Otello to Captain Hook in Peter Pan in a touring show. Lawrence Tibbett was born Lawrence Mervil Tibbet, (with a single "t") on November 16, 1896 in Bakersfield, California. His father was a part-time deputy sheriff, killed in a shootout with desperado Jim McKinney in 1903. Tibbett grew up in Los Angeles, earning money by singing in church choirs and at funerals. He graduated from Manual Arts High School in 1915. A year later he met his future wife, Grace Mackay Smith, who rented a room in his mother's house. During World War I he served in the Merchant Marine, after which he found employment singing as prologue to silent movies at the Grauman "Million Dollar" Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Tibbett studied in New York City with Frank La Forge and in 1923 at the age of 26, he signed his first contract, for $60 per week, with the New York Metropolitan Opera, using the name "Tibbett" (a spelling he used occasionally in his youth). Over the ensuing years, with the Met, he built a hugely successful career. His roles included Valentin in Charles Gounod's Faust, Silvio, and later, Tonio, in Ruggero Leoncavallo
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Top Hits Of The 1930s
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The Song Is You
Prima Voce: From Broadway to Hollywood
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The Songs Of George Gershwin
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Tibbett, Lawrence: The White Dove (1926-1931)
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Opera Arias / Songs (Baritone): Tibbett, Lawrence - Bizet, G. / Leoncavallo, R. / Rossini, G. / Speaks, O. / Wolfe, J. (1928-1940)
Prima Voce: Tibbett in Opera
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Frank Sinatra & Friends
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Greatest Hits of the 1930s
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Top 45 Classics - The Very Best of Lawrence Tibbett
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Lebendige Vergangenheit - Lawrence Tibbett
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Voices Of Romance From The 30s