Peter S. Green was born in 1918 in Regina, Saskatchewan and moved to Seattle with his parents when he was three years old. He attended West Seattle High School and was employed by the Boeing Company shortly after his graduation in 1936. Peter Green married in 1951 and he and his wife Georgina had two sons, Mark and Rick. He retired from the Boeing Company in 1983 after 45 years of service. Throughout his life he sang at weddings, church services, reunions and cruise ship talent contests. His repertoire included English and Italian classical standards as well as religious and contemporary songs. He passed away in 2009 at the age of 91.
The collection consists of two compact disks and nine original 78 rpm phonograph records of songs performed by tenor Peter S. Green on the Gold Shield Coffee Hour on KIRO radio.
During the 1940s Peter Green performed on the Gold Shield Coffee Hour, a musical variety show broadcast Sunday nights on KIRO Radio in Seattle. KIRO Radio started in 1927 as a small 100-watt station. In 1941, KIRO became the first station in the Pacific Northwest to be licensed up to 50,000 watts of power. Shortly after that, the FCC froze all radio station construction and power increases and KIRO remained the most powerful radio voice north of San Francisco and west of Minneapolis during WWII. Dozens of entertainment programs such as the Gold Shield Coffee Hour were broadcast on KIRO as part of the Pacific Northwest war morale effort.
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Peter S. Green Sound Recordings, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle
Gift of Georgina Green, Peter Green's wife; received in 2012
The phonographs records were removed from an album and placed in archival folders in original order.
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Labeled: A Carl Fisher Recording, 119 W. 57th Street, New York
Labeled: Rex Music and Recording Studio, 2017 Second Avenue, Seattle
Handwritten on label: Peter Green, tenor, with piano
Labeled: KIRO, 66 Cobb Building, Seattle
Handwritten on label: Peter Green with Orchestra (Gold Shield Symphony)
Labeled: KIRO, 66 Cobb Building, Seattle. Peter Green - Tenor - with Orchestra
Handwritten on label: Peter Green with orchestra
Labeled: National Hollywood, Gold Shield Symphony
Handwritten on label: Peter Green and Orchestra
Labeled: National Hollywood.
Labeled: KIRO, 66 Cobb Building, Seattle. Peter Green - Tenor - with orchestra
Labeled: KIRO, 66 Cobb Building, Seattle. Peter Green - Tenor - with orchestra
CD includes duplicates of some of phonograph records, as well as La Donna e Mobile, Oh Lovely Lord, Love Me Again, Funiculi, Funicula and other pieces.
CD includes duplicates of some of phonograph records, as well as Did You Not Hear, My Lady, I Hold Your Hand in Mine, Flow Gently, Sweet Afton, and other pieces.