{"id":1837,"date":"2015-07-01T23:44:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T04:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2015-07-02T00:04:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T05:04:58","slug":"layton-johnston-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=1837","title":{"rendered":"Layton & Johnston – 1929"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“If I Had You”
\nLayton And Johnstone; vocal and piano
\n1929 (Columbia 1768 D mx A8293)
\nIf I Had You<\/a><\/p>\n

“When The World Is At Rest”
\nLayton And Johnstone; vocal and piano
\n1929 (Columbia 1768 D mx A8366)
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As with a number of other black American entertainers in the 1920s\u00a0 the piano duo of Turner Layton and Clarence Johnstone<\/a> found it easier to achieve career success overseas than at home.\u00a0 They performed throughout Europe but were especially popular in England where their fans included the Prince of Wales and members of British nobility.\u00a0 Between 1928 and 1935 each had earned around \u00a364,000 – and amount that would be worth over $5 million today.<\/p>\n

In 1934 it came out in divorce court that Clarence Johnstone had an affair with Raymonde Sandler, a white woman who was the wife of the well-known salon orchestra leader Albert Sandler.\u00a0\u00a0 The resulting scandal led to Layton and Johnstone going their separate ways.\u00a0 Layton continued to have a successful career in British show business until his retirement in the mid-1950s.\u00a0 Johnstone eventually married Raymonde Sandler.\u00a0 After being declared bankrupt, he returned to America where his attempts to resume his career were unsuccessful.\u00a0 He eventually found work as a janitor.<\/p>\n

According to the Columbia Records advertisement reproduced above, this particular record was the duo’s first to be issued in the United States.\u00a0 The ad is from the June 1, 1929 edition of the Afro-American<\/em><\/a> a newspaper aimed at a black readership that was founded in 1892 and remains in publication<\/a>. Black record buyers were a lucrative and important niche market for the American record industry in the 1920s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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