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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Born2it, post: 11072926, member: 59977&quot;]I searched on Newspapers.com and got 61,734 matches on Clyde Barrie between 1930-1945.&nbsp; Most of them were radio schedules. Here are a couple I found searching under his real name, and a few under his stage name.&nbsp; I think a google search might have underestimated his importance in his time.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]536026[/ATTACH] </p><p>- Baltimore Afro-American • Sat, Dec 08, 1945 • Page 22 • (Baltimore, Maryland)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]536028[/ATTACH] </p><p>The New York Age • Sat, Dec 15, 1945 • Page Page 1 • (New York, New York)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]536029[/ATTACH] </p><p>The New York Age • Sat, Jan 04, 1941 • Page Page 4 • (New York, New York)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Clyde Barrie Sings At Republican Convention</b></p><p><br /></p><p>PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Delegates to the Republican National Convention, who have long known of Clyde Barrie as one of radio&#039;s greatest personalities, have met him at last and are much surprised. Barrie turned out to be none other than Cecil Burrows, a colored baritone soloist with the Columbia Broadcasting System.</p><p><br /></p><p>The singer was presented at the opening session of the convention here on Monday in the role of narrator-soloist for a CBS program.</p><p><br /></p><p>He sang the Earl Robinson masterpiece, &quot;Ballad for Americans.&quot; For his background he had the Lyn Murray chorus, a white group, and an orchestra under the direction of Phil Cohan.</p><ul> <li>New Journal and Guide • Sat, Jun 29, 1940 • Page 17 • (Norfolk, Virginia)</li> </ul><p>[ATTACH=full]536027[/ATTACH] </p><p>Saturday, May 16, 1931</p><p><br /></p><p>REALM OF MUSIC</p><p>By LUCIEN H. WHITE</p><p><br /></p><p>Cecil Burrows Sings</p><p>With Splendid Effect</p><p><br /></p><p>A fair-sized audience heard good singing by Cecil Burrows, baritone, and some mediocre piano playing by Gareth Anderson, on Thursday evening, May 7, at Roerich Hall, 103rd at Riverside Drive.</p><p><br /></p><p>[Note: search for The Master Apartments, 310 Riverside Dr, New York, NY 10025. The concert hall is in that building.&nbsp; As is also a very small studio apartment where my Mom used to live]</p><p><br /></p><p>Mr. Burrows, a serious young singer, displayed a voice of great possibilities, possessing attractive qualities. It has a natural timbre</p><p>that lends an intriguing element, and he showed considerable skill in the handling of it. In fact, had it not been for the excellence of his tonal offerings the singing night have been detracted from by the staid and stiff manner which characterized his stage presence.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was an appearance of inflexible stiffness in his bearing which might have been due to a highly strung nervous temperament keyed up to a high tension.</p><p><br /></p><p>The voice has richness, sonority, clarity, and there is a meticulous attention to dictum, enunciation and accent…</p><p><br /></p><p>Mr. Burrows is the new baritone soloist in the choir of St. James Presbyterian Church, of which Dr.</p><p>Melville Chariton is director…</p><ul> <li>The New York Age • Sat, May 16, 1931 • Page 7 • (New York, New York)</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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