David "Bruce" Spizer (born July 2, 1955)^[2] is a tax attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana, who is also recognized as an expert on The Beatles.^[3][4] He has published eight books, and is frequently quoted as an authority on the history of the band and its recordings.

Biography[link]

Spizer was born and raised in New Orleans. He attended Isidore Newman School and then received B.A., M.B.A., and J.D. degrees from Tulane University,^[5] where he was a member of honorary societies Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif.^[2] While pursuing his legal career, he also managed The Cold, a popular New Wave band in New Orleans.^[6]

In 1997, Spizer earned a large legal fee from the settlement of a class action lawsuit, and decided to use some of the money to replace his childhood collection of Beatles LPs (which had been damaged by cockroaches) with a new set of first edition albums. Drawn into the world of Beatles collectors, he ended up writing and self-publishing The Beatles Records on Vee-Jay, about the relationship between EMI, the Beatles' U.K. record label, and Vee-Jay Records, the U.S. label that released the band's first records in the U.S.^[6] As of 2011, Spizer has written and published eight books about The Beatles.^[3][5][6] A New York Times reviewer described his books as containing "a wealth of detail about the Beatles' American recordings and their first visit to the United States, touching on everything from contracts and lawsuits to promotional materials, all richly illustrated."^[3] A New York Daily News article called his The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records "a Beatle collector's fantasy by a fanatic Beatles collector and historian."^[7]

The books about the Capitol releases were issued into 2 separate volumes: Part One, Beatlemania & The Singles and Part Two, The Albums, both issued in 2000. These were followed by The Beatles On Apple Records (2003), which told about the record releases on the group's own Apple label. The following book was The Beatles Are Coming!, released in January 2004 which was issued to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the group's arrival in America. Spizer's next book was the 2005 release, The Beatles Solo on Apple Records, which gave a complete documentation about the solo recordings of John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney that were released between 1968 to 1975. His sixth book in the series was The Beatles Swan Song: "She Loves You" & Other Records, a 2007 publication that told about the American-released Beatles records that were issued on the Swan, United Artists, Decca, MGM, Atco and Polydor labels. It also features information about the Beatles albums and singles released by Capitol in the 1970s and 1980s. In 2011, Spizer released Beatles For Sale On Parlophone, which documented Beatles discs released in the U.K. from 1962 through 1970, including the Parlophone EPs, which, according to Spizer, "up until now haven't been accurately documented in any book."^[8]

Spizer has served as a consultant to EMI and Apple Records for their CD re-releases of the American configurations of the Beatles catalog.^[3] He wrote the text for the companion booklet for the 2006 box set The Capitol Albums, Volume 2,^[9] and for the "catalography" that accompanies the 2009 "Box of Vision" release.^[10] He was also chosen to write 2,592 questions for a special Beatles edition of the Trivial Pursuit board game.^[6]

Spizer has appeared on television programs such as CBS's The Early Show,^[11] Fox News, and Good Morning America,^[6] and on the National Public Radio news program All Things Considered.^[12][13][14] He has been cited as a Beatles authority in print publications such as Rolling Stone,^[15] The Guardian,^[16] the New York Times,^[17] and Time.^[18]

Books[link]

• The Beatles Records on Vee-Jay (1998), ISBN 0-9662649-0-8
• The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records – Part One: The Singles (2000), ISBN 0-9662649-1-6
• The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records – Part Two: The Albums (2000), ISBN 0-9662649-2-4
• The Beatles on Apple Records (2003), ISBN 0-9662649-4-0
• The Beatles Are Coming! (2003), ISBN 0-9662649-9-1
• The Beatles Solo on Apple Records (2005), ISBN 0-9662649-5-9
• The Beatles Swan Song: "She Loves You" & Other Records (2007), ISBN 0-9662649-7-5
• Beatles For Sale on Parlophone Records (2011), ISBN 0-9832957-0-0

References[link]

External links[link]

• The Beatles in America (Spizer's official website).
• Bruce Spizer is New Orleans' Beatles Expert (video interview), Times-Picayune, August 10, 2009.

Frank Daniels
Born	Frank Albert Daniels (1856-08-15)August 15, 1856 Dayton, Ohio United States
Died	January 12, 1935(1935-01-12) (aged 78) West Palm Beach, Florida United States
Alma mater	New England Conservatory of Music
Occupation	Film actor
Years active	1915-1921
Spouse	Elizabeth S.

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Frank Albert Daniels (August 15, 1856 - January 12, 1935) was a comedian, an actor on stage and in early black-and-white films, and a singer.^[1]

Frank Daniels was born on August 15, 1856 in Dayton, Ohio to Balinda and Henry Daniels. He grew up in Boston, where he attended business school before studying singing at the New England Conservatory of Music.^[2] His first appearance was made when he was twenty years of age, at the old Gaiety Theatre in Boston, as the Judge in Trial by Jury. He made his professional stage debut as the Sheriff in The Chimes of Normandy in 1879, then served a second apprenticeship with several light opera companies, including the McCaull Comic Opera Company. Daniels first won major recognition in New York as Old Sport, the boxing fan drugstore clerk, in A Rag Baby (1884).

Other successes included the transformed father Packingham Giltedge in Little Puck (1888) (which was based on F. Anstey's novel Vice Versa) the loyal lighthouse man Shrimps in Princess Bonnie (1895), and the title role in Victor Herbert's The Wizard of the Nile (1895). His success in the latter musical was so pronounced that Herbert immediately wrote two more vehicles especially for him: The Idol's Eye (1897) and The Ameer (1899). Miss Simplicity (1902), The Office Boy (1903), and Sergeant Bruce (1905) all depended on his antics for their popularity. Among his later credits were the tailor‐made vehicle The Tattooed Man (1907) by Herbert, The Belle of Brittany (1909), and a touring company of The Pink Lady (1911). He retired after performing in Joe Weber and Lew Fields's last double bill, Roly Poly and Without the Law (1912).

He was a major star for the pioneering Vitagraph Company, for whom he developed popular characters such as Captain Jiggs, Kernel Nutt, and Mr. Jack. He appeared in three films with Harold Lloyd in 1919; Count the Votes, Pay Your Dues and His Only Father. His last film was Among Those Present, in 1921.

He died on January 12, 1935, in West Palm Beach, at the age of 78. He was survived by three children.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Frank Daniels at the Internet Movie Database
• Frank Daniels at the IBDb.com database
• Frank Daniels portrait gallery NY Public Library, Billy Rose Collection

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