Courtland & Jeffries

Courtland & Jeffries was a pseudonym for Ernest Pike as Courtland and George Baker as Jeffries, who collaborated with each other.
Ernest George Pike (1871 – 4 March 1936) was an English tenor of the early 20th century. After studying at the Guildhall School of Music in London, he worked as a bank clerk and sang as a church tenor before making his first recording "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes" for the Gramophone & Typewriter Company in 1904. He became the house tenor for HMV and made several hundred records in a career that spanned over twenty years.
George Baker (10 February 1885 – 8 January 1976) was an English singer. He is remembered for singing on thousands of gramophone records in a career that spanned 53 years, beginning in 1909. He is especially associated with the comic baritone roles in recordings of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas.
==Links to Peel==
Peel played their track, 'Goodbye-ee Sung', for the Peelenium 1918. No other tracks from the group seemed to have been played by Peel according to available tracklistings on this site, although George Baker's, 'If Those Lips Could Only Speak' was chosen for the Peelenium 1905. However, George Baker's singing career actually started in 1909.
==Shows Played==
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*24 June 1999: Goodbye-ee Sung (Peelenium 1918)
;George Baker
*26 May 1999: If Those Lips Could Only Speak (Peelenium 1905)
==External Links==
*Wikipedia (Ernest Pike)
*Wikipedia (George Baker)
*Discogs
Category:Artists