Frank Luther
American country music singer, dance band vocalist, playwright, songwriter & pianist, best known for his children's songs & stories.
Born August 4, 1899 on a farm near Lakin, Kansas, USA.
Died November 16, 1980 in New York City, New York, USA.
Married singer/violinist Zora Layman (1920-1980, his death).
Luther made a number of successful 78rpm album sets for Decca in the late 1930s and early 1940s, of Civil War songs from both the North and South, songs of early New York, songs of old California, Gay Nineties songs, Irish favorites, and rare Christmas carols.
Pioneers Of Country Music
Frank Luther (2) & Zora Layman
1998
Cattle Compact
CD, Album, Mono
Winnie The Pooh And Christopher Robin
Frank Luther (2)
1973
The Emperor's New Clothes (Also Hop O' My Thumb)
Frank Luther (2) And The Famous Theatre Company With The Hollywood Studio Orchestra
1963
United Artists Records
LP
Gilbert And Sullivan's The Mikado
Frank Luther (2) With The Broadway Players
1963
A Child's First Birthday Record
Frank Luther (2)
1963
Macaroni the Little Pony
Frank Luther (2)
1961
United Artists Records
LP, Album, Mono
Children's Sing-A-Long
Frank Luther (2)
1960
Vocalion (2)
LP, Album, Mono
Frank Luther Sings Lois Lenski Songs
Frank Luther (2), Lois Lenski, Clyde Robert Bulla, Tony Mottola
1960
Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
LP
Songs Of Safety
Frank Luther (2)
1960
Decca, Decca
12"
The Little Red Hen
Frank Luther (2)
1960
Songs Of Safety / Manners Can Be Fun
Frank Luther (2)
1960
Sunday School Songs For Children
Frank Luther (2)
1959
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs / Alice In Wonderland
Frank Luther (2)
1959
Babar Songs And Stories
Frank Luther (2)
1958
Christmas For Children
Frank Luther (2) With Zora Layman — James Ballister And Quartet*
1958
A Child's First Christmas
Frank Luther (2)
1956
Festival Records
7", EP
Party Songs
Frank Luther (2) And The Luther Quartet
1955
Decca
10", Album
Songs Of The North And South - In The War Between The States (1861-1865)
Frank Luther (2) And Zora Layman With The Century Quartet
1954
There Is A Tavern In The Town
Frank Luther (2)
1953
Decca
7", Promo
The Goonie-Bird Song / Willie The Whistling Giraffe
Frank Luther (2)
1953
Decca, Decca
7"
One To Ten (The Counting Record) / ABC (The Alphabet Record)
Frank Luther (2)
1953
I'll Ring You Up / Jig A Jig Jig
Frank Luther (2) With The Dancing Feet
1952
Decca
10", Promo, Pin
Raggedy Ann In The Magic Book
Frank Luther (2) With Jesse Crawford
1952
"Now We Are Six" Songs
Frank Luther (2)
1952
Sunday School Songs
Frank Luther (2)
1951
Decca
2x10", Album
Ting-A-Ling-A-Jingle
Frank Luther (2), Jimmy Carroll
1951
Decca, Decca
10"
32 Children's Songs
Frank Luther (2)
1950
Decca, Decca
3xShellac, 10", Album
Mother Goose Storytime Songs
Frank Luther (2)
1950
Decca, Decca
7"
Mother Goose Playtime Songs
Frank Luther (2)
1950
Decca, Decca
10"
Mother Goose Singtime Songs
Frank Luther (2)
1950
Decca, Decca
10"
The Sing Song Man
Frank Luther (2)
1950
Decca
2x10", Album
The Birthday Party Record
Frank Luther (2)
1950
(A Visit From St.Nicholas) 'Twas The Night Before Christmas
Frank Luther (2)
1950
Beyond The Sunset-Should You Go First / Beautiful Isle Of Somewhere-Beautiful Beckoning Hands
Frank Luther (2) With The Frank Luther Singers
1950
Laddle, Laddle, Laddle On A Lollypop / Whatta Ya Wanna Be (When You Grow Up?)
Frank Luther (2)
1950
Brumas (The Roly Poly Bear) / Pudgy The Whistling Piggy
Frank Luther (2)
1950
Sleep, Baby , Sleep
Frank Luther (2)
1950
Mother Goose Circustime Songs
Frank Luther (2)
1950
Mother Goose Schooltime Songs
Frank Luther (2)
1950
Get Along Little Dogies
Frank Luther (2)
1949
Decca
2x10", Album
Children's Corner Volume 2
Frank Luther (2)
1949
Decca
2x10", Album
Get Along Little Doggies / Home On The Range
Frank Luther (2)
1949
Decca
10", Comp
The 3 Billygoats Gruff
Frank Luther (2) With Milt Herth
1949
Nursery Rhymes
Frank Luther (2)
1948
Decca
2x10", Album
Thirty-Three Children's Songs
Frank Luther (2)
1948
Decca
2x10", Album
Winnie The Pooh And Christopher Robin Songs
Frank Luther (2)
1948
Gay Nineties
Frank Luther (2) With Century Quartet*
1948
Babar
Frank Luther (2)
1947
Decca, Decca
12"
The Shoemaker And The Elves
Frank Luther (2) With Milt Herth
1947
Decca, Decca
10"
Goldilocks And The Three Bears
Frank Luther (2) With Milt Herth
1947
Decca, Decca
10"
The Sleeping Beauty
Frank Luther (2)
1947
Manners Can Be Fun
Frank Luther (2)
1947
Fairy Tales
Frank Luther (2)
1946
Decca
2xShellac, 10", Album
Raggedy Ann's Sunny Songs
Frank Luther (2)
1946
Decca
3xShellac, 10"
Mother Goose Songs
Frank Luther (2)
1946
Peter And The Wolf, Op. 67
Sergei Prokofiev, The Decca Symphony Orchestra*, Alexander Smallens, Frank Luther (2)
1946
Children's Corner
Frank Luther (2)
1946
Nursery Rhymes
Frank Luther (2)
1946
Birmingham Jail / Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane
Carson Robison And Frank Luther (2)
1945
Joe Davis
Shellac, 10"
Mother Goose Songs
Frank Luther (2)
1945
You’re As Pretty As A Picture / Don't Forget About Me Little Darling
Frank Luther (2) And Carson Robison / Hal Monroe
1944
Continental (6)
Shellac, 10"
The Gay Nineties
Frank Luther (2) Assisted By Zora Layman And The Century Quartet
1942
Play Party Games
Frank Luther (2) With American Square Dance Orchestra*
1941
Decca
3xShellac, 10", Album
Stephen Foster Melodies
Frank Luther (2)
1940
Decca
5xShellac, 10", Album
More Winnie-The-Pooh And Christopher Robin Children's Stories & Songs
Frank Luther (2)
1940
Decca
3xShellac, 10", Album
Babar And His Children / Zephir's Holidays / Babar And Father Christmas
Frank Luther (2)
1940
Decca
3xShellac, 10", Album
Stephen Foster Melodies, Vol. 2
Frank Luther (2) , With Zora Layman, The Century Quartet
1940
Songs Of Old New York (1650-1906)
Frank Luther (2) & Zora Layman With The Century Quartet
1939
Decca
4xShellac, 10", Album
Songs Of The South In The War Between The States 1861-1865
Frank Luther (2) & Zora Layman With The Century Quartet
1939
Decca
4xShellac, 10", Album
Songs Of Safety
Frank Luther (2)
1939
Decca
3xShellac, 10", Album
Patriotic Songs For Children
Frank Luther (2) & Bing Crosby
1939
Decca
3xShellac, 10", Album, Comp
Songs Of The North In The War Between The States 1861-1865
Frank Luther (2) & Zora Layman With The Century Quartet
1939
Decca
4xShellac, 10", Album
Songs Of Old California
Frank Luther (2) & Zora Layman With The Century Quartet
1939
Decca
4xShellac, 10", Album
American Folk Songs
Frank Luther (2)
1939
Decca
5xShellac, 10", Album
Decca Presents An Album Of Irish Melodies And Ballads
Frank Luther (2) And The Lyn Murray Quartet
1939
Decca, Decca, Decca, Decca, Decca
5xShellac, 10", Album
March Of The Gnomes (Children's Marching Song) / The Gay Parade
Frank Luther (2) With The Century Quartet
1939
Decca
Shellac, 10"
Christmas In Song - Volume 1
Frank Luther (2), Zora Layman And The Century Quartet
1939
Decca
5xShellac, 10", Album
A Child's Garden Of Verses
Frank Luther (2)
1939
Decca, Decca, Decca, Decca
3xShellac, 10"
Aesop's Fables In Song
Frank Luther (2)
1939
Decca
Shellac, 10"
Christmas In Song—Volume 2
Frank Luther (2), Zora Layman And The Century Quartet
1939
The Complete Musical Score Of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
Frank Luther (2), Zora Layman, The Clubmen
1938
Decca
3xShellac, 10", Album
Colorado Sunset / Chimes Of Araby
Frank Luther (2), Zora Layman, Leonard Stokes (2)
1938
Decca
Shellac, 10"
Jingle Bells / Old King Cole / Old Mother Goose / There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe
Frank Luther (2) / Irving Kaufman
1938
Conqueror
Shellac, 10"
The Grass Is Just As Green / (Take Me Back To) The Wide Open Places
Frank Luther (2), Zora Layman, Leonard Stokes (2)
1938
Decca
Shellac, 10"
Snow White And The Seven Dwarves Story In Song
Frank Luther (2), The Clubmen
1938
Decca
Shellac, 10"
Will I Ever Find My True Love / Pray For Me Mother
Frank* And Buddy Ross (3)
1937
Decca
Shellac, 10"
More Tuneful Tales
Frank Luther (2)
1936
Decca
3xShellac, 10", Album
The Story Of Babar
Frank Luther (2)
1936
The Ladies Man (Or A Devil With The Women) / Who Stole The Lock On The Henhouse Door?
Frank Luther (2)
1935
Decca
Shellac, 10"
Nursery Rhymes
Frank Luther (2)
1935
When Your Hair Has Turned To Silver / Good Night Little Girl Of My Dreams
Frank Luther (2) And Zora Layman
1934
Decca
Shellac, 10"
Bible Stories For Children
Frank Luther (2)
1934
Decca
Shellac, 10"
They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree / When I Was A Boy From The Mountains (And You Were A Girl From The Hills)
Frank Luther (2) / Frank Luther Trio
1934
Decca
Shellac, 10"
Carolina Moon / Somebody Loves You
Frank Luther (2) And Zora Layman
1934
Decca
Shellac, 10"
A Little Girl Dressed In Blue / A Hill Billy Wedding In June
Frank Luther (2) / Frank Luther (2) And Zora Layman
1934
Decca
Shellac, 10"
The Letter Edged In Black / In The Baggage Coach Ahead
Frank Luther (2)
1934
Decca
Shellac, 10"
Peg Leg Jack / I'm Popeye The Sailor Man
Frank Luther (2)
1934
Decca
Shellac, 10"
Mickey Mouse And Minnie's In Town / Silly Symphony
Frank Luther (2)
1933
RCA
Shellac, 10", Pic
Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?
Frank Luther (2)
1933
RCA
Shellac, 7", Pic
You're The World's Sweetest Girl / Sweetest Of All My Dreams
Frank Luther (2) / Luther-Stokes Trio
1932
Victor
Shellac, 10"
Pretty Polly
Frank Luther
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Frank Luther
We'll Be the Same
Frank Luther
Isn't It Funny / Us Two / Sing Ho! For the Life of a Bear
Frank Luther
Of Thee I Sing
Frank Luther
The Little Billie Goat Gruff
Frank Luther
Three Billygoats Gruff
Frank Luther
Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
Frank Luther
The More It Snows / I Lay on My Chest / Lines Written by a Bear
Frank Luther
Buckingham Palace / Hoppity / Market Square / Cherry Stones
Frank Luther
That Big Rock Candy Mountain (Bwy 8121, 8369-3)
Frank Luther
It's Very, Very Funny / I Could Spend a Happy Morning / Sneezles
Frank Luther
The Glad Bells All Aay / The Sleigh Ride
Frank Luther
Yesterdays
Frank Luther
Wind on the Hill / The Three Foxes / In a Fashion
Frank Luther
Twas the Night Before Christmas
Frank Luther
Turkey in the Straw
Frank Luther
Songs of Safety Part One
Frank Luther
A Little Girl Dressed in Blue
Frank Luther
Manners Can Be Fun
Frank Luther