Franklyn Baur is born in New York City, USA. He will find success as a tenor vocalist, making hundreds of recordings for companies, including the three major labels, Victor, Columbia and Brunswick. His first recording, If the Rest of the World Don't Want You, will be for Victor in 1923. Baur will record for Victor as a featured soloist, as a member of the Shannon Quartet (known as The Revelers after 1925); as one of the vocalists for Nat Shilkret And The Victor Orchestra; with Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra; and on occasion, as the vocalist for
Paul Whiteman's Orchestra.