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Leo Sonkin 1902 - 1986

Leo Sonkin of Forest Hills, Queens County, NY was born on January 5, 1902, and died at age 84 years old in June 1986.

Leo Sonkin

Forest Hills, Queens County, NY 11375

January 5, 1902

June 1986

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June 1986

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In 1902, in the year that Leo Sonkin was born, the world famous Italian tenor, Enrico Caruso, made the first gramophone recording by a popular singer. Accompanied by only a piano, his voice recordings became a big seller and did much to popularize the new-fangled gramophone. He had to sing into a metal "horn" that relayed his voice to a metal disc. And the songs had to be under 4 and a half minutes!

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In 1921, he was 19 years old when hugely popular Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, silent film star, was arrested for rape and manslaughter after an actress died following a party at his house. He was acquitted after three trials and the jury wrote a formal letter apologizing for the charges, but his career never recovered. His films were at first banned - the ban was lifted after a year - and he was mostly ostracized by the community. He died at 46..

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