Aileen Stanley - Broken Hearted

Aileen Stanley (1897-1982) was a United States popular singer. Stanley was born as Maude Elsie Aileen Muggeridge in Chicago. In her childhood, with the urging of her widowed mother, she and her older brother Stanley sang and danced in vaudeville as Stanley and Aileen. After her brother left the act she started performing solo, forming her stage name by reversing the name of the old family billing. She made the first of her numerous recordings in 1920. Throughout the 1920s she would record prolifically. Her stage appearances billed her as "The Phonograph Girl" and "The Girl With The Personality". In the late 1920s Victor Records produced a popular series of records pairing Stanley with singer Billy Murray. About 1931 she moved to London, where she made more records for HMV from 1934 through 1937. In her later years she worked as a singing teacher and vocal coach. This great record was made in 1927.