MARTYN GREEN - CONTRACT MULTI-SIGNED 09/28/1954 - HFSID 178194

MARTYN GREEN
He signs a 1954 royalty agreement with RCA covering a new recording of The Mikado.
Document signed: "Martyn Green", 1 page, 8½x11, and also signed "Martyn Green" and initialed "MG" on a 1½ page rider. Union City, New Jersey, 1954 September 28. For his vocal services during recording of The Mikado, Green is to receive from Radio Corporation of America royalties equal to 2% of the retail list price of every 2-sided record sold worldwide, and 1% for every one-sided recording sold. Martyn Green (1899-1975) joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1922, performing first in the chorus and soon as an understudy. From 1934 he was the Company's principal comic baritone, his fine diction lending itself especially well to the patter songs. He is featured on most of the D'Oyly Carte's early post-World War II recordings. Leaving the D'Oyly Carte company in 1951 and moving to America soon thereafter, he appeared in many stage roles on and off Broadway, and in films and TV. As this letter demonstrates, Green remained closely associated with the work of Gilbert & Sullivan: acting and recording, directing TV adaptations, writing a memoir and notes for a G&S songbook, and even doing a Campbell's Soup commercial to the music of "I am the very model of a modern Major Gen-er-al." Horizontal folds, not near signature. Staple and file holes at upper margin. Otherwise, fine condition.