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Although variously active as a politician and a circus manager, he earned his living during the early 1890s mainly as an auctioneer, pursuing such gigs as the sale of the ethnological villages at the close of the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (which, alas, didn’t turn out very well for him). As a sideline, he put his ready wit and vocal powers to work on behalf of the local Columbia Phonograph Com-pany, creating a popular line of comic auctioneering records with such titles as “Sale of New York Dime Museum” and “Sale of Red-Haired Girl.” Like his contemporary George Graham, Beckenbaugh thrived at the intersection of phonographic comedy and the verbal art of the marketplace, probing the talking machine’s limits as a medium of humor in the process. His career as a recording artist ended shortly before the turn of the century, and he died in 1903 while employed as a policeman in Washington, D. C., but the auction-record genre which he’d invented lived on in the repertoire of Len Spencer, who even took over and adapted some of Beckenbaugh’s own routines.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Video Editor"]},"value":{"en":["Nathan Georgitis"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam Oscar Beckenbaugh was Baltimore\u0026rsquo;s first professional recording artist and a pioneer of phonographic spoken-word comedy. Although variously active as a politician and a circus manager, he earned his living during the early 1890s mainly as an auctioneer, pursuing such gigs as the sale of the ethnological villages at the close of the World\u0026rsquo;s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (which, alas, didn\u0026rsquo;t turn out very well for him). As a sideline, he put his ready wit and vocal powers to work on behalf of the local Columbia Phonograph Com-pany, creating a popular line of comic auctioneering records with such titles as \u0026ldquo;Sale of New York Dime Museum\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;Sale of Red-Haired Girl.\u0026rdquo; Like his contemporary George Graham, Beckenbaugh thrived at the intersection of phonographic comedy and the verbal art of the marketplace, probing the talking machine\u0026rsquo;s limits as a medium of humor in the process. His career as a recording artist ended shortly before the turn of the century, and he died in 1903 while employed as a policeman in Washington, D. 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