They aren't named in the title credits - only The Mound City Blue Blowers and Whitey and Ed Ford get mentioned. Others have pinpointed the specialty dancer as Wilbur Hall, which leaves the girls (character names "Faith", "Hope", and "Charity") as the only unidentified act in this vintage Vitaphone.
Your FAQmeister has been to considerable trouble to figure out who they might be. Trudging through various internet discussion and review sites has uncovered a number of different guesses, including suggestions that they could be the (sweetly-toned) Brox Sisters, or maybe even The Pickens Sisters (who at least had the pedigree of being "southern" vocalists).
However, they are neither of these (rather better known) groups - they are in fact The Randall Sisters. The skeptical can confirm this by screening Slightly Static (1935), a Hal Roach comedy in the Thelma Tod - Patsy Kelly series. This country music-themed short features the sisters and credits them by name on the title card (along with the Sons of the Pioneers). They are they clearly the same gals, and they are helpfully even singing the same song - Carson Robison's Left My Gal In The Mountains.
Unfortunately, I can find little else to tell about the Randalls. Their main venues were stage, musical reviews, and especially radio, with only a few film appearances. They sang a tightly disciplined close harmony, varied with beautifully controlled tempo changes. They also sang with a twangy Ozarkian drone that was far from mild, but their accent and "old-timey" style were likely major factors in endearing them to the country music audiences of an earlier era.
Your FAQmeister has been to considerable trouble to figure out who they might be. Trudging through various internet discussion and review sites has uncovered a number of different guesses, including suggestions that they could be the (sweetly-toned) Brox Sisters, or maybe even The Pickens Sisters (who at least had the pedigree of being "southern" vocalists).
However, they are neither of these (rather better known) groups - they are in fact The Randall Sisters. The skeptical can confirm this by screening Slightly Static (1935), a Hal Roach comedy in the Thelma Tod - Patsy Kelly series. This country music-themed short features the sisters and credits them by name on the title card (along with the Sons of the Pioneers). They are they clearly the same gals, and they are helpfully even singing the same song - Carson Robison's Left My Gal In The Mountains.
Unfortunately, I can find little else to tell about the Randalls. Their main venues were stage, musical reviews, and especially radio, with only a few film appearances. They sang a tightly disciplined close harmony, varied with beautifully controlled tempo changes. They also sang with a twangy Ozarkian drone that was far from mild, but their accent and "old-timey" style were likely major factors in endearing them to the country music audiences of an earlier era.
Actually, they are the same ladies. Starting as the The Aaron Sisters (their actual surname), by the mid-1930s they were being billed as The Randall Sisters. In fact, Nine O'Clock Folks (1931) is early enough (1931) that the group may have been using the older name during this timeframe, despite being unbilled by Vitaphone. But they are better represented in film and radio credits as the Randall Sisters.
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