Editing Van and Schenck

{{short description|American entertainers}}
[[Image:VanSchenck22.jpg|thumb|right|Van and Schenck.]]
[[File:Van and Schenck horsing around in 1918.jpg|thumb|Van and Schenck horsing around in 1918]]
'''Van and Schenck''' were popular American entertainers in the 1910s and 1920s: '''Gus Van''' (born August Von Glahn, August 12, 1886&nbsp;– March 12, 1968), [[baritone]], and '''Joe Schenck''' (pronounced "skenk"; born Joseph Thuma Schenck, (June 2, 1891–  June 28, 1930), [[tenor]]. They were [[vaudeville]] stars and made appearances in the [[Ziegfeld Follies]] of 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921. They made numerous [[gramophone record|phonograph records]] for the [[Emerson Records|Emerson]], [[Victor Talking Machine Company|Victor]], and [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] record companies.<ref>{{cite news |title=Gus Van, Stage and Vaudeville Headliner, Dead. Teamed With Joe Schenck in Hit Song and Comedy Act. Starred in 'Follies' |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B05EEDF1638E134BC4B52DFB5668383679EDE |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=March 13, 1968 |access-date=2014-12-10 }}</ref>

==History==
With Schenck on piano, the duo sang and performed [[comedy]] routines. Van was especially adept at dialect humor, and could imitate any number of regional and continental accents. One of the team's typical novelty hits was ''[[Pastafazoola]],'' in praise of Italian food and sung in the appropriate style. Van's hearty baritone and Schenck's high tenor harmonized well, and the team became known as "the pennant-winning battery of songland." They performed on [[radio]] shows and appeared in early talking motion pictures, including several musical shorts—in both [[Vitaphone]] and [[Movietone sound system|MGM Movietone]]—and one feature, the MGM film ''[[They Learned About Women]]'' (1930).

During World War I, they recorded humorous songs such as "I Don't Want to Get Well" which told the tale of a wounded soldier who did not want to recover, as he was comfortable in hospital and in love with a nurse.

After Schenck's death in 1930 of heart disease, Van continued to perform as a solo artist on stage, screen, and radio. He appeared in many New York-produced [[Soundies]] in 1941.  Schenck was buried in The [[Cemetery of the Evergreens]] in Brooklyn.

Van and Schenck gained a modern-day resurgence after their 1920 recording of Irving Berlin's "After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It" was sampled in the soundtrack of the [[Indie game|indie]] video game ''[[Pizza Tower]]''.

==Selected discography==
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*"It's Been a Long, Long Time Since I've Been Home" (1916)
*"Hawaiian Sunshine" (1916)
*"[[For Me and My Gal (song)|For Me and My Gal]]" (1917)
*"Yaddie Kaddie Kiddie Kaddie Koo" (1917)
*"Huckleberry Finn" (1917)
*"That's How You Can Tell They're Irish" (1917)
*"My Little China Doll" (1917)
*"Mother, May I Go in to Swim?" (1917)
*"Dance and Grow Thin" (1917)
*"There's Something Nice about the South" (1917)
*"Far Away in Honolulu" (1917)
*"Mulberry Rose" (1917)
*"The Ragtime Volunteers are Off to War" (1917)
*"[[I Don't Want to Get Well]]" (1917)<ref>Paas, John Roger (2014). America Sings of War: American Sheet Music from World War I. Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 138, {{ISBN|9783447102780}}.</ref>
*"Southern Gals" (1917)
*"I Miss the Old Folks Now" (1917)
*"[[In the Land O' Yamo Yamo]]" (1917)
*"Where Do They Get 'Em and How Do They Get 'Em?" (1918)
*"My Mind's Made Up to Marry Carolina" (1918)
*"Ragtime Moses Old-Time Bomboshay" (1918)
*"I Always Think I'm Up in Heaven" (1918)
*"Tackin 'Em Down" (1918)
*"[[They Were All Out of Step But Jim]]" (1918)
*"Why Do They Call Them Babies?" (1918)
*"You'll Always Find A Lot of Sunshine in My Old Kentucky Home" (1918)
*"You'll Find Old Dixieland in France" (1918)
*"Oh, How She Can Sing" (1919)
*"Mandy" (1919)
*"Open Up The Golden Gates To Dixieland" (1919)
*"Sweet Kisses" (1919)
*"They're All Sweeties" (1919)
*"After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It" (1920)
*"All The Boys Love Mary" (1920)
*"In Napoli" (1920)
*"You Tell 'em" (1920)
*"[[Ain't We Got Fun]]" (1921)
*"Ain't You Coming Out Malinda?" (1921)
*"All She'd Say Was Umh Hum" (1921)
*"O'Reilly (I'm Ashamed of You)" (1921)
*"She Walks in Her Husband's Sleep" (1921)
*"Sweet Love" (1921)
*"What's A Gonna Be Next?" (1921)
*"Who's Been Around" (1921)
*"[[Carolina in the Morning|Carolina in The Morning]]" (1923)
*"Steamboat Sal" (1923)
*"You Tell Her-I Stutter" (1923)
*"Away Down East in Maine" (1923)
*"Take 'em To The Door Blues" (1925)
*"Everything is Hotsy-Totsy Now" (April 15, 1925)
*"That Red Head Gal" (1923)
*"Magnolia" (1927)
*"[[Pastafazoola]]" (1927)
*"[[Stay Out of the South]]" (1929)

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://vintage-recordings.com/realaudio/vocalshow6a07.ram Van & Schenck on vintage-recordings.com] – [[RealAudio]] of two of their early recordings
*{{IMDb name|0770850|Joe Schenck}}
*{{IMDb name|0888408|Gus Van}}
*{{IBDB name|77073|Joe Schenck}}
*{{IBDB name|63060|Gus Van}}
*{{IBDB name|63055|Van & Schenck (as team)}}
*[https://archive.org/details/VanSchenck Collected Works of Van & Schenck]
*[https://archive.org/details/VanAndSchenck Collected Works of Van & Schenck (2nd edition)] 
*[http://www.archeophone.com/product_info.php?products_id=116 Van and Schenck at Archeophone Records]

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