The Wilton Sisters
Last updated: 08.06.25
p_wiltonsis.jpg All that can presently (July 2023) be gleaned about The Wilton Sisters, Mae and Rosie, from sheet music covers and by Internet searching is that they were presumably American vaudeville performers who have been featured on 5 works published between 1924 and 1927.
Quoting from the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 24 February 1918, p.22a/b which described their appearance at the Palace Theatre, Fort Wayne in February 1918:
The Wilton Sisters, a couple of winning little lassies, one a comedienne of genuine talent and the other a perfect foil for her younger sister, will entertain the folks with some diversified bits of everything. The girls play the violin and piano, dance distractingly and sing delightfully, while they are unusually good to look at and pleasing in their personalities.
Their portrait on the left is taken from I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover (1927) music by Harry Woods, words by Mort Dixon and published by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York & Detroit, USA.
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     Title Attribution Instruments Source Remarks
           
pdf15.gif Follow the Swallow (1924) R. Henderson (music)
B. Rose (words)
Mort Dixon (words)
Wilton Sisters (perf.)
Piano, Voice Univ. of Maine wvicon.gif
The peformer is featured on 6 sheet music/recording covers. It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located.
     Title Composer Attribution Items
         
perf15.jpg For My Sweetheart (1926) Walter Donaldson Gus Kahn (words)
Wilton Sisters (perf.)
perf15.jpg Dreamer of Dreams (1924) Ted Fiorito Gus Kahn (words)
Wilton Sisters (perf.)
perf15.jpg Follow the Swallow (1924) Ray Henderson Billy Rose (words)
Mort Dixon (words)
Wilton Sisters (perf.)
perf15.jpg Bye Bye Blackbird (1926) Ray Henderson Mort Dixon (words)
Wilton Sisters (perf.)
perf15.jpg When Shall We Meet Again? (1921) Richard A. Whiting Raymond B. Egan (words)
Wilton Sisters (perf.)
perf15.jpg I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover (1927) Harry Woods Mort Dixon (words)
Wilton Sisters (perf.)