{{short description|American opera singer}} {{Infobox person | name = Olive Kline | image = Olive Kline in 1917 at her home (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Kline in 1917 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|7|7}} | birth_place = Amsterdam, New York | death_date = {{Death date and age|1976|7|9|1887|7|7}} | death_place =Pelham, New York | death_cause = | other_names =Olive Kline Hulihan<br>Alice Green | known_for = | education = | occupation = | spouse ={{marriage|Dr. John Walter Hulihan (1884-1957)|1919|August 10, 1957|end=his death}}<!--23 June 1884--> | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = }}
'''Olive Kline''' (sometimes given as '''Olive Kline Hulihan''' or the pseudonym '''Alice Green''';<ref>{{cite book|title=Music, Libraries, and the Academy: Essays in Honor of Lenore Coral|editor=James P. Cassaro|page=207|publisher=A-R Editions|year=2007}}</ref> July 7, 1887 – July 29, 1976) was an American soprano who is chiefly remembered for her recordings for Victor Records from 1912 to 1935.<ref name=bio/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/jukebox/artists/detail/id/121/ |title=Olive Kline |access-date=2015-01-21 |publisher=Library of Congress }}</ref> She recorded a wide range of music from operas and Broadways musicals to sacred music, popular music, and songs from the classical concert repertoire.<ref>{{cite book|title=Webster Booth & Anne Ziegler: Excerpts from "Gramophone" & Discography|page=56|author=Jean Collen|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=9781291559194|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xD7sBQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Olive+Kline%22&pg=PA56}}</ref>
==Biography== Kline was born on July 7, 1887, in Amsterdam, New York, to Martha D. and Oliver S. Kline. Her family moved to Schenectady, New York, around 1897, when her father went to work at General Electric.
She attended Saint Agnes Girls' School in Albany, New York. Her first vocal teachers were Herbert Wilbur Green whose surname she borrowed for her occasional recording pseudonym Alice Green. She later studied singing with Herbert Witherspoon.<ref name=bio/> [[File:78 record of Beautiful Ohio ballad-macdonald-mary-earl-olive-kline-marguerite-dunlap gbia0000598a itemimage.jpg|thumb|left|78 record of the Beautiful Ohio ballad sung by Kline and Marguerite Dunlap<ref name=victorohio>''Discography of American Historical Recordings'', s.v. "Victor matrix B-22474. Beautiful Ohio / Marguerite Dunlap; Olive Kline," accessed October 18, 2021, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/700007612/B-22474-Beautiful_Ohio .</ref>]] [[File:"The Japanese Sandman" (1920), by Olive Kline and Josef Pasternack.oga|thumb|Kline performing "The Japanese Sandman" in 1920, with Josef Pasternack conducting.]] Kline began her career as a paid soloist with several churches in New York City, including the Madison Avenue Reformed Church (now Central Presbyterian Church), Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, and the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. She recorded for Victor Records starting in 1912.<ref name=bio/> In 1914 she made her professional concert debut in Detroit in a program which also featured baritone Titta Ruffo.
She married Dr. John Walter Hulihan in 1919. Her last recording for Victor Records was in 1935.<ref name=bio/>
She died on July 29, 1976, in Pelham, New York.<ref name=bio>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895-1925 |title=Olive Kline |isbn=9781136592294 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q4mXh7krTxkC&dq=Olive+Kline+new+york+died&pg=PA220 |last1=Hoffmann |first1=Frank |last2=Cooper |first2=B. Lee |last3=Gracyk |first3=Tim |date=12 November 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Olive Kline Dies |newspaper=New York Times |date=July 30, 1976 }}</ref> She is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Rutland, Vermont.
==Recordings==
* "Bring Back My Soldier Boy to Me" (January 1919)
==External links== *[https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=OliveKline Olive Kline] at Flickr Commons * [https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/110037 Olive Kline recordings] at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.
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