Joseph Walter Fulton

Joe Belmont was the stage name of Joseph Walter Fulton (July 22, 1876 – August 29, 1949) who was a whistling performer and baritone in the United States who came to be known as "The Human Bird". He was one of the most popular recording artists in the years leading up to 1900 and sang as a baritone and whistled for the Columbia Quartet along with Albert Campbell, Jim Reynard and Joe Majors. His top-selling records included "Beautiful Birds, Sing On", "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" (with Byron G. Harlan, Frank C. Stanley, and the Florodora Girls, Columbia 31604, 1901).

Biography Joseph Walter Fulton was born in Shamokin, Pennsylvania on July 22, 1876. By 1900 he was one of the most popular recording artists. Belmont also started a birds-only pet shop in Radio City named the Belmont Bird and Kennel Shop, assisted by his son Walter and daughter-in-law Virginia. Virginia Belmont did shows and recordings with trained singing and talking birds on her own and ran the store until the early 1980s.

Belmont's most popular recordings as a solo artist were "Listen to the Mockingbird" and his own composition, "Beautiful Birds, Sing On."

Belmont sang in addition to his whistling. He sang the baritone part in the first recordings of the "Columbia Quartette". The Blue Jay and the Thrush On an Afternoon in June The Songs of the Nations Whistle While You Walk The Whistling Coquette