In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, for your listening pleasure I have transferred three recordings by John McCormack. All are Victor recordings.
**You may have to copy and paste the URLs into your browsers for them to work.** First is Ireland, My Sireland from Victor Herbert's operetta Eileen, with the composer conducting. Matrix no. B 19447-1, record no. 64665. Recorded in New York 5 Apr 1917. http://www.ampexguy.com/kiri/b19447-1.19170405.64665-mccormack.ireland.my.sireland.mp3 Second is The Rose of Tralee (C. Mordaunt Spencer/Charles W. Glover), with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting. Matrix no. BVE 58586-2, record no. 1452. Recorded at the Victor 44th St. Laboratory, New York, 19 Feb 1930. http://www.ampexguy.com/kiri/bve58586-2.19300219.1452-mccormack.the.rose.of.tralee.mp3 Third, and, IMHO, best, is (what else?) Ireland, Mother Ireland (P.J. O'Reilly/Raymond Loughborough), also with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting. Matrix no. BVE 56192-4, record no. 1452. Recorded at the Victor 44th St. Laboratory, New York, 21 Feb 1930. http://www.ampexguy.com/kiri/bve56192-4.19300221.1452-mccormack.ireland.mother.ireland.mp3 The last two songs were featured in the Fox Movietone picture Song o' My Heart, but these recordings are not taken from the soundtrack of that movie. If any of you out there are wondering what your teachers mean when they say to sing on your horn or to take a vocal approach to the music, this is what they want you to do. Howard Sanner [email protected] "Pessimists are surprised as often as optimists, but always pleasantly"--The Giant Rat of Sumatra, by Richard L. Boyer, p. 61. _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
