1889 President Benjamin Harrison Voice Recording - Remastered and Enhanced Audio
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2021
- Pictures were enhanced using AI optimization software. For the audio, I remastered it using noise gate, compression, loudness normalization, EQ and a Limiter. The original was extremely degraded, but I eliminated as much of the noise as possible without degrading further the actual voice data. I also enhanced the ambience of the audio to regain as much of the natural overtones as possible.
This is the oldest known recording in existence of any U.S. President in history. It was recorded on an Edison wax cylinder in 1889.
President Benjamin Harrison was a relative of mine, so nice to be able to hear his voice. I never thought that would be possible
Amazing he was a relative of yours, a great president he was!
@@Lifeinthe1800s Good war officer in the field, too.
That’s cool. What was he like?
My only connection to President Harrison was my son, who bought his house in Bremerton WA from a guy who bought it in 1946 and lived there until he died in 2014. When my son bought the house he was given the ORIGINAL original title history, traced all the way back to the original patent, which was indeed signed by President Harrison in 1891 and platted immediately thereafter.
@@briane173 no way! That's awesome! I hope your son is a man who appreciates history.
Just moved to Indianapolis and went to visit President Harrison's home. About 80% of stuff in that home is original. Amazing place.
These historic pieces are real treasures and must never be lost or forgotten!!
Absolutely insane that we're able to hear people from so long ago. My great grandfather was born in 1899, and this was 10 years prior.
Nah. Not Absolutely insane. Not “Absolutely insane.” /
@@jordanjohnson9866 ????
My heart and actions unclouded
I love these! It really makes history come alive.
Thank you for the nice words and yes, that is definitely the goal, to make history come alive!
Dojyaaaaan
This is very cool, to hear this recording from over 130 years ago.
I'm amazed to hear someone from 1889, decade of the wild west. His voice sounds so much more common than i would have expected. My high school friend contacted me after 40 years apart and we were amazed at how our voices did not sound anything like the voice we remembered. The distinctive qualities of his voice in my memory were completely gone to the point I had to question whether I was being deceived by someone. His personality characteristics were unfortunately unchanged.
Unfortunately?
@@DugrozReports Yes, he was a slight a-hole then and now.
@@w.harrison7277 Gotcha.
One of the decades of the classic "Wild West" era. If there was a recording of a gold-rush miner from 1849, it would definitely be a decade of the "Wild West" too,
He grew up in backwoods Ohio and had minimal schooling until his mid-teens
"My heart and actions are utterly pure…! Everything I do is for justice!"
-23rd President Of The United States Of America
Very cool audio. I find it very interesting listening to people that far back in time. Especially Benjamin Harrison’s voice from 1889!
I love the way you cleaned up his voice! It made it so much easier to understand him better! Thanks for your work on these old clips! I love them. We can't forget our history! Thanks to you. We have a glimpse into the past!
This recording was made by Bettini's phonograph company in 1899-1900. It is indeed the earliest recording existant of a president.
Hayes was first though, but the voice recorder got lost.
@@Jamesright449 Yes Hayes and also Garfield before he ran for the presidency
@@jfs78Proof of Garfield?
@@vapordreams983 In the report of Edison at the Capital it reports him recording a few people. One of them was Garfield. This was in 1878. Of course none of these recordings exist today as they were not permanent recordings. Just indentations on tin foil.
Thanks for posting this improved version ... it's so fascinating to hear or see the first of anything that in today's world we now take for granted and deal with every single day of our lives. And if recording had been available just 25 years earlier we could today be listening to the actual voice of Abraham Lincoln.
Astounding! The words of a man dead for more than a century…but his words live on 😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍😊 🇺🇸
When the phonograph was First invented
The fact you could hear someone’s voice when they had died turned it from amazing to almost supernatural for some
Awesome channel, just discovered it. Keep up the good work. Much appreciated!
Thanks, will do!
Thankyou for posting this. Amazing
Pretty A-freaking-mazing to be recorded and still legible in 2021!
Dojyaaan
Dati Dizu Dan Dato Chipu
Thank you for your hard work preserving American history.
That was awesome! Thanks for sharing! 👍🏻
Outstanding teaching moment
So rich to hear these voices from the past.
Over 130 years and still his voice still
Lives in technology 😳🤯
Yes I meet benjamain Harrison before he died
@@Therdorethat means You'd Be at Youngest 123 Years Old. Cap
This audio quality is exceptional
Love these history stuff nice job
This is dope, I love this stuff.
Fantastic, thank you.
Benjamin Harrison was the first POTUS that used electricity in the WH and he was the grandson of William Henry Harrison who was the 9th POTUS for a month when he died from pneumonia and he was the US Army Calvary General who was an Indian fighter.
Interesting facts!
So they WERE related! That has to be a first, prior to the Roosevelts. Cool!
@@waynejones205 there was John Adams, second President, and his son, John Quincy Adams, the 6th President.
"I died in 30 days!"
@@deanchapman1824 And George H.W Bush The Fourtyone President, Had A Son Of George W Bush The 43th President Of USA
Amazing how a few were able to not only invent recordings. Film video. List goes on and on. Today people with knowledge are mocked.
That was weird I thought funny valentine was the president in 1890
Fabulous.
I didn't know we had recordings of presidents that were that old. Thank you for your hard work and for sharing this with us. When he was speaking of "our two countries" do we know what other country he was talking about? Mexico is the obvious choice since he said living side by side but I wondered if that was definitely correct. He referred to the Pan American Congress so there are a lot of other possibilities. 1/8/22
You're right -- as Canada would have still been (at least in the technical sense) still a part of the UK at that time.
I assumed that the two countries that he was referring to were the Union and the Confederacy.
@@GoLongAmerica I understand your reasoning, but no U.S. President would ever give the Confederacy that much standing. Lincoln never did, even though the South had seceded.
@@speechrighter Excellent points. The first Pan-Am Conference was attended by the USA and 17 Latin American countries, so one would assume that he was referring to one of those countries.
What an incredible piece of history.
The way he says "Prosperity", sounds so funny and weird! 😁
Wow! Its like being in a time machine! Thanks!
You bet! And good description!
Harrison was my great great great grandfather’s first cousin (his mother’s sister’s son).
Amazing. American history.
He sounded like a real man with a joyful spirit america felt like America then
I heard he still has two great-grandchildren living
Fantastic.
PLEASE make a backup channel on Rumble, Id hate to see a UA-cam disaster wipe out your work.
Good idea, thank you. I will check into Rumble more, it's a Canadian company from what I read so good so far!
William H Harrison's grandson Benjamin Harrison was the first person to have a voice recording
A voice from the 1800's. Pretty cool.
good voice man, imagine a phonograph from edouard de martinville recording abraham lincoln's voice even though his voice is not very clear
when the pibby glitch gets on benjamin harrison
Your clearly too young to be on here. Get off.
Amazing is he the first President to be recorded on audio ?
Yes, rutherford B. hayes has a voice recording but it's lost
What happened to your video about the farmer born in the 1840s? That one was so interesting and when I went to show someone it was gone!
Yes me too, that farmer was the wisest man I have ever listened to.
Of all these recordings of people from the 1800s it seems like standard American English hasn’t changed very much despite coming from isolated places with different backgrounds.
Strange hearing the voices of eras gone by. I bet he had no idea that his voice would still be heard hundred years later in the 21st century
Evan loves to watch these videos
Pretty cool stuff! I didn’t realize recording had been invented that early.
I believe this same channel has another video with a video recording made in the 1930s talking about the invention of the telephone back in the 1800s. Definitely worth checking out.
There is a wax recording of a greeting speech recorded by Queen Victoria to an African Leader also around on youtube. I love channels like these,
Although the first sound recording was recently discovered to have been made around 1860, it is 'officially' believed that Edison invented the technology in 1876 (the same year as the invention of the telephone). But, like a lot of technology that came from that era, it would take years before these inventions became part of everyday life.
Many of these 100+ year old voices sound closer to the British dialect then present day American dialects.
So cool
Fantastic
I wonder why no one recorded the voices of many of the Civil War leaders like Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Chamberlin, etc.
PS What is Harrison saying?
The subtitles are in the video
he's saying "dojyaaan"
It’s crazy to think that 1889 truly was not that long ago
That’s the year my Great Grandfather was born and I was born in the year 2000 so therefore my Great Grandfather and I are 100 years apart
@@fatassdogs8617 111 years apart.
@@lukasr1166 sorry I meant 1899 🙄
That was so cool
1889 Speech = No
It would be napkin speech
Personally, I think the original recording probably captured the timbre of his voice more authentically! The enhanced version altered his pitch upward!
I agree, the original, unaltered version sounded more natural which it was of course. The enhanced version sounded more robotic in a sense and less natural. I prefer the original version.
The first great invention developed by Edison in Menlo Park was the tin foil phonograph. The first machine that could record and reproduce sound created a sensation and brought Edison international fame. Edison toured the country with the tin foil phonograph, and was invited to the White House to demonstrate it to President Rutherford B. Hayes in April 1878
Edison National Park service
Not sure if president Hayes recorded anything but heard it
Great recording, but I believe it to be a little later than 1889.
It sounds better than my mic
I Thought He Said Hello
I feel blessed hearing this becuase hes my great grandfather and was a better person then my other greatfather william henry harrison
What is that supposed to mean. Harrison was a war hero and christian man.
I enjoyed the video of the farmer born in 1842. Will you be re-posting it on your channel?
Yeah, why was the video deleted?🥲
The video was removed due to a copyright claim. I had no choice on the matter and would keep it up if I could.
The video was removed due to a copyright claim.
@@Lifeinthe1800s did the farmer make the copyright claim? I hope it will be available somewhere else online soon, it was great. Thank you for this content!
Why does he not say "dojyaaan"
"Our two countries" which countries was he referring to?
fun fact: a lot of you are related to presidents (even if you don't have same last name sometimes you can be 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th/6th/7th, yea you get it) I do not know if I'm related to any presidents
We need to get him on the ai presidents meme get ai to learn his voice from this
Sounds like they held his speech on a stagecoach
Weird how on old recordings of Americans how different the speech patterns were and even accent....more sing song and hitting high notes
Wow a 134 year old voice of Benjamin Harrison!
felicidades por la placa de 100.000 es mi presidente favorito
Welp, that's actually sort of how i imagined it ;)
My question is how did they record this?
What other nation was Harrison referring to here in this speech? Was there a pending conflict? I'm doing research and would appreciate any help from the Audience on the matter.
The Human iceberg speaks
He was Miami University class of 1852. I was class of 1997. 😂
I like him, I think he was the greatest president of all after this speech.
Research the body snatching of his father.
Sounds like all the others
¿Por qué dice "dos países"? 🤔
It is believed that this is the oldest surviving recording of any president.
Are you sure?
It is the oldest surviving, Rutherford B. Hayes had one but it didn't survive
Why does he say "As president I was..." making it sound like he was past-tense president? His term was from 1889-1893, so this would have been early in his presidency if it was recorded in '89
because the event he was present at was past tense.
@@onekie5787 I suppose. Wording was still odd.
A contemporaneous joke: "An empty carriage arrived at the White House and Benjamin Harrison got out." Accurate or not, it's funny.
Random fact: Me and Benjamin Harrison share the same birthday
He is my favorite us president he embraced technology though he wasafraid of electric lights when they first came out at least you knew his weakness he was so unique I don't think we will have a us president like that again but I hope I'm wrong
He got the xbox 360 mic
the original voice sounded it came from a 2bit processing voice recorder or smth ngl
Story is he was so good at speaking to the public in speechs but his people had to keep him away from speaking to people individually because he had a iceberg personality and they were afraid he would tick folks off therefore hurting election chances
D4C NO SARA NARU DANKAI DA!!!
Channel owner - why was the farmer video I watched recently, removed?
The video was removed due to a copyright claim. I had no choice in the matter.
"With God's help."
Amen
I think he means jesus
dojyaaan
The original sounds like he was riding a galloping horse whilst delivering his speech.
Do you know which TWO countries he is talking about??
This is certainly one of the earliest if not the earliest surviving recording of a president . But I don't think the date is correct. Too early. Just because he attended the first conference in 1889 doesn't mean that is the year it was recorded. Still it's a fascinating artifact and recording.
why was there a dutch flag in the beginning ?
Where's the other country that we're supposed to live 'side-by-side, in peace etc.'?
(You got to work on that Ben.)
Which 2 countries was he referring to? North and South?
If he did it tells you how still divided US was back then after the Civil War
I think he was referring to the U.S. and Canada.
North and South America...
Probably the US and Spain
dojyaaan