1917 John McCormack - The Star Spangled Banner
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- Опубліковано 25 тра 2024
- McCormack is vocally backed by Victor session regulars Macdonough, Murphy, Werrenrath & Hooley.
Long-ago transfer from Victor Red Seal 64664 - The Star Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key-Samuel Arnold) by John McCormack and Male Chorus, orchestra conducted by Joseph Pasternak, recorded in Camden NJ March 29, 1917
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This recording hit #1 in the charts in 1917. McCormack also, at this time, declared his intentions to become an American citizen, which was finalized in 1919.
So nice to hear a singer hit every note of this difficult song spot on! (With the Victor Orchestra, as always, dragged kicking and screaming into tempo with the singer.)
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Magnificent, thrilling, hair-raising...!!!
Thank you for another John McCormack recording. My dad told me that the 'red seal' RCA records were the more valued recordings. I'm not sure if that was because the performances on them were superior or if it was just because he noticed the price difference. There are SO many questions you can no longer ask once they are gone.
There was a McCormack recording that he used to rave about and it had to do with a very long note with only one lungful of air. I'm wondering if anyone would be able to say which one that was.
Because he was so very popular, John McCormick records have little financial value, but he truly was one of the top tenors in the world for many years. You can listen to most of his recordings on the internet so you don't have to chase around at flea markets for them. They are all available, as far as I know. Google McCormack/ Il Mio Tesoro for that greatest example of perfect breath control ever recorded, followed by another amazing example of Bel Canto, Oh, Sleep, Why dost thou leave me (from Handel's Semele), and you must hear him sing Ah, Moon of My Delight... All easily accessible on UA-cam, hopefully forever, no point in chasing around flea markets anymore. Il Mio Tesoro is not something with one very long note. It is an aria with a series of connected runs which he sings all on one breath, about 20 or 25 seconds worth, and others have tried it, without the success or dignity of big John. He was mostly self-taught, did study for a season or so with a great Italian teacher. He could hold a candle in front of him and sing without moving the flame. There's a lot of stuff with him in performance and from the couple of terrible movies that he was in where he does sing beautifully. Later in life he does, unfortunately, sound like he's imitating himself, and gasping for air a bit. I think he died from emphysema, so he probably smoked... That'll get 'cha. Plus, I knew an old Scotch woman at music Camp, early 1960s, who was on a crew to get him sobered up for concerts when he'd come in intoxicated an hour before the performance and they'd pump him full of coffee and whatever, and he'd go out and sing like an angel. He WAS Irish.... Enjoy! G🐸🦖D
@@georgedabrowski6900 Thank you, George (my middle name). My description wasn't the best. As soon as you said, 'series of connected runs', I immediately heard my dad playing the piece for me in my mind's ear. I think I know which one it is now and I think it is this one you mentioned. When I give your recommendations a wee listen, I will leave you another reply. Thanks again; it pays to put the questions out there.
@@festidious2644 Good luck. Listen also, if I may recommend, to McCormack's recordings of Macushla, Molly Branigan and The Foggy Dew. In looking these up, I discover you can find tons of stuff, videos with McCormick singing, there's even one with him vocalizing in his kitchen or whatever and he did have a perfectly aligned, flawless voice, singing on the breath. Enough. Enjoy.
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@@georgedabrowski6900 Thank you, George for your recommendations. None of them were the one I remember but I'm sure now I can find it if I just take the time. The one I recall was a note with a circular spiral going up a step with each round.
'Macushla' seemed at the end to display an aperture control as well as breath control unless he was just turning away from the horn. 'O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?' had such similarities to some of The Messiah pieces. I always like how Handel could take a two syllable word and give it twenty-six. It was very nice chatting with you.
An Irish tenor sings during WW1,
I Agree!
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