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re: Old Timey -- a thread for pre-rock country, folk, and blues
Posted on 8/31/12 at 4:49 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
Posted on 8/31/12 at 4:49 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
Mound City Blue Blowers - "I Ain't Got Nobody"/"My Gal Sal" 1929
I really enjoyed this when I saw it for the first time a few years ago on TCM. The Mound City Blue Blowers are the kind of act you might have seen in a Chicago vaudeville theatre of the time. Their sound -- not quite jazz, not quite folk -- would be rediscovered a generation later by English teenagers such as John Lennon of Quarry School Liverpool. They would call it "skiffle".
I really enjoyed this when I saw it for the first time a few years ago on TCM. The Mound City Blue Blowers are the kind of act you might have seen in a Chicago vaudeville theatre of the time. Their sound -- not quite jazz, not quite folk -- would be rediscovered a generation later by English teenagers such as John Lennon of Quarry School Liverpool. They would call it "skiffle".
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Posted on 11/14/12 at 2:56 pm to Kafka
The original rockstar.
John McCormack - It's A Long Way To Tipperary
John McCormack - I Hear You Calling Me
John McCormack - My Wild Irish Rose
Grande Maestro: John McCormack - Il mio tesoro
Boardwalk got me on this kick, DWI.
John McCormack - It's A Long Way To Tipperary
John McCormack - I Hear You Calling Me
John McCormack - My Wild Irish Rose
Grande Maestro: John McCormack - Il mio tesoro
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Lawrence Tibbett and John McCormack got into a friendly argument about their respective B-flats. "I can sing a better B-flat than you can" Tibbett proclaimed and produced a sample. McCormack grinned and replied "Maybe so...but I get more money for my B-flats than you do." This ended the argument.
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Famous for his extraordinary breath control, he could sing 64 notes on one breath in Mozart's Il mio tesoro from Don Giovanni, and his Handelian singing was just as impressive in this regard.
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McCormack made hundreds of recordings... also broadcast regularly by radio and performed in a few sound films, among them the first British colour film, Wings of the Morning (1937), and Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941), where he had a small uncredited part.
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...had apartments in London and New York. He hoped that one of his racehorses, such as Golden Lullaby, would win the Epsom Derby, but he was unlucky.
McCormack also bought Runyon Canyon in Hollywood in 1930 from Carman Runyon.
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...made many friends in Hollywood, among them Will Rogers, John Barrymore, Basil Rathbone, Charles E. Toberman and the Dohenys.
Boardwalk got me on this kick, DWI.
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