Richard Tucker - "More" (theme from "Mondo Cane")

[sandraluz51]

VinyToVideo:Hermosa canción Yo ví la película siendo una adolecente todavía;Te imaginas si ahorita hiciéran una nueva Edición de como está el Mundo actual.Bueno,ésta Versión con éste cantante no la tenía,creo que solo la de Vic Dana,Gracias Mil,Saludos,sandraluz51.

[angelman51266]

Clear as a bell- WOW

[ChicagoSouthDan]

I said "I would be good" but I meant "It would be good".

[ChicagoSouthDan]

I would be good if you could post his marvelous renditions of "Who Can I Turn To" and "Why Did I Choose You" from the same album. It would be difficult for me to post them because I have only the original vinyl album. I have not converted it or any of my other vinyl albums from the 60s.

[ChicagoSouthDan]

I am 58, and I remember purchasing this album not long after it came out. From what I understand, it did not sell very well. Richard Tucker fans wanted to hear him sing opera, and fans of popular songs wanted to hear Sinatra or some other well known popular singer sing them. Too bad. In addition to hitting all the right notes, as you would expect from a great opera singer, he also brings emotion and feelings to the lyrics.

[ceccopisa]

Magnifico! Complimenti vivissimi. Grazie di cuore.

[Hjadlowker]

How beautiful! Unsurpassable Tucker!

[jmccracken1963]

This album, like the Ormandy / Philadelphia Orchestra "A Christmas Festival," shows that the second time around with a good idea doesn't always work as well. Tucker's singing is as good as on "The Fabulous Voice of Richard Tucker / Great Songs of Love and Inspiration," but the selections and arrangements aren't quite as good (not bad, but not as good as Skitch Henderson on the earlier album). Thank you for sharing this with us; Tucker is quite OUTSTANDING!!!

[ShawDAMAN]

Sounds like a native English speaker to me.... =P

Very nice recording and yes, great sound!

Isn't it ironic that the recording quality has advanced (as in the microphones) while the actual recording *medium* has in some ways taken a step backwards...

[VinylToVideo]

It's more opinion that recording quality has advanced. There are still some recording engineers that swear by a warmer sounding analog system and of course those listeners who swear by LPs for their greater frequency range over CDs. CDs are more convenient and of course you don't end up with those terrible pops and clicks over time but it's myth that CDs last forever; my 20+ year old commercially released CDs are starting to go while my 100+ year old Caruso records are still around.

[ShawDAMAN]

What is your own opinion? Is the actual recording equipment better now than it was, say, 30 or 40 yrs ago or not? I think most audiophiles will agree that good analog sound is better than digital but what about the microphones etc?

[VinylToVideo]

Well personally I prefer the sound of analog recordings like from the 40s-60s for opera but in other genres it doesn't matter. They overdo it on digital recordings of opera singers. I'm not really sure but I don't think there's been many advances with microphones for years (for example the Shure SM58 has been one of the best selling microphones since 1966); it's more in the post recording editing that you would hear the differences in modern recordings I would think.

[GermanOperaSinger]

This song was recorded by some of the big names in pop (Marvin Gaye, Sinatra) in those days, nice to hear it sung by a classical singer. Here we have the privilege to hear Tucker's rich baritonal lower register. Beautiful singing, could any other spinto tenor do popular music so well? Caruso maybe?

By the way, Excellent sound with capital E, indescribably better than what we usually get on those lousy mp3 files these days.

[VinylToVideo]

I usually prefer Peerce in popular music, but he had several years experience with it before his operatic career. Sometimes it just depends on the song though.

I agree; "MP3" files are absolute crap. And some think audio has come a long way? I'm quite content with my 35 year old stereo setup. Wouldn't be with a 35 year old TV though!

[GermanOperaSinger]

Usually lyrical singers like Peerce feel more at home singing popular music since they don't have to scale down their voices to sing it like more dramatic voiced singers have to.

On the issue of audio technology, I suppose people are just willing to sacrifice quality for portability these days. Not that it matters to me, I don't own an mp3 player and I never plan to!

[VinylToVideo]

True but anyways for me it usually depends on the on the song or sometimes even the arrangement; I have several of the same pop songs recorded by Peerce and Tucker. In the 50s and 60s they're the only two opera singer who could really do pop but then again they were the two famous American tenors recording for competing companies.

With an 'iPod' one can upload lossless files with the same quality as CDs but even still people still use 'MP3' files which are garbage.

[ShawDAMAN]

I own an mp3 player. :-[

(have I committed an offense against great music?) =P

I just love listening to my music when I am jogging/riding my bike/raking leaves etc; I use as high a bitrate as I can, but the thing is only 4GB. :P I guess I'd get an 80 GB ipod or something if I had the spare cash..... >_>

[VinylToVideo]

I have one, somewhere. (It was a gift.)

[ShawDAMAN]

lol.

[GermanOperaSinger]

Actually once you rip CD audio onto your computer it turns into mp4 or wma depending on if you use apple or windows, but like for me I use the iTunes media player and a PC so the movie maker doesn't support mp4 and I have to convert to shitty mp3 in order to upload to youtube. mp4, wma files have fine sound quality, I don't hear any difference between them and the CD itself. My dad always preferred LPs which is why he had a turntable well into the late 90s before it was thrown out accidentally!

[ShawDAMAN]

Yeah actually I use .wma format when ripping from CD's but sometimes if I get audio from other sources it is in mp3 format already.

[VinylToVideo]

Oops I have an "iPhone" now too :l

[ShawDAMAN]

For shame. lol

Seriously though are you happy with it? I've had people tell me it's way overrated, others say it's awesome.