Thank you for helping make this song immortal, Henry. Its sentiments are so woven into the flesh and spirit of human life that they will always be inseparable from our emotions. The emotion of beauty is immortal.
Harry/Henry had the most easily recognizable recorded voice in history, I swear. His accent & pronunciation, which I find impossible to place, sounded like nobody else, ever. He's still pleasant to hear, too !! Thanks.
I'm so glad to find this here. I found a 78 recently with a chip that takes out the intro entirely. I'd never heard any version but Elvis', and I fell in love with the Burr 78 immediately. Very clean rip, here - thank you!
I'm a long time Henry Burr fan ( real name is Harry McKlaskey) born in St. Stephens New Brunswick. I stood on the lawn of the house he was born in. He does a great version of O Canada on Youtube. Fantastic singer. Elvis was great too, and the fact he did this song so well, is because it's actually a fantastic song.
This is by far the Best Version of Lou Handman's song. It is the only version that contains the intro that i know of...Al Jolson's version is too...well too Jolsonie..if you know what I mean...the best version of the modern era is of course Elvis...But this is the way it was intended to sound...very old fashioned..
@barnaba1964 Al Jolson didn't record the song until 1950. For some reason, Wikipedia and others have claimed that Al recorded a bunch of songs in the 1920's that he actually didn't record until the 1940's. "Carolina in the Morning" and "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" are two others.
Very nice pre-Elvis version
rockyrmt 1 week ago
Nice and enjoyable.
not2b8b4u 1 month ago
awesome song...he has an indian accent :P
krishiyer1989 2 months ago
Thank you for helping make this song immortal, Henry. Its sentiments are so woven into the flesh and spirit of human life that they will always be inseparable from our emotions. The emotion of beauty is immortal.
SMNONA100 2 months ago
Awesome!!!
jdsingsagain09 3 months ago
a great tenor for VictorTalkingMachineCompany...
VTMCompany 4 months ago
Harry/Henry had the most easily recognizable recorded voice in history, I swear. His accent & pronunciation, which I find impossible to place, sounded like nobody else, ever. He's still pleasant to hear, too !! Thanks.
edisone1 4 months ago
Leon Redbone does a great rendition of this song ( better than Elvis )
1948timothy 8 months ago
I'm so glad to find this here. I found a 78 recently with a chip that takes out the intro entirely. I'd never heard any version but Elvis', and I fell in love with the Burr 78 immediately. Very clean rip, here - thank you!
Polyphemus47 10 months ago 2
I'm a long time Henry Burr fan ( real name is Harry McKlaskey) born in St. Stephens New Brunswick. I stood on the lawn of the house he was born in. He does a great version of O Canada on Youtube. Fantastic singer. Elvis was great too, and the fact he did this song so well, is because it's actually a fantastic song.
schnefsky 10 months ago
This is by far the Best Version of Lou Handman's song. It is the only version that contains the intro that i know of...Al Jolson's version is too...well too Jolsonie..if you know what I mean...the best version of the modern era is of course Elvis...But this is the way it was intended to sound...very old fashioned..
ZAPDUNGAA 11 months ago
thank you you tube for these wonderful videos awesome awesome
abetelgeuse 1 year ago
the original version was of Al Jolson 1926.
barnaba1964 1 year ago
@barnaba1964
WRONG...the original version was recorded by the songwriter himself Lou Handman on piano and his sister Edith singing the lead vocal.
ZAPDUNGAA 1 year ago
@ZAPDUNGAA but I didn't talk about record at home.... but about the original studio recording....
barnaba1964 11 months ago
@barnaba1964 Al Jolson didn't record the song until 1950. For some reason, Wikipedia and others have claimed that Al recorded a bunch of songs in the 1920's that he actually didn't record until the 1940's. "Carolina in the Morning" and "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" are two others.
CatsPjamas1 11 months ago
Henry Burr and Sidney Crosby are the two most famous products of the Canadian Maritime provinces.
RRaquello 1 year ago
Wonderful !!!
Dick
dickmeurs 1 year ago 2
This man..
This man DEFINED Canada!!
He's the inventor of the proujd flagg!!!!!
Perilous3D 1 year ago
This is beautiful...Burr was a great singer.
DougNY10 1 year ago
That's amazing, I never heard this version before. Elvis made it famous all around the world, but hats off to the original artists and songwriters!
AudioMobil 1 year ago
Wonderful phrasing, a good arrangement, only copied over the years. Great to hear the introduction.
BerlinBo 1 year ago
Very, very nice!
antinotis 1 year ago