The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

[racecar445]

so real

[devil0717]

@phmontag hey~ actually they did have the voice recording tech. back then!!!!!! so crzy right? I heard and saw documentaries tv's etc. they did have ti! lol

[PurpleLink11]

It's Snape!

[mrhowardvalencia]

148 years ago today...

[Username22481]

i have to memorize this for school and this vid helped me so much, ty

[jokkergar]

waht is the name of the background music???

[phmontag]

@jokkergar Antonio Vivaldi - Siciliano

[jokkergar]

@phmontag thanks

[CadensNanna09]

Thanks for posting. I am going to use this in a lesson plan.

[b00i00d]

"Is this his real voice?"... DUH!!! But whose voice is it??? Sounds like an english actor...

[FrancoHitlini]

As the phonograph wasn't invented until 1877 how can this be Lincolns voice? Maybe they hired an English medium and Lincoln repeated it back from the spirit world..... or maybe the English guy just read it from a script huh?

[Txboy85A]

How stupid, if we all can remember correctly- President Lincoln was a country boy and was teased constantly about it. British as corndodgers.

[jtflyer]

I can say with absolute certainty that this is the actual recording of Abraham Lincoln delivering the famous speech at Gettysburg on Thursday, November 19, 1863. In fact most people aren't aware that Lincoln actually played a violin during the speech and that violin can be heard in the background if you listen very carefully. The British accent was easily explained away as indigestion. Most fascinating is, when played in reverse, the words “Help, my wife is killing me!” can be clearly heard.

[77MUDBOGGER]

@jtflyer where did you find this out? or how?

[ricblegg]

@jtflyer: I heard that was the Gettysburg Philharmonic, and that if you play it backward, it actually says Paul Is Dead at the beginning, but at the end, it says Elvis IS Alive at Burger King.

[Hariuka]

I always imagine lincolns voice as in every movie they had it in, that calm aging man sounding voice that kinda makes you think he is just a normal man who is talking and not a president.

[zany2x]

Growing up in Kentucky and South Indiana, Lincoln spoke in a somewhat high-pitched, Southern accent, not a British accent! lol The nearest contemporary voice we have would be that of the actor, Will Geer, who spoke with a high-pitched Indiana sound and often played Southerners. Besides, this Englishman makes the speech a dirge instead of a promise.

[LocoRico89]

Voice needs to be higher

[EastBayFM]

actually they did record his voice, they did have records back then and with records means you can duplicate sound to put on those records. Last i heard, the actual disc containing the voice of abe lincoln was either lost, destroyed or something like that...

[ashir90210]

ru the dumbest person ever? obbbbbbviously this isn't his real voice

[alanlamers]

why does the voice have a British Victorian accent?

[whitejackt]

I wish people spoke ike this, Intelligent, compassionate, direct, One of the best speeches ever given by the greatest president in US History

[ChubbyBearNutz]

they do have a recording of him but its very rare. he would have a very country accent. think of a Louisville accent. thats what he would sound like. where as jefferson davis of the same time had a more deep kentucky accent.

[eastonsteve]

People who actually heard Abe speak wrote that he sounded more like "Tiny Tim" with his falsetto voice.

[aspergershawn]

no, it is just a modern recording of the text he wrote

[lawanbrown16]

its funny how abe is a fully born american but has an english accent good Shiz

[jgknightboyz2000]

i'm related to lincoln. he is my distant cousin.

[Pickuptruckdude]

lol no dude i checked his family tree his last Relative cousin died in 1985

[lpvcrcd]

I read Lincoln sounded a little bit like Phyllis Diller. or was it Miss Marple? One of the two

[B21983]

oooh Lincoln was British? Sounds nice

[Massiveman23]

everything sounds better with a British Accent

[thexela]

@Massiveman23 well the general American accent didn't exist back then!

[IpodTouchtop10]

@Massiveman23 dude British accents are really annoying.

[1991MRjesse]

@IpodTouchtop10 the opinion of one person doesn't equal fact.

[TwilightBookaholic]

They got some of the words wrong!

[checkyesemily]

haha some words in the speech are definately not even correct.

[Plankicorn]

Actually, they did have voice recording technology in the time of Lincoln's presidency.

[branhoff2]

Lincoln is English!?

[grungefreak10]

We may have evidence of how Lincoln appeared, but unless we have any actual recordings of his voice (the first known vocal recording dates back to 1860, as a matter of fact) then we can only imagine what a historical figure's voice sounds like, based on anecdotal evidence (which is of course, very subjective in nature.)

[porchematt22]

LOL sounds like Tony Blair... lincoln defiantly did not sound like this

[alexbeathalo2]

actually Thomas Edison invented a voice recorder and recorded abe's voice. its rare to find

[brooklynblacksmith]

@alexbeathalo2 thomas edison never recorded lincoln!...he was only 18 when lincoln died!

[Meese3Cheat]

he probably sounded a little like a fast talking tennsseie boy except more understandable

[samjo1718]

what a wonderful speech

[Deneb33]

Since He was born in Kentucky, I think his voice may have actually saounded quite hillbilly. And his many contemporaries say it was high pitched. But this fact is bad because actors and historians don't want people to know that, they want Lincoln's voice to saound like James Earl Jones or somebody you hear in an opera. One contemporary said his voice carried like a trumpat. Maybe he had to shout a lot, since there were no microphones.

[inkey2]

I heard that too.....that Lincoln had a high pitched voice....too bad we will never really know what he sounded like

[quizmasterdave]

@inkey2 Andrew D Basagio and his father heard his voice in 1863. Andrew was talking about it on youtube.

[RainyDayWoman531]

Nice! Except whoever is talking reminds me of the Grinch.

[liuzhongjun]

It's a pity that thy great voice disapeared.

[Gondorcon]

Lincoln had a squeeky voice...

[Joohhvis]

NO!! He's not an old geezer! Listen!

[ImgonnamissyouSarah]

lol an old geaser :]

[makavelidon04]

no,this is just some old geaser reading this

[dipseylalapoe]

Thankyou! Is this his real voice??? Tell me A.S.A.P.

[phmontag]

No, it's not his real voice, I don't think they had the technology back then. I got this recording off of a CD I found at the library a long time ago, "America's Greatest Speaches".

[BrBilal]

Great Recording! All of the others available on youtube, frankly, sound ridiculous.

[saber1994]

@phmontag They did have that technology but it sounded like crap

[MashedAvacado]

@phmontag if he had not been assassinated he probably would have lived to see that technology

[78bobob]

@dipseylalapoe timeline fail