Billy Murray - Titina, 1925

[Jonahrf]

This brings me back to a time... when i didn't exist!

[Cysmonkey]

I love his music... but saying his voice is "great" might not be the best word; It is unique and enjoyable, If he were to talk to you straight for an hour it mite feel like your ears where being raped with sandpaper condoms.

(preemptively) I'm sorry

[Bronyforever]

2:03 that ***** has dirty ass feet

[shortyblackwelll]

Billy had a long career. He startedin the late 1890s, and ended in the late 1920s. And he had a great voice!

[fizzypopism]

Rhyming hadn't been invented yet-ina.

[catwomn64]

This wonderful man was my great uncle - he was married to my mother's aunt Madeline for a very long time. It's wonderful to know his music is still appreciated and loved !!!!

[iDazzelYou]

LOL my dad just told me to listen to "titina my titina" and I was like what the heck is that? he was like just listen to it. Hahahah I am glad I did, becaus it made me laugh and it made my day xD hahahaha he said he heard it when he was 10 at his grandpa's house lol thanks dad!

[pongboy1100]

okay, that's it! i'm building a time machine inside a delorean car! and i am bringing a lot of monney becouse i am going back to buy some records & wax cilinders!

[elibetvalencia1]

LMFAO

[chaoman45]

I always thought Chaplin just came up with this song on the spot.

And now I know the name of the song he sung. Many thanks.

[DeutscheRossiya]

Billy Murray has one of the Cutest Male voices ever !I love a lot of his songs

[bassemsamehnaeem]

can anyone write the lyrics please?

[biryanifan]

@bassemsamehnaeem Let's see...

I've always been a restless rover in search of femininity;

I've met the pretty girls all over, but only one appealed to me.

My loving heart I tossed her, this Spanish kid in old Madrid,

She captured me and then I lost her, and ever since I'm off my lid.

I never will forget her face, I'm searching for her ev'ry place.

[biryanifan]

@bassemsamehnaeem

I'm looking for Titina; Titina, my Titina,

I've searched from Palestine-a to London and Peru.

I'll die without Titina, I can't eat my Farina,

I don't want Rose or Lena; Titina, I want you.

(Want any more?)

[bassemsamehnaeem]

can anyone write the lyrics please?

[BrandonTxOthor]

This song is so catchy,it sticks in your head. Another great find for me on YT. Thanks!I clicked on it because of the picture of Billy-I thought it was another famous Irish American:James Cagney. The pic full size I can see its not-but I think there is a great resemblance in Jimmy and Billy..

[MrXnews]

This apparently was Murray's last acoustic master, recorded in early 1925. The end of an era, 22 years after his first acoustic disc.

[sabinabarbara]

bellissima,dolcissima,grazie..­.spensierata...

[l0b1z0n]

Great!

[MikeBlitzMag]

While it is generally agreed that Billy Murray was the premier recording artist of the cylinder era, for my money, he is one of the absolute musical masters of the entire 20th century. Considering his vast recorded output, it is somewhat disconcerting that there are apparently no live performance clips of his work. If one does indeed ever surface, that would be answered prayer! God bless Billy Murray. They simply do not come any better.

[dorapezzilli]

@MikeBlitzMag

Svegliamo gli Italiani in America , ve'

[MrXnews]

@MikeBlitzMag He does appear in a couple of clips--one with the 8 Popular Victor artists (Movietone/MGM, soundtrack is lost), the soundtrack for another such film, and a hard-to-find film called "Meet the Pioneer Music Makers", not publicly available. You can find more at the "Denver Nightingale" site.

[MikeBlitzMag]

@MrXnews I was already very much aware of those and that website, thanks, but that just underscores my original point. A live performance clip would have to have a soundtrack, and at the moment, there isn't one readily available.

[biobain]

@MikeBlitzMag and to think hardly any one knows who this man is, yet he is pound for pound one of the biggest... wow

[FragileBitch]

@MikeBlitzMag Can't agreed no more. Especially with his "duck like" voice make every work of his splendid.

[TreblePop]

Thanks for posting. It is indeed catchy!

[andredupuy]

This is a terrific recording!

My father has several phonographs, including a working Edison cylinder phonograph with several dozen cylinders. Billy Murray sings on many of them. My dad tells me that because the recording process required the entire orchestra to sit around a horn (like those on old phonographs) with the singer and play as loudly as they could, singers who were loud and could enunciate well were favored. That also explains the emphasis on brass as opposed to strings.

[rapperchileno]

great jazz band with tenor accomp

greetings from Chile

[danakraken]

I love the images along with the song!

[kcnccarolina]

I see a similiarity with the guy that sang Yankee Doodle Dandee, Cagney? Nice voice, clear for being 20's wow, thx 240

[dzheger]

There was a nonsensical street version in Israel: "Titina, oy Titian, let's go to Palestina, we'll have a beautiful bathroom, with all the modern fixtures..." It rhymes in Hebrew.

[barbcard]

Thanks for this bit of information. Very funny;

strikes me as actually mildly ironic in its Israeli context,

even without knowing the Hebrew rhyme words for bathroom and fixture!

[barbcard]

American version of those German parodies, like the one about Frau Maier and others you've uploaded.

[smurfswacker]

Great song--this is the one that for years I imagined had been written by Charlie Chaplin, since it was used to such good effect in "Modern Times."

I've always been interested in the way that technology changes affected musical styles. For instance, the preference for brass-band arrangements both of popular and of classical music. Electric recordings brought string sections back.