Thank you so much for posting this beautiful song! Jan Peerce, Richard Tucker and Mario Lanza had exceptional voices, each with it's own beauty. I recall many a night when my Dad opened the Grundig, and we took turns in chosing which 78 we wanted to hear!! What an awesome memory!! Now, I'm 10 000km from the 78's and we miss listening to them!!
One of my earliest recollections (I was about 3) was being taken to a church where my Father sang "Panis Angelicus". His voice had been slightly damaged by illness and surgery but the rural congregation gasped. I doubt they had ever heard a trained tenor. One day Jan Peerce visited. He and my Father sang together while I listened slack-jawed in amazement. Thank you for letting me hear Mr. Peerce again. My dear Father's voice is in my mind forever.
I don't know which I am impressed with more---Jan's performance or the fact that it is being played on the wonderful, classic Dual turntable made in Germany; please be advised that the Dual turntables, with 3-speeds (78-45-33 rpm) are definitely lifetime keepers and translate the analog signal into such perfection that digital could never match. With Jan and Dual, how can you go wrong? Thanks a million for posting.
@KojiRecords I don't use that turntable anymore. All it does is chew up the records with that arm; even their best decks during the 70s did. I hate to say it (I wouldn't even buy a Jap car), but the Jap company Pioneer made the best stereo equipment in the 70s.
@VinylToVideo I agree with you about records being chewed up. I don't know why people knock the fabulous digital transfers. I have some stuff on an MP3 and I can hear excellent quality with it in the car. The digital age meant we could get wonderful transfers and even "enhanced" recordings from some pretty rough old 78s. I would prefer to hear a clear enhanced Caruso or Gigli than something which sounds as if it was recorded in a force ten gale.
@voicemad All I said is I don't use this particular turntable anymore. I use my other turntable far more often than I use my iPod, but most often I'll transfer the recordings to CD. I do not listen to MP3 files as they sound worse than cassette tape.
Peerce's performance in this song, as with everything else on this album, is OUTSTANDING. Thank you VERY much for sharing this with us!!!! Now, could somebody PLEASE post Richard Tucker's recording of this song, too, along with other selections from THE EXODUS SONG: RICHARD TUCKER SINGS GREAT SONGS OF LOVE AND INSPIRATION?? That recording is every bit as great in its own way as this one!
The fact that he could sing like this in his fifties is simply remarkable. I used not to be particularly interested in Peerce, but after his Duca di Mantua I had to hear more. Thanks.
At the age of 78 he had no rival. There is a great video of him singing Lenskys aria in Israel. Domingo couldent carry his dirty underware even at that age.
I will finish the post now, fast post before by accident but it was 1958 here and in 69' when I was living in Cal. I met him through a close friend of his the late Llyod Shapoff a friend of mine at the time and then I worked in Radio and arranged an interview and was surprised he mentioned my name on the radio, what a shock since I was a producer of a show not an announcer. I heard him many times in concert and twice in opera. His son is the movie producer Larry Peerce,made several films,
Yes from the title " Jan Peerce in Las Vegas" recording when he was 54 years old and that was the year I FIRST HEARD HIM IN A CHICAGO RECITAL and that was my first operatic recital ever at 17 years old. Years later we became friends when I
Thank you so much for posting this beautiful song! Jan Peerce, Richard Tucker and Mario Lanza had exceptional voices, each with it's own beauty. I recall many a night when my Dad opened the Grundig, and we took turns in chosing which 78 we wanted to hear!! What an awesome memory!! Now, I'm 10 000km from the 78's and we miss listening to them!!
misIndo 1 year ago
One of my earliest recollections (I was about 3) was being taken to a church where my Father sang "Panis Angelicus". His voice had been slightly damaged by illness and surgery but the rural congregation gasped. I doubt they had ever heard a trained tenor. One day Jan Peerce visited. He and my Father sang together while I listened slack-jawed in amazement. Thank you for letting me hear Mr. Peerce again. My dear Father's voice is in my mind forever.
wholeNwon 1 year ago
I don't know which I am impressed with more---Jan's performance or the fact that it is being played on the wonderful, classic Dual turntable made in Germany; please be advised that the Dual turntables, with 3-speeds (78-45-33 rpm) are definitely lifetime keepers and translate the analog signal into such perfection that digital could never match. With Jan and Dual, how can you go wrong? Thanks a million for posting.
KojiRecords 1 year ago 2
@KojiRecords I don't use that turntable anymore. All it does is chew up the records with that arm; even their best decks during the 70s did. I hate to say it (I wouldn't even buy a Jap car), but the Jap company Pioneer made the best stereo equipment in the 70s.
VinylToVideo 1 year ago
@VinylToVideo I agree with you about records being chewed up. I don't know why people knock the fabulous digital transfers. I have some stuff on an MP3 and I can hear excellent quality with it in the car. The digital age meant we could get wonderful transfers and even "enhanced" recordings from some pretty rough old 78s. I would prefer to hear a clear enhanced Caruso or Gigli than something which sounds as if it was recorded in a force ten gale.
voicemad 1 year ago
@voicemad All I said is I don't use this particular turntable anymore. I use my other turntable far more often than I use my iPod, but most often I'll transfer the recordings to CD. I do not listen to MP3 files as they sound worse than cassette tape.
VinylToVideo 1 year ago
One of the FEW who can walk in the bedroom slippers of Caruso.
herminestover 2 years ago
Peerce's performance in this song, as with everything else on this album, is OUTSTANDING. Thank you VERY much for sharing this with us!!!! Now, could somebody PLEASE post Richard Tucker's recording of this song, too, along with other selections from THE EXODUS SONG: RICHARD TUCKER SINGS GREAT SONGS OF LOVE AND INSPIRATION?? That recording is every bit as great in its own way as this one!
jmccracken1963 2 years ago
Yes I have that fantastic Tucker album on both LP and reel to reel. Will post excerpts eventually.
VinylToVideo 2 years ago
thanks for posting...indeed one of our family favorite songs.....And besides, Jan is a family member!
peacewomanisrael 2 years ago
Pinkey Pearlman One of the great tenors of the 20th centuary
tenorismo 2 years ago 2
The fact that he could sing like this in his fifties is simply remarkable. I used not to be particularly interested in Peerce, but after his Duca di Mantua I had to hear more. Thanks.
nclysander 3 years ago
In a few weeks I plan on posting him singing some arias at about age 78. Just have to get them off the record.
VinylToVideo 3 years ago
At the age of 78 he had no rival. There is a great video of him singing Lenskys aria in Israel. Domingo couldent carry his dirty underware even at that age.
tenorismo 2 years ago
He had a great and rare voice. The rare part is that he has his voice whole in is later years, which is very rare for tenors. Bravo
Michaelbos 3 years ago
Wonderful song.
Gvieto 3 years ago
I like his version very much, unlike most others he starts softly and builds up to a nice forte.
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
this is wonderful. yes Lanza's recording of this was not especially good.
ShawDAMAN 3 years ago
@ShawDAMAN - What!! You don't care for Mario Lanza's version of this selection. I believe it is most inspiring.
bonnies1234567 1 year ago
Peerce also sang in the Bach Aria Group with Eileen Farrell many years ago and many live Toscanini recordings and film.
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
Sung wonderfully with the easy soft start, then he builds up, very fine and past 50 years old.
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
I will finish the post now, fast post before by accident but it was 1958 here and in 69' when I was living in Cal. I met him through a close friend of his the late Llyod Shapoff a friend of mine at the time and then I worked in Radio and arranged an interview and was surprised he mentioned my name on the radio, what a shock since I was a producer of a show not an announcer. I heard him many times in concert and twice in opera. His son is the movie producer Larry Peerce,made several films,
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
Yes from the title " Jan Peerce in Las Vegas" recording when he was 54 years old and that was the year I FIRST HEARD HIM IN A CHICAGO RECITAL and that was my first operatic recital ever at 17 years old. Years later we became friends when I
pearlmuth3 4 years ago
This was my class song for 8th grade in 1963.
Jibbie49 4 years ago 2