Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Speaks (with music)

[SkippyZ1210]

This t'aint Mark Twain. T'aint neither. Gwan now.

[ferociousgumby]

Holy cats. Get Huckleberry Hound instead.

[MrElmarwan]

I like how Mr.Twain sounds like when I read him silently instead.

[murraymae]

Mark Twain is SO DEEP, on par with lincoln. I think. Wonder if that really is his voice. There are so many conflicting opinions.

[MaryStewart]

sounds fake!

[mikecronis]

Not Twain. Fail.

[davidholman48]

Recording cylinders of Twain's voice made by Edison were destroyed in a fire. A terrible loss, but those are the facts.

[Charples13]

OMG!!!! INCREDIBLE!!!!! WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS? IT SOUNDS SO MUCH LIKE HIM AS I REMEMBER.

[dennismoore56]

@Charples13 That  made my day.

[Ruubikon]

Fake

[ChrisKnight22]

the real captain America, mark twain : )

[TheBrilliantGeniuses]

just like time

2010 pizza

see told you he was markin' dat tweet twice

taint it a'shame well glory bee in your huck finn

bonnet mean mean stride tomorrow

[jcpillars]

helen keller, which was a personal friend of his and could only recognize voices by touching the voice box, said that her impression of his voice was deep and resonant.

[RantzinmyPantz]

Oh you know he really sounded like Sam Elliot

[zeekwolfe]

Gosh, I don't know what I 'd do without that banjo making noise in the background. It really helps to understand what Mr. Clemens is saying.

[keviel]

Great! There is a lot of excellent information on this fascinating man. Best of luck with your report.

[zyloa4ever]

imk doing a report on him

[CaptainGoodNote]

There are NO known actual recordings of Mark Twain's voice. I'm active in a Mark Twain discussion group and this topic has come up there. Various Twain scholars have searched and hoped for, but no one has yet discovered any voice recordings of Twain.

[keviel]

Very true...apparently some wax Edison cylinders were made but lost in a fire. There are written descriptions of his voice and style, and one wax cylinder of someone imitating him in the museum in Hannibal. Some described it as low and slow and resonant, others as a combination of Missouri drawl and a Connecticut twang.

[SongsofInnocence]

Was that his voice! You must be kidding me!! Haha..

[Sactreats]

That was not his voice. There are recordings of Sam Clemons from the early 20th century, and his voice was nothing like that. First of all, his Missourian accent was real, not fake, and he had a high-pitched kind of whiny voice.

[qlvz]

Where can I hear a recordong of Mark twain's voice? I've always been curious about his voice because I've read where he was mocked about it because it was as you say, whiney.