Enrico Caruso - O Sole Mio (very early remastering)

This is of course the flip side of the "Rigoletto" aria.

Artist: Enrico Caruso
Title: "O Sole Mio" (by di Capura)

Label: RCA Victor Red Seal
Cat No: 1616-A
Release Year: 1940s ?
Country: Canada
Format: 10" Shellac Record

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Enrico
• Caruso
• Sole
• Mio
• di
• Capura
• Neapolitan
• 78
• RPM
• RCA
• Victor
• Red
• Seal
• Dual
• Turntable

[jbruschetti]

I remember sitting in the living room on a Sunday afternoon and listening to Caruso with my Dad. It was an old wind up record player. I love those the little scratches. My dad would tell me the words in english. He had seen Caruso performed and said there will never be a voice like his. He was very proud of Mario Lanza, [ he was Italian after all] but said he just didn't have the strength and power that Caruso had. I think that he was rightfully prejudous..

[VinylToVideo]

@jbruschetti Mario Lanza was a complete joke; a man who sang in opera once in his life in the least liked tenor role and otherwise only recorded on a Hollywood sound stage. The phrase "the American Caruso" was made up by his record company and movie execs for sales. The real "American Caruso," as in an American spinto tenor who had a career closest to Caruso himself, was Richard Tucker.

[Hunorrrr]

The oldest Sole Mio ... the best! Caruso the best!

[TheShantry]

Beautiful..

[31operafan]

Good remastering, but his voice sounds a little quiet. Computers and modern sound equipment would fix those kinds of issues.

[VinylToVideo]

@tsmlink Well then don't get offended so easily. The fact that you are is reason enough for him to continue doing it.

[tsmlink]

@Panzombren swearing is completely unnecessary and offensive to some of us...

[calasazules]

GENIO!!!

[hammapolita]

EL INOLVIDABLE CARUSO, SOLO CARUSO EL MEJOR..

RECIEN VI UNA RESEÑA DE SU INTERESANTE VIDA. 

ESCUCHARLO ME ESTREMECE......

[alternatehistories]

WoW. I'm glad I can listen to & appreciate my old 78s without agonizing over whether I've got an early "B-plate", or a later pressing! It's about the music people - so quit doggin VinylToVideo over which pressing he/she used for this video! I'm, as always, glad to see people posting these videos & preserving the great artists of the past for future generations to enjoy. I'll take a scratchy 100 y.o. performance over ANY modern version. After 1950, something got lost, the quality just isn't there

[redoler]

This is a bit-muffled rendering by the Master, of a lovely Neapolitan city-ditty.

Don't argue. Point to better versions.

Or shut up.

Take your aforementioned evocations of jesus christ with you. Interferes with the splendour of old Caruso.

Nowt to do with 9/10. Ref - Grindingly -ignorant-sod - post.! (i.e. yours) Panzobrem

Keep off the plaza, your comments could be those of a buffoon. Or a babboon.