Enrico Caruso : "A Dream" (1920)

This video is of the actual 1920, Victrola one-sided acoustic 78RPM record that features Enrico Caruso singing "A Dream".
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Category:

Music

Tags:

• pavarotti
• caruso
• opera
• tenor
• 78rpm
• record
• acoustic
• 1920
• george
• corneliussen

[manhatin]

I am very happy that others find this recording as special as I do. Thanks for the great comments.

[manhatin]

MikeJS57 , Thank you very much for your comment.

[manhatin]

fromthesidelines, He really does sound like he's giving it his all. Maybe he knew the end was near.

[manhatin]

Harrypottergirl15, I'm glad you like it. As for the quality, this is pretty much what the record sounded like back in the day when this record was hot off the press.

[manhatin]

phaota,

 "A Dream" was written by James Carroll Bartlett. He was born in Harmony, Maine in 1850. Many artisits recorded the song in the early days of recording.

[manhatin]

phaota, Sorry my posts are actual records playing in real time. I remove as much surface noise as possible, but the rest remains.

[MikeJS57]

Anyone who listened and didn't save this to their favourites has no soul. Thanks very much for posting it.

Mike from Wales, UK.

[kspm01]

Superb version! Thanks a lot for sharing.

[LanzaFan1948]

Wow, I am a Caruso fan and also a Lanza fan, this is one of the best songs I ev er heard by the maestro it actually blew me away. Had Mario recorded this it would have been a song he would have done justice making his mentor proud. Rest in peace both of you and thank you Maestro for leaving this to us.

[Nostalgico80]

@Edwin48100 They were recorded at a a number of speeds, often 74 or 75. But, since the end of WWI, 78 rpm was the most used speed for recording.

[Edwin48100]

Not a 78 RPM. Victor records recorded before 1925 were recorded at 76 RPM. That record is actually playing too fast at 78 RPM.

[petebestofthebeatles]

I have this very same 78 that I will never get rid of. I'm a Beatles, Yes & Moody Blues guy, these turn of the century sound recordings in their original format ( shellac ) are very dear to me. Thank you for posting this wonderful song !

[ROYCTHOMAS]

About 20 years ago I gave all of my 78's to a collector with good equipment and an air-conditioned garage. I didn't really want to, but had no place for proper storage or a decent functioning player. Since then I have replaced almost all plus many I did not have with re-issues such as "Prima Voce." A good lookup for available re-releases is arkiv.com. They have many vocal artists and a fine ARTIST - WORK - COMPOSER cross-reference. I also have a couple of Caruso discs that are dubbed.

[voicemad]

@ROYCTHOMAS I couldn't agree with you more. I got a bit tired of trying to ignore the scratches. The CDs opened a fabulous new world with the old singers. Thank God for modern technology.

[ROYCTHOMAS]

All of my old audio platters were donated to a collector 20 years ago, when I no longer had room for them. They have all been replaced with CD re-releases that are clean, quiet, and scratchless. I PREFER the modern CD's, even the Caruso albums with new "dubbed" orchestral backgrounds...

[TashkentFox]

Caruso records are a great place to start if you are a budding record collector, they're practically worthless (one of his HMV/Victor recordings can usually be bought for under a pound) they were pressed in the hundreds of thousands and are normally in very good condition (Probably because the people who bought his records were wealthy enough to change the needle with each play, preventing serious wear to the grooves)

[VictrolaJazz]

I have the ticket stub with Caruso's name on it from when my mother heard him in Ft. Worth, TX in 1920 as an 18 year old freshman at Texas Women's University--he would only make four more public appearances before his death. She wrote in her college memory book "I"m glad I went 'cause he went and died".

[tomfroekjaer]

Fine - great that you got hold of a nice collection.