John McCormack - The Trumpeter - 1915 Victor Red Seal Record

Here is the "World's Greatest Lyric Tenor" Mr. John McCormack singing The Trumpeter from 1915. The Victrola is a 1921 Victor VV-100

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[TheAMPorter]

Thanks for sharing this. The Trumpeter was my grandfather's signature tune. He died in 1917 and I have a newspaper cutting from then reporting his death. He was a well known baritone on the Dublin concert platforms and this song was very popular with his audiences. I had never heard it because he was only 29 when he died, long before I was born in 1957, so many thanks, it brought a tear to my eyes.

[victrolaman]

@TheAMPorter Thank you so much for sharing such a special part of your family history with me and others, here on the Victrolaman Channel. It is very special to know that one of my Video postings allowed you to hear for the first Time a song that your Grandfather, a renown Irish Baritone, loved to sing. How sad that he left this world in the prime of his life !! Thank you for sharing.

Victrolaman

[boogerie]

part II

Alas my grandmother's collection was lost in the great flood of 1927. Fast forward 40 years to the 1960's and my father brought home a collection of Victor 78 albums, which include much of the same selections as my grandmother's collection. Soon after dad bought an electric phonograph. I can remember listening to them as a young boy with my mother and how McCormack's "The Trumpeter" & "I will take you home kathleen" could drive her to tears.

many thanks

[victrolaman]

You are very welcome. It always warms my heart when one of my videos can rekindle some fond memories of the past, and someone's growing up years, and loved ones. How sad, that your Grandmother's collection was lost, but how wonderful, that many of those same records that she treasured were found again by your Dad, for your Mom to hear once again. Thanks again for watching and for your wonderful comments.

[Choowbz]

I have the empty case of a similar model and I have been told they were made from an "Irish oak" that was renowned for its sheen and grain.

The veneer panels of this decorative oak were an early Irish export.

[victrolaman]

How interesting. Thank you for you input.

[tateallen2011]

Thank you for this. I have to learn this song for my voice lessons and this helped me out a lot. This song is so beautiful.

[ciroalb3]

it's quarter sawn fumed white oak. they put the moistened oak in a chamber with strong ammonia for a few days and the ammonia brought out this shade in the oak. It might have varnish, but otherwise it's a natural finish. A beautiful sentimental Edwardian ballad to which he gives a haunting interpretation.

[oldnedofthehill]

Did Richard Tauber, or someone else, do a version of this? I recall my aunt had this record but it was a different version with the actual trumpet calls playing in the background. I particularly remember the charge!

[ThunskaLad]

Absolutely marvelous! I haven't heard that in years. Its proper 'lump in the throat' stuff for me. Many many thanks indeed.

[boogerie]

part I

words can't express the gratitude i feel for you're making this video. my maternal grandmother would regularly go to the RCA Victor store in New Orleans in the 1920's with my mother in tow. She would describe the "dog hearing his master's voice" disply standing outside the store and how it was as tall as she was at @ 6. Nana managed to amass an impressive collection: Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, Fritz Kreisler, Serge Rachmaninoff, Galli-Curci, among others.