Enrico Caruso - Over There

Caruso singing Over There for Victor in 1918. His contribution to the war effort.

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• Caruso
• Victor
• Orthophonic

[claynpendleton]

Love your phonograph, what is it?? I have a humble 1919 Silvertone oak table-top model (sold for about $30 in the Sears Roebuck catalog at the time). My research puts this recording about 10-15 yrs after the original recording (Was this a copy of Caruso's original 1918 recording?). [The main clue was the label " And do you know of any other original 1918 Cohan recordings out there?

[merrihew]

@claynpendleton Actually, this is one of a series of a couple of hundred records that HMV (the British equivalent of Victor) issued in the early 1950's. Some were pressed from the original masters; others were dubbed. The machine is a Victor Orthophonic Electrola Radiola Borgia II from 1926. Quite a mouthful.

[noblescaa]

Once read the it was all phonetic and he did't understand a word he was singing. He sang it dressd in red, white and blue shirt, tie and jacket to a 125,000 NYC police reservists!!!

[merrihew]

great comment

[merrihew]

Thank the orthophonic and Laubscher needles.

[merrihew]

I know, his English and French aren't that great.

[zigvog]

Apparently, brass instruments and some of the plucked stringed ones like guitars and ukeleles, recorded fairly well in the acoustic system. Thank goodness that some of the great voices - Caruso's certainly - also were caught, however limited the frequency range may have been, yet with fidelity enough still to give so much pleasure to listeners. There is a remarkably good sound here.

[chicho1950]

Excellent singer. Çthe very best uncomparable tenor. No one has dare challenged him.

[venhellsing777]

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[claynpendleton]

Love your phonograph, what is it?? I have a humble 1919 Silvertone oak table-top model (sold for about $30 in the Sears Roebuck catalog at the time). My research puts this recording about 10-15 yrs after the Great War, do you know of any original 1918 Cohan recordings out there?

[klokheten]

Possibly Caruso´s most amusing recording and as usual he delivers with rhytm and power. This is really to enjoy!

[hswatnik]

what a treasure!

[TehProgresses]

GO COMPARE

[drperky8]

Chorus) Par la-bas, par la-bas,

Qu'on le dise, sans meprise, par la-bas.

Nous emboitons le pas, emboitons le pas,

Le ram-plan-plan du tambour bat..

On s'apprete, pour la fete,

Bataillons, escadrons, et fanfares,

Se preparent, nul ne reviendrait,

Sans avoir vu, sous ses coups, les boches defaits

(although he pronounces the last sentence: sans avoir - vu - sous - ses - coups bla bla bla)

[drperky8]

His french seems worse than his english so it's quite hard to pick out at times:

1) Johnnie, sac au dos, sac au dos, sac au dos,

Pars au grand gallop, grand gallop, grand gallop,

Entends-tu? Le clairon sonne,

Pour qu'il ne manque personne

2) Allons mele-toi, au convoi, sans effroi,

Pour flatter ton pere, par en guerre, l'ame fiere,

A ta payse, tout bas et murmure "ne t'en fais pas"..

[gramophoneshane]

Do you mean the French chorus?