Greatest Bel Canto tenor who ever lived. My Irish grandfather bought me an album of John Mccormick singing Irish songs when I was 9 years old. I have been in love with Mccormick ever since.
@@benzflynnyour too precise it's nice to be nice you say mccormack I say mccormick everyone knows who The great Irish singer is Count John Mccormack 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
He was my dad's favorite. When I was a kid, I HATED when he would play it, I would ask why we had to listen to this "old opera singer." Of course, age brings appreciation. I can't get enough now.
This is the first time I have seen John McCormack, though know his voice well from CD and radio broadcast. The world's other top tenors of his day reckoned that John McCormack had the most beautiful of voices - they weren't wrong.
It was my Father’s favorite as well. Of course, my Father was an Irish Tenor. He had a beautiful voice and sang at weddings , funerals and any place by else he was asked
McCormack studied the Italian 'Bel Canto' style in Milan in the early 1900's. The Bel Canto really shows itself in McCormack's wonderful diction and superb breath control. One of the best lyric tenors ever. Che bellissima voce. Bravo Maestro McCormack. Grazie mille.
Bravo bravo 👏 Thanks very much for Posting this wonderful opportunity to see a film of John McCormac • My Favourite Song by my favourite Singer • Geoffrey Stansfield United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Rosebery Hotel NE2 1ET • My Grandmother was from Southern Ireland 🇮🇪
It is very moving for me to see this film of John McCormack singing, etc. Since I was about 16 years old, I have enjoyed his artistry. I have this on an old vhs video. I watch it once in awhile to feel what it must have been like to see and hear him in person. He is a very special singer to me!
All good singers are sadly gone, now the generation z owns the world, i really miss the lost generarion, they were good singers and they were good people.
the story is that his mother in law hummed this song, but did not know the lyric or title. JM & Schneider hunted through all the music shops and finally found it. Too bad he didn't sing it c. 1914
Apparently, they were staying in the same hotel and someone asked Caruso what it feels to be the best tenor in the world. Caruso said: I don't know, ask John.
@@mjw12345 I heard a different version of the story in which John asked Caruso directly, "how is the best tenor in the world?" to which Caruso responded by asking, "when did you become a baritone?"
@@mark32646 Yep. She hasn't. Caruso, McCormack, Gigli easily the top 3. This was before 1930s when Hollywood and AMERICANA would insert itself as the cultural producers and content creators for the West, and globally, not Europe. Americana with its Big Band music, Frank Sinatra, Day, Crosby, etc. and THEY looked up to Caruso and McCormak as the bar and model, especially Sinatra. That in itself is a unique era, but the cultural dominance would truly pronounce itself as Pop Culture in the 1960s and continues to this day.
A beautiful love song, sung by the one and only John McCormack: what diction, breath control and tenderness of delivery.
Greatest Bel Canto tenor who ever lived. My Irish grandfather bought me an album of John Mccormick singing Irish songs when I was 9 years old. I have been in love with Mccormick ever since.
👺 *McCormack* not McCormick.
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@@benzflynnyour too precise it's nice to be nice you say mccormack I say mccormick everyone knows who
The great Irish singer is Count John Mccormack 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Lucky 9 year old boy. Your father was a very cultured man. He knew greatness when he heard it.
He was my dad's favorite. When I was a kid, I HATED when he would play it, I would ask why we had to listen to this "old opera singer." Of course, age brings appreciation. I can't get enough now.
The clip is from the only full length movie John McCormack was ever the lead in entitled ‘Song o My Heart’ 1930.
This is the real and true way to sing everything
From his only starring film role - thankfully it survives
This is the first time I have seen John McCormack, though know his voice well from CD and radio broadcast. The world's other top tenors of his day reckoned that John McCormack had the most beautiful of voices - they weren't wrong.
Oh, this man sing directly to the human heart...the GREAT John McCormack, the singer that was admired by Caruso himself
Such a beautifully slow pace if life back then. And what a Voice!
Irelands most gifted tenor in folk songs and opera.
what diction: sung by my favourite singer. Also, a lovely song.
Brings back memories of my Cork granny's wind-up gramophone was listening to Elvis then now can appreciate 2 wonderful singers
The timing of the man is superb.
It was my Father’s favorite as well. Of course, my Father was an Irish Tenor. He had a beautiful voice and sang at weddings , funerals and any place by else he was asked
McCormack's grandmother told him about the song, so he, along with Edwin Schneider, combed every music shop in Dublin until they found it.
McCormack studied the Italian 'Bel Canto' style in Milan in the early 1900's. The Bel Canto really shows itself in McCormack's wonderful diction and superb breath control. One of the best lyric tenors ever. Che bellissima voce. Bravo Maestro McCormack. Grazie mille.
Bravo bravo 👏
Thanks very much for Posting this wonderful opportunity to see a film of John McCormac • My Favourite Song by my favourite Singer • Geoffrey Stansfield United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Rosebery Hotel NE2 1ET • My Grandmother was from Southern Ireland 🇮🇪
Always moving.
my dads song for my mum love it
I 1st heard of him while growing up in IRL late 50's, I loved his singing, I'm delighted to have seen him on film now, thanks so much for sharing.
It is very moving for me to see this film of John McCormack singing, etc. Since I was about 16 years old, I have enjoyed his artistry. I have this on an old vhs video. I watch it once in awhile to feel what it must have been like to see and hear him in person. He is a very special singer to me!
All good singers are sadly gone, now the generation z owns the world, i really miss the lost generarion, they were good singers and they were good people.
The best
Goosebumps!
As Good as it Gets!!!
It doesn't get better than that
Listenn to him sing "IL Mio Teasoro from Mozart's Don Giovanni" you'll think you died and went to heaven.
Marvelous!!!
The best
A great bel canto tenor Voice
Leyendo la obra de James Joyce Ulises ,me entero de este gran tenor Irlandez.
the story is that his mother in law hummed this song, but did not know the lyric or title. JM & Schneider hunted through all the music shops and finally found it. Too bad he didn't sing it c. 1914
After Caruso, there was the great McCormack. We had to wait for Bjorling to get someone so good.
Apparently, they were staying in the same hotel and someone asked Caruso what it feels to be the best tenor in the world. Caruso said: I don't know, ask John.
@@mjw12345 I heard a different version of the story in which John asked Caruso directly, "how is the best tenor in the world?" to which Caruso responded by asking, "when did you become a baritone?"
Check out the Scottish tenor, Kirk Stevens who recorded The Siver Madonna.
Ireland's answer to Pavarotti...or Italy's answer to McCormack....?
Wish Carlos Gardel had recorded this song. Like many, he must have been influenced by McCormack.
the third finger on his left hand is as long or longer as/than the second
Isn't that mia farrows mother at 2:53
x Ive heard better but if mum loved it so do I x
If it weren't for McCormack, no one would know the song ever existed. And you haven't heard better.
@@mark32646 Yep. She hasn't. Caruso, McCormack, Gigli easily the top 3. This was before 1930s when Hollywood and AMERICANA would insert itself as the cultural producers and content creators for the West, and globally, not Europe. Americana with its Big Band music, Frank Sinatra, Day, Crosby, etc. and THEY looked up to Caruso and McCormak as the bar and model, especially Sinatra. That in itself is a unique era, but the cultural dominance would truly pronounce itself as Pop Culture in the 1960s and continues to this day.
@@lucientintenebris7331 You can add Tito Schipa to the list.
how potato farmers dress well in ol'Ireland.
Fab