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.
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
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.
