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Published on: 2008-05-27T22:02:16.000Z
Mahalia! Where she lived and prayed
Description: Visit where the famous Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson lived and prayed while Mahalia sings the gospel classic "His eyes on the sparrow."

Published on: 2007-05-29T02:43:49.000Z
She (Thanhouser, 1911)
Description: A short clip from this long-lost film.

Published on: 2009-07-30T09:03:22.000Z
Edison Blue amberol recordings 1911 / 1910 - Maria Galvany - (Playlist in Info)
Description: I ADD OLD FILM EFFECT. Thanks to "gmmix". Please visit: www.youtube.com ===== Edison recordings on Blue Amberol recordings 1911 and 1910: Soprano Maria Galvani sings: "Sempre Libera" La Traviata" Composer: Guiseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi 1813-1901) "Alma l'incantatrice" (L'esclave de Carmoëns, revised in 1852 as Indra, das Schlangenmädchen, revised in 1878/I a: Zora l'enchanteresse, and in 1878/II as Alma l'incantatrice,) Composer: Friedrich von Flotow (18121883). ===== Maria Galvany (1879 - 1944) Born in Granada, she studied at the Madrid Conservatory with the renowned singing teacher Lázaro María Puig and Napoleone Verger. She made her debut as Lucia at Cartagena in 1897. Specializing in coloratura roles, she sang with great success in Spain and Italy, gaining her greatest popularity in South America. She also toured with a company that performed throughout Europe, including Russia (where she was a favorite singer), visiting London 1909, where she appeared at Drury Lane as Amina, Rosina and in the title role of Meyerbeers Dinorah. In Lisbon she sang uninterruptedly for 15 years at the Coliseu. She gained great success in Parma, Venice, and Genoa. It seems rather strange, however, that she never managed to appear at La Scala, the Met, the Teatro Cólon or at Covent Garden. She retired to Brazil and died there in poverty.

Published on: 2007-11-04T04:46:19.000Z
DW GRIFFITH THE SUNBEAM 1911
Description: The Sunbeam 1912 Cast: Gerald Griffin, Mabel Taliaferro, Warner Anderson, Raymond McKee, Claire McDowell Ynez Seabury Dell Henderson Kate Bruce ,George Hennessy - Screenwriter Billy Bitzer - Cinematographer Summary: Gerald Griffin plays Stephen Rutherford, is a wealthy, crotchety old man who disowned his son for marrying a poor girl. His son has since passed on, and he still refuses to acknowledge his wife Prue (Mabel Taliaferro) or their grandson Bobby (Warner Anderson), even though Prue works at Rutherford's own candy factory, bringing some happiness to the other workers there. She gets involved with Danny O'Maddigan (Raymond McKee), a reformed criminal whom she is helping to keep out of trouble. Prue and Bobby are out walking when he is run over by a vehicle owned by the Rutherford factory, and he is brought to the old man's home, where he takes a liking to the boy without ever realizing it is his grandson. Grandfather, daughter-in-law, and grandsonare reconciled but Danny has now gotten into trouble for pilfering $10 from the receipts to pay for his grandmother's 75th birthday party -- in the process, his former criminal associates steal the rest of the receipts, and Danny is blamed for the entire burglary. Rutherford, his heart softened by his reconciliation with Prue and Bobby, learns that Prue is in love with him and helps him beat the charges, and Danny is released so that he can marry Prue. DW GRIFFITH AT Stories ranged from the pedantic to the brilliant ...

Published on: 2010-02-18T20:23:57.000Z
French Contralto Jeanne Gerville-Réache ~ D'une Prison (1911)
Description: French contralto Jeanne Gerville-Réache (1882-1915) / D'une Prison (Verlaine; Hahn) / Recorded: May 5, 1911 -- French contralto Jeanne Gerville-Réach (born March 26, 1882, Orthez, France - died January 15, 1915, New York). Her father was governor of Martinique and Guadaloupe and she came to Paris when she was 15 to study singing with Rosine Laborde. Through the intercession of Emma Calve, he was able to finish her studies with Pauline Viardot-Garcia. In 1899 she had a successful debut at the Opera-Comique in the title role of Orphee et Eurydice, and on April 30, 1902 she created the role of Genevieve in Pelleas et Melisande there. In 1901 she made guest appearances at the Brussels Opera and in 1905 at Covent Garden. In 1907 she came to the Manhattan Opera. Thereafter she was uncommonly successful in the United States. She also sang in Boston and Philadelphia, Chicago and Montreal. In 1910 she married the director of the Pasteur Institute in New York, Georges Ribier Rambaud. She had a sumptuous, warm-timbered contralto voice of great dynamic quality. She died at the early age of 32 from food poisoning in New York City, leaving behind her husband and two sons. She has a great-great grandson and granddaughter living in America. (Sources: Kutsch & Riemens Concise Biographical Dictionary of Singers / Chilton Book Company / 1969; wikipedia) ******************************

Published on: 2008-10-05T08:04:27.000Z
Contralto Janet SPENCER ~ BOLERO (1911)
Description: (Arditi) / Recorded: 1911 / Speed: 76 rpm **************************** American contralto Janet Spencer had a successful career in concert and oratorio. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she made her debut at the age of 16 when she appeared with the Boston Festival Orchestra, touring later throughout the United States and Europe. She was an intimate friend of Geraldine Farrar, encouraging Miss Farrar in her Met career. In her later years she gave voice lessons in Hollywood, California, where she died in 1948 at the age of 74. **************************** THE NEW YORK TIMES, 04 November 1910 MISS SPENCER'S RECITAL / Admirable Singing of Interesting Songs in Mendelssohn Hall Few singers now before this public have developed their art so rapidly and in so many of its exacting phases as Miss Janet Spencer, contralto, who gave a song recital yesterday afternoon at Mendelssohn Hall. It was an occasion that offered an altogether unusual pleasure on account both of the interesting program of songs and of the truly remarkable skill, versatility and fine artistic power with which she sang them. Miss Spencer's admirable contralto voice has been well known in New York concert halls for a number of years now, where it has been heard chiefly in oratorios. In turning her attention to songs she has penetrated deeply into a form of art that is in certain respects more subtle and more difficult. Miss Spencer's voice is well remembered as a peculiarly rich contralto which she uses with freedom ...

Published on: 2010-03-25T09:42:57.000Z
American Contralto Janet Spencer ~ O don fatale (1911)
Description: American contralto Janet Spencer / O don fatale / Don Carlos (Verdi) / Recorded: March 8, 1911 -- ITEM: (PHOTOGRAPH) The first, second, and final images of Spencer are from the Sunday, March 25, 1906 edition of The New York Times, prominently sharing pride of place at the top of a page headlined 'Music and Music Makers', with the portraits of noted tenor Alessandro Bonci and violinist Franz Kneisel. The portrait used in the third and fourth sequence are surely from the same studio session as image featured in the NYT. Janet Spencer had a successful career in concert and oratorio. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she made her debut at the age of 16, appearing with the Boston Festival Orchestra. She later toured throughout the United States and Europe. She was an intimate friend of Geraldine Farrar, encouraging the younger star in her Met career. In Spencer's later years she gave voice lessons in Hollywood, California, where she died in 1948 at the age of 74. She made nine recordings on Victor's prestigious Red Seal label. ****************************

Published on: 2009-01-26T11:50:08.000Z
Una Furtiva Lagrima - Enrico Caruso 1904 and 1911
Description: Caruso recorded Una furtiva lagrima three times. Here are the recordings from 1904 and 1911. The first recording from 1902 - see here: www.youtube.com More Caruso info on my website: www.enricocaruso.dk Una furtiva lagrima (A furtive tear) is the romanza from Act II, Scene 2 of the Italian opera, L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti. It is sung by Nemorino (Caruso) when he finds that the love potion he bought to win his dream lady's heart, Adina, works. Nemorino is in love with Adina, but she isn't interested in a relationship with an innocent, rustic man. To win her heart, Nemorino buys a "love potion" with all the money he has in his pocket. The "love potion" is actually a cheap red wine sold by a con business traveler. But when he sees Adina weeping, he knows that she has fallen in love with him and the "Elixir" works. Caruso created the role of Nemorino the first time in February 1901 at La Scala in Milan. The conductor was the famous Toscanini, but the notoriously critical and reserved audience of La Scala did not react at all ... until Caruso started singing - and he basically turned the performance from failure to success. The audience went wild and Caruso was compelled to repeat "Una furtiva lagrima" three times. When Toscanini came back stage to go before the curtain with the artists, he embraced Caruso, then turned to the manager of La Scala, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, and said "Per dio! Se questo Napoletano continua a cantare così, farà parlare di sè il mondo ...

Published on: 2010-02-19T17:00:38.000Z
French Contralto Jeanne Gerville-Réache ~ L'Année En Vain Chasse L'Année (1911)
Description: French contralto Jeanne Gerville-Réache (1882-1915) / L'Année En Vain Chasse L'Année / L'Enfent Prodigue (Debussy) / Recorded: May 5, 1911 -- French contralto Jeanne Gerville-Réach (born March 26, 1882, Orthez, France - died January 15, 1915, New York). Her father was governor of Martinique and Guadaloupe and she came to Paris when she was 15 to study singing with Rosine Laborde. Through the intercession of Emma Calve, he was able to finish her studies with Pauline Viardot-Garcia. In 1899 she had a successful debut at the Opera-Comique in the title role of Orphee et Eurydice, and on April 30, 1902 she created the role of Genevieve in Pelleas et Melisande there. In 1901 she made guest appearances at the Brussels Opera and in 1905 at Covent Garden. In 1907 she came to the Manhattan Opera. Thereafter she was uncommonly successful in the United States. She also sang in Boston and Philadelphia, Chicago and Montreal. In 1910 she married the director of the Pasteur Institute in New York, Georges Ribier Rambaud. She had a sumptuous, warm-timbered contralto voice of great dynamic quality. She died at the early age of 32 from food poisoning in New York City, leaving behind her husband and two sons. She has a great-great grandson and granddaughter living in America. (Sources: Kutsch & Riemens Concise Biographical Dictionary of Singers / Chilton Book Company / 1969; wikipedia) ******************************

Published on: 2010-02-17T09:24:47.000Z
French Contralto Jeanne Gerville-Réache ~ Chanson du Tigre (1911)
Description: French contralto Jeanne Gerville-Réache (1882-1915) / Parmes les lianes au fond des savanes ~ Chanson du tigre / Paul et Virginie (Masse) / Recorded: May 5, 1911 -- French contralto Jeanne Gerville-Réach (born March 26, 1882, Orthez, France - died January 15, 1915, New York). Her father was governor of Martinique and Guadaloupe and she came to Paris when she was 15 to study singing with Rosine Laborde. Through the intercession of Emma Calve, he was able to finish her studies with Pauline Viardot-Garcia. In 1899 she had a successful debut at the Opera-Comique in the title role of Orphee et Eurydice, and on April 30, 1902 she created the role of Genevieve in Pelleas et Melisande there. In 1901 she made guest appearances at the Brussels Opera and in 1905 at Covent Garden. In 1907 she came to the Manhattan Opera. Thereafter she was uncommonly successful in the United States. She also sang in Boston and Philadelphia, Chicago and Montreal. In 1910 she married the director of the Pasteur Institute in New York, Georges Ribier Rambaud. She had a sumptuous, warm-timbered contralto voice of great dynamic quality. She died at the early age of 32 from food poisoning in New York City, leaving behind her husband and two sons. She has a great-great grandson and granddaughter living in America. (Sources: Kutsch & Riemens Concise Biographical Dictionary of Singers / Chilton Book Company / 1969; wikipedia) ******************************

Published on: 2008-12-05T14:35:16.000Z
Dr. Gertrude Barber (1911-2000)
Description: Gertrude Barber lived at the forefront of her field. She founded what is now the Barber National Institute in the early 1950s to help disabled children receive education and support -- an idea many at that time opposed. "She dreamed dreams that, at that era, were not thinkable," said Maureen Barber-Carey, the executive vice president of the institute and Gertrude Barber's niece. Today, the institute provides services from preschool to job training. Throughout Barber's career, she "was never satisfied with the status quo," said Erie City Councilman Joe Schember. His 22-year-old daughter, Jodi, who has Down syndrome and is autistic, has been involved in programs at the institute for most of her life. He said Barber was ahead of her field in devoting resources to autism, now a chief focus of the institute. "She was definitely in the forefront of the nation in recognizing that there's something going on here that we need to address," Schember said. Barber's motivation came from years as an Erie School District administrator telling parents of disabled children that their children had no place in school, Barber-Carey said. "She shuddered every time she had to do that."

Published on: 2009-12-09T19:55:27.000Z
Alma Gluck sings "Qual fiamma avea nel guardo," from I Pagliacci. 1911
Description: Alma Gluck (1884-1938) was born in Romania, and made her Met debut in Orfeo ed Euridice in 1909. She appeared in 94 productions at the Met, including 6 performances of I Pagliacci, in which she sang the role of Nedda. She studied briefly with Marcella Sembrich but soon turned her attention to concertizing and the recording of popular and semi-popular tunes of the era. Late in her career she also sang on the radio and was at one time called a "radio singer." She may have felt that her voice did not have the weight and color necessary for a long career, especially at the Met, or it may be that she saw a bigger financial opportunity in popular tunes. Today, she might well be classified as a "cross-over artist." Whatever the case, her voice was lovely, and her enunciation was nonpareil: you can actually understand her, often every word, in Italian or in English. This can be said of very few opera singers then or now. YOU CAN FOLLOW MY BLOG AT: GREATOPERASINGERS.BLOGSPOT.COM

Published on: 2009-07-14T07:27:49.000Z
Contralto Janet SPENCER ~ The White Dawn is Stealing (1911)
Description: Contralto Janet Spencer / Four American Indian Songs (Eberhart; Cadman) / Recorded: April 25, 1911 **************************** American contralto Janet Spencer had a successful career in concert and oratorio. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she made her debut at the age of 16 when she appeared with the Boston Festival Orchestra, touring later throughout the United States and Europe. She was an intimate friend of Geraldine Farrar, encouraging Miss Farrar in her Met career. In her later years she gave voice lessons in Hollywood, California, where she died in 1948 at the age of 74. ******************************

Published on: 2007-07-28T20:18:20.000Z
TITANIC ( with some authentic film of her taken in 1911 )
Description: After the death of her cinema projectionist husband in England, his widow discovers in her garden shed a rusting canister below his work bench which contains authentic period newsreel film ( which appeared to have been forgotten ) of the RMSTitanic at rest in her engraving ( fitting out ) dock in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1911 shortly after she had been launched there on 31/5/11. Unfortunately this is the only actual film of the famous ship in existence and it does not last long. To make the video an acceptable length commercially, the producers of this film also included period film of the construction of her elder sister, RMSOlympic whose keel was laid in 1908 and the ice flows from 1912 to give viewers an insight of what the origin of Titanic was like and the environment during her tragic collision accident with an iceberg at 11.40pm on Sunday 15/4/12. Also seen is authentic footage of the Mackay-Bennett, which sailed out of Halifax , Nova Scotia, Canada being chartered by the undertakers ( morticians ) acting for the relatives of the deceased, in a quest to find and preserve bodies recovered from the sinking location in the North Atlantic where crew and passengers perished. The saviour ship of the 705 souls aboard who survived was RMS Carpathia, which is seen steaming across the ocean. You will also see the White Star line offices in New York and people helping to organise relief for survivors together with certain of Titanic's suriving crew including Robert ...

Published on: 2010-07-05T22:09:49.000Z
1911 singer treadle sewing machine
Description: Bought a treadle operated singer sewing machine for $150.00. Don't know if that's a good deal or not but I had been wanting one for a long time and when it came up for sale on craigslist I just had to get it. The history of the machine is this. Linda,s granny got this machine in 1911. Linda watched her granny sew clothes on it until granny passed and linda,s momma got the machine. Lindas momma had it till she passed in 2006 then Linda got it. Linda doesn't see and needs the space this was taking up so she reluctantly sold it. She was glad to see it go to someone who appreciates fine machinery and can fix things. I told her when I restored it I'd send her a video of me sewing on it. My first project will be adding a zipper to the windshield curtains on my truck. My wife wants to try her quilting on it as well. I'm happy to have this and can't wait to get started cleaning it up.

Published on: 2010-08-08T19:07:37.000Z
In Memory of Mitch Miller RIP 1911~2010 - I Want to be Happy
Description: This is a Genuine G-Shot in memory of Mitch Miller. By Suzanne Cloud of the Philadelphia Inquirer: Remembering Mitch Miller. A genius of gimmicky songs and family fun is a jazz singer and executive director of Jazz Bridge, a nonprofit that assists Philadelphia-area jazz and blues musicians in crisis Mitch Miller and the Sing Along Gang blew onto American TV sets in January 1961, unabashedly celebrating that the family that sings together clings together. To this 9-year-old, there wasn't anything so mesmerizing as that devilishly smiling, goateed gentleman, staring right into my eyes in front of an army of singing men whose voices were enveloped in an echo that seemed to bounce around our living room. The show was an instant hit with my family and we never missed it. We would throw open the windows when the weather got warm so the neighbors could hear us singing along with Mitch: "Five-foot-two, eyes of blue . . . could she, could she, could she coo?" I didn't know then that Miller had been the terror of some of the most popular singers of the day just a few years before his TV debut. Miraculously, Miller consistently turned the schlocky songs he forced these singers to record for Columbia into instant hits - think "Come on-a My House" by Rosemary Clooney or "Mule Train" by Frankie Laine. OK, so Frank Sinatra's "Mama Will Bark" was a dog of a recording (with strategically placed canine howls in the mix), for which the singer never forgave Miller. I also didn't know that ...

Published on: 2010-05-04T13:35:12.000Z
TITANIC (with some authentic film of her taken in 1911)
Description: After the death of her cinema projectionist husband in England, his widow discovers in her garden shed a rusting canister below his work bench which contains authentic period newsreel film ( which appeared to have been forgotten ) of the RMSTitanic at rest in her engraving ( fitting out ) dock in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1911 shortly after she had been launched there on 31/5/11. Video Credits: JazzJohn2004 Unfortunately this is the only actual film of the famous ship in existence and it does not last long. To make the video an acceptable length commercially, the producers of this film also included period film of the construction of her elder sister, RMSOlympic whose keel was laid in 1908 and the ice flows from 1912 to give viewers an insight of what the origin of Titanic was like and the environment during her tragic collision accident with an iceberg at 11.40pm on Sunday 15/4/12. Also seen is authentic footage of the Mackay-Bennett, which sailed out of Halifax , Nova Scotia, Canada being chartered by the undertakers ( morticians ) acting for the relatives of the deceased, in a quest to find and preserve bodies recovered from the sinking location in the North Atlantic where crew and passengers perished. The saviour ship of the 705 souls aboard who survived was RMS Carpathia, which is seen steaming across the ocean. You will also see the White Star line offices in New York and people helping to organise relief for survivors together with certain of Titanic's suriving ...

Published on: 2009-08-27T00:20:00.000Z
Gaiety comedienne Connie Ediss sings "I Like To Have A Little Bit On" from "Peggy" 1911
Description: The great Gaiety Comedienne, Connie Ediss sings "I Like To Have A Little Bit On" from a George Edwardes Gaiety Theatre production "Peggy". Recorded by HMV in London on 15th August 1911. "Peggy" was the first of a series of musicals under a contract that Edwardes had signed with composer Leslie Stuart, with a libretto adapted from a French play by George Grossmith. It starred comedian Edmund Payne, George Grossmith and Phyllis Dare, and opened on 4th March 1911, running for 270 performances and closing on 16th December 1911. Whilst "Peggy" opened to excellent reviews, its popularity began to wane earlier in the run than had been expected. In order to shore up the wilting production, George Edwardes had a new role written for Connie Ediss who had returned from America in "The Girl in the Train" and supplied her with two new songs written by Arthur Wimperis and Philip Braham, one of which was "I Like To Have A Little Bit On". Unfortunately this song and the other one "Which He Didnt Expect From A Lady" featuring the buxom Miss Ediss in harem pants were not enough to ensure a continued success, and the show was withdrawn by Edwardes just before Christmas of 1911. Connie Ediss was born in Brighton, England, August 11, 1871, and was educated there and in Edinburgh. She made her first appearance in the English music halls under the name of Connie Coutts, and was "discovered" by Ted Marks while singing at the Oxford, London. Her First London appearance at the Middlesex Music Hall ...

Published on: 2008-07-24T03:34:22.000Z
Keri shoots Colt 1911
Description: Keri shoots a modified Colt 1911. I'm pretty sure she wasn't too keen on this one.

Published on: 2009-11-30T23:56:54.000Z
Herman's Hermits Henry the 8th 1911 Edison phonograph recording by Harry Champion
Description: And you thought Herman's Hermits wrote this! Well, it was actually a popular song in England from the time it was written in 1911. Some lyrics were added or changed by the time HH recorded it in 1965. This is the original two minute version, played on an Edison Standard Model A phonograph. This version lacks a couple of stanzas available on 78 RPM recordings, which are a minute longer. The title of the song was also HEN-E-RY the Eighth, not HENRY the eighth. You don't know who you're looking at; now have a look me! I'm a bit of a nob, I am--belong to royalty. I'll tell you how it came about; I married Widow Burch, And I was King of England when I toddled out of church. Outside the people started shouting, "Hip hooray!" I said, "Get down upon your knees it's Coronation Day!" And--I'mmmm Henery the Eighth I am! Henery the Eighth I am, I am! I got married to the widow next door, She's been married several times before. Every one was a Henery; She wouldn't have a Willie or a Sam. I'm her eighth old man named Henery, Henery the Eighth I am! I left the "Duke of Cumberland", a pub up in the town, Soon with a couple of moochers I was holding up the Crown. I sat upon the bucket that the car men think their own; Surrounded by me subjects I was sitting on the throne. Up came the Portman, he said, "You get off to bed!" But I, "You say another word and off'll go your head!" For I'm Henery the Eighth I am! Henery the Eighth I am, I am! I got married to the widow next door, She's been ...


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