A few sentimental songs by Harry Macdonough
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:52 pm
Harry Macdonough made his first record in late 1898, and it wasn't very long before he became one of the most prominent popular vocalists on the major labels of the day, most notably Victor and Edison. Macdonough is remembered for his sentimental songs, which he recorded as solos, as duets with John Bieling and others, and most notably as lead singer of the Edison Quartet (the Haydn Quartet on Victor).
Here's a representative sampling of Macdonough's output on Edison 2-minute wax cylinders:
"Good-bye my lady love"
No. 8684, released May 1904
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/ ... l4192d.mp3
"When the flowers bloom in springtime"
No. 9438, released January 1907
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/ ... l7399d.mp3
"On the banks of the Wabash"
No. 1570
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/ ... l2386d.mp3
Note that No. 1570 was originally recorded by George J. Gaskin and released as a brown wax cylinder ca. 1896; this rerecording by Macdonough, under the same serial number, was most likely made in 1903.
Rocky
Here's a representative sampling of Macdonough's output on Edison 2-minute wax cylinders:
"Good-bye my lady love"
No. 8684, released May 1904
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/ ... l4192d.mp3
"When the flowers bloom in springtime"
No. 9438, released January 1907
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/ ... l7399d.mp3
"On the banks of the Wabash"
No. 1570
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/ ... l2386d.mp3
Note that No. 1570 was originally recorded by George J. Gaskin and released as a brown wax cylinder ca. 1896; this rerecording by Macdonough, under the same serial number, was most likely made in 1903.
Rocky