Show us your records by Famous Historical Figures

[solophoneman]

Ok, here it is for all you history buffs who wanted to hear the Teddy Roosevelt Speech from his 1912 Bull Moose Party Campaign, here it is and complete with the photo of Teddy on his favorite pet MOOSE !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2R9-mo4FNQ

[Lenoirstreetguy]

Oh heck, while I'm at it I might as well do this one too. This is "our own dear King" (as my grade one teacher used to say) doing the first radio Christmas message in 1932. This one went out on short wave too so it was the first one to be broadcast throughout the Empire as well. It was a mega-hit, and has become a Royal tradition ever since. We still watch it to this very day, and yes, we did watch Betty Windsor do her number this past Xmas before we sat down to lunch.
Jim

[solophoneman]

Here is another one from my collection of Famous Personalities on Record. This one the famous very short recording of General John J. Pershing from the Battlefields of France in 1918 during WWI on the "Nation's Forum Label" which was pressed by Columbia.

[richardh]

Solophoneman,

Now there is a recording I'd like to hear. Any chance of posting a transfer of that disk?

RJ

[solophoneman]

Ok, I will try to do this for you. It is extremely short, I am guessing 30 seconds maybe, after all General Pershing was in the middle prosecuting a WAR and was on duty 24/7, so you couldn't expect him to take up too much time in formulating a message to the folks back home. I will try to put it up sometime on Friday at the earliest. Here is a very nice portrait/Print I have of Black Jack Pershing. This fellow would have certainly impressed Central Casting at the Movie Lot if they wanted someone who really looked like a General.

[solophoneman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fH7rKoc ... L&index=37

Ok here it is, this was taken from the same recording on Nation's Forum so it saved me some time. This is exactly what it sounds like. One of the shortest recordings on 78rpm about 30 seconds.

Bruce

[saxymojo]

Hi Shane
Here are recordings from the record.
Part 1
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqil5U4i2w8[/youtube]
Part 2
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bMTnJP9yT8[/youtube]

Regards Marcel

[richardh]

Solophoneman - thanks for posting that speach -as you say short and too the point! Nevertheless very interesting.

Marcel - an interesting speech by Miss Australia and how she views both Australia at that time and comparing it to the USA. The most interesting bit for me was her accent - only just distinguishable as Australian and certainly nothing like the accents you tend hear today which to my ear are much stronger and more pronounced. Also interesting that she aspires to the American way rather than the UK which had very strong links to Oz in those days. Thanks for posting - that was very interesting (although doesn't she ramble on about beauty parlours and clothes!!)

RJ

[gramophoneshane]

[MordEth]

Richard,
It's funny you mention the accents. To me, she sounds like just about any girl you'd meet at the local pub
We do have a range of aussie accents though. It's usually pretty easy to tell if someones from Melbourne, or from far north or country Queensland by the way the speak. Even certain words are changed. If I mentioned "sand flies" to Marcel & Mario, they'd probably give me a strange look & tell me they're midgies

Shane,

I read Richard’s post before listening to the YouTube videos (and Marcel, thank you for making those videos! They were very interesting to get to hear. ), and because of it, I was thinking the same thing...

I googled ‘midgies’ out of curiosity—you’re talking about ‘midges’? I’m not sure if I’d heard that term before; in Florida basically we just had mosquitoes.

I think that stereotypically in the film that we tend to see over here, perhaps your countrymen (and -women) are often portrayed with a more marked accent, or perhaps just a different regional accent than this particular Miss Australia. Certainly there are a range of ‘British’ and ‘American’ accents.

I still haven’t managed to pick up a Boston accent. I like pronouncing my ‘r’s.

And thanks to the BBC, I’m a lot better with British slang than Aussie slang.

Although with the passage of time, accents change—I think you’d be hard-pressed to find an American today who sounds like the gentleman on this Columbia sample record:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwVR_jlA44M[/youtube]

solophoneman: I’d meant to thank you previously for tracking down a video of that speech—that was interesting to hear as well.

— MordEth