Anthology: The Silver-Voiced Irish Tenor (George J. Gaskin)

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  Anthology: The Silver-Voiced Irish Tenor (George J. Gaskin)

  Anthology: The Silver-Voiced Irish Tenor gives a thorough career retrospective of one of the early industry’s most important performers. A former carpenter, Belfast-born George J. Gaskin was plucked from the vaudeville stage in early 1890 and planted in front of a recording horn at the New York Phonograph Company, which was trying desperately to satisfy demand for nickel-in-the-slot entertainment in public spaces. He shone: at a time when singers had to shout into the horn with no feeling in order to be heard clearly, Gaskin’s records displayed a rich emotional expressiveness—and his were the earliest recordings of many now-standard Tin Pan Alley hits. Despite being one of the most popular phonograph singers of the ’90s, Gaskin found himself on the wrong side of legal wrangling by the emerging record labels and got vindictively frozen out. Undeterred, he went into talent management and staged one last recording comeback in the mid-1910s, fittingly honoring his native land. The 32 selections here are restored to remarkable fidelity and are accompanied by an 80-page booklet with a definitive biography.

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