Magnificent. Magnificent. First record I ever bought. A 7inch EP in 1958. Then I bought Little Richard. Played both before football matches, to rev me up.
My Mum had this wonderful song on a 78., She played it to death and how I loved it although I couldn't understand it. Thank You so much for posting this memory.
How great to hear this recording. One of the first songs I heard, thanks to my father who loved all the great tenors of the time especially Gigli, Schmidt, Lanza, Wunderlich, Peerce, McCormick. Brings back great memories of the 40s when I was then a youngster.
This brings back the fondest of memories for me with my grandmother - now long gone - as we listened to a recording of Schmidt on the Australian Broadcasting Commission. That superb voice still has the ability - probably enhanced by its worn and crackly quality - to lift my heart and spirits.
My Dad used to listen to this 78 rpm record in the NCOs mess during WW2. Lucky I found another copy and now I can play it as a memory of my father. He told me how Joseph was killed by the Nazis. A great happy song with a beautiful flourish at the end.
Thank you ever so much for posting and sharing. His voice has thrilled me ever since I was a little girl. My mom had the 78rpm recording but over the years it broke. I tried listening to it on a 33 rpm album and it wasn't the same. Thank you for bringing back a wonderful memory of my childhood.
Old 78 rpm records crammed less sound information onto a big disk than high-fidelity vinyl disks so they reproduce more mechanical energy and inherently have a stronger "apparent" brilliance in the sound which comes off them.
People such as DARANGULAFILM, by collecting and posting material like this, give thousands of hours of pleasure to RUclips clients. 70-odd years ago, when I was a child, material such as this dominated radio (well,ABC anyway in Australia). It is difficult to express my gratitude that people post this sort of stuff. And I envy them the opportunity they grasp to pay homage to great artists such as Joseph Schmidt. Thanks Joseph and thanks DARANGULAFILM .
I see I have commented twice on this clip - first time seven years ago. Now, at 82 years, I reiterate my appreciation and gratitude to DARANGULAFILM, Goodness knows how many times I have enjoyed Joseph's joyous rendition.
They just had it inherently in them and "lived the blues" of harder times. Schmidt's contemporary, Richard Tauber survived the War and performed to recordings I believe into the early 1950's until a respiratory illness took him. Sometimes I wonder how they would have embraced and enjoyed the modern technologies.
Thank you for your kind comments. The disk was kindly loaned to me by its owner Frank Brockway, whose parents established, lived upon and worked an orchard in Roleystone, Western Australia, which they had named "Llanelly Orchard". The record had been kept in a box with others in a shed for many years.
I heard this is song a 20 year ago, but not knowed who is a singer. A few day ago I find who is singer - I am happy. Modern singers not so fine with same song
Like most if not all who have commented I believe that Joseph Schmidt was the greatest Tenor during the 1930's and 40's saddle he never survived the 2nd World War in Switzerland and continued to sing music written by Hans May who did survive the war to live in France afterward
Is this song available in English, do you know? My 82 y.o.husband has been singing this for days, and i have been searching for it on Google, You Tube etc, but did not know the name of it. Is it from a musical show? Tried looking up Student Prince, Merry Widow, White Horse Inn, and many others. I remember hearing it as a youngster but not sure in what context.
I was fortunate enough to find a disk which was not in bad condition, just a few marks in the surface here and there. The original German Parlophone recordings of the era seem to be of that little extra quality and craft. Prior to the implementation of a common standard, which is defined as RIAA ( Record Industry Of America or something similar ) each recording company had its own ideas on what frequences of sound needed to be "emphasised" during the recording process, then "de-emphasised" by the reproducer in playback in order to take the surface noise of the disk lower with it. There was a sort of engineer's map of how this should be done. It was called an equalisation curve. The RIAA curve is more strongly aggressive in de-emphasising the high;y pitched sounds than the older equalisation curves. Fortunately, there have been some wonderful folk over more recent years who have invented digital sound processing softwares which enable these original recordings to be played back as originally intended. Other equally wonderful folk have researched and published the legacy equalisation curves which were unique to particular record labels of the times and enable those reproductions to be faithful to the original. The penalty is often lesser suppression of high-frequency surface noise but the modern softwares also have ability to reduce a lot of that noise. Older 78 rpm records, due to cramming much less sound information onto the disk than the newer high-fidelity vinyl disks reproduce a lot more mechanical energy, hence the "apparent" more brilliance and energy in the playback. The audio processing was done in a software which became an industry standard in radio for a while, Syntrillium Software's "Cool Edit Pro". Their intellectual property was bought by Adobe and re-introduced as "Adobe Audition" in its suite of audio-visual editing softwares.
Thrilled to his voice since I was a child.Thanks so much! Wonderful!❤️
Glorious song and plenty of depth from the old 78. Poor Joseph Schmidt, let this lovely recording be a reminder to us all of the dangers of racism .
He was known as the pocket tenor as he was very short! This takes be right back to my childhood in the 40's. He had a wonderful voice.
Magnificent.
Magnificent.
First record I ever bought.
A 7inch EP in 1958.
Then I bought Little Richard.
Played both before football matches, to rev me up.
I thank you for the joy of simply hearing such a fine voice.This 84 year old Aussie loved it.
My Mum had this wonderful song on a 78., She played it to death and how I loved it although I couldn't understand it. Thank You so much for posting this memory.
Brilliant thanks so much. I used to listen to this on the original 78rpm as a young child in Johannesburg. Great music.
How great to hear this recording. One of the first songs I heard, thanks to my father who loved all the great tenors of the time especially Gigli, Schmidt, Lanza, Wunderlich, Peerce, McCormick. Brings back great memories of the 40s when I was then a youngster.
For this 75-year-old bloke, on the other side of the continent, THANKS. Straight into my favorites. And thank God for RUclips (and DARANGULAFILM .
This brings back the fondest of memories for me with my grandmother - now long gone - as we listened to a recording of Schmidt on the Australian Broadcasting Commission. That superb voice still has the ability - probably enhanced by its worn and crackly quality - to lift my heart and spirits.
My Dad used to listen to this 78 rpm record in the NCOs mess during WW2.
Lucky I found another copy and now I can play it as a memory of my father.
He told me how Joseph was killed by the Nazis.
A great happy song with a beautiful flourish at the end.
Apparently Joseph Schmidt got out into Switzerland but was interned there where he became ill and perished.
Parents had this 78 record way back in the 1950's and I grew up with this. Was always a favorite of mine!
Thank you ever so much for posting and sharing. His voice has thrilled me ever since I was a little girl. My mom had the 78rpm recording but over the years it broke. I tried listening to it on a 33 rpm album and it wasn't the same. Thank you for bringing back a wonderful memory of my childhood.
Old 78 rpm records crammed less sound information onto a big disk than high-fidelity vinyl disks so they reproduce more mechanical energy and inherently have a stronger "apparent" brilliance in the sound which comes off them.
Great to hear again. A favourite of mine.
very good quality...thank you....
This has been my favorite ever since I was a small child, and I never fail to feel uplifted when I hear it.
People such as DARANGULAFILM, by collecting and posting material like this, give thousands of hours of pleasure to RUclips clients. 70-odd years ago, when I was a child, material such as this dominated radio (well,ABC anyway in Australia). It is difficult to express my gratitude that people post this sort of stuff. And I envy them the opportunity they grasp to pay homage to great artists such as Joseph Schmidt. Thanks Joseph and thanks DARANGULAFILM .
Excellnt sound.Congratulation, and thanks for uploading/sharing.
love this good memories of listening to this with my dad
What a great voice.
I see I have commented twice on this clip - first time seven years ago. Now, at 82 years, I reiterate my appreciation and gratitude to DARANGULAFILM, Goodness knows how many times I have enjoyed Joseph's joyous rendition.
They just had it inherently in them and "lived the blues" of harder times. Schmidt's contemporary, Richard Tauber survived the War and performed to recordings I believe into the early 1950's until a respiratory illness took him. Sometimes I wonder how they would have embraced and enjoyed the modern technologies.
Thank you for your kind comments. The disk was kindly loaned to me by its owner Frank Brockway, whose parents established, lived upon and worked an orchard in Roleystone, Western Australia, which they had named "Llanelly Orchard". The record had been kept in a box with others in a shed for many years.
I used to use this as a 78rpm test record in the 60s .Love it .
Good quality, if you consider the age of the recording! One of the most beautiful songs!
German audio-engineering was about as good as it got in the world at the time.
I heard this is song a 20 year ago, but not knowed who is a singer. A few day ago I find who is singer - I am happy. Modern singers not so fine with same song
Like most if not all who have commented I believe that Joseph Schmidt was the greatest Tenor during the 1930's and 40's saddle he never survived the 2nd World War in Switzerland and continued to sing music written by Hans May who did survive the war to live in France afterward
Is this song available in English, do you know? My 82 y.o.husband has been singing this for days, and i have been searching for it on Google, You Tube etc, but did not know the name of it. Is it from a musical show? Tried looking up Student Prince, Merry Widow, White Horse Inn, and many others. I remember hearing it as a youngster but not sure in what context.
Excellent restoration!! How did you do it?
I was fortunate enough to find a disk which was not in bad condition, just a few marks in the surface here and there. The original German Parlophone recordings of the era seem to be of that little extra quality and craft. Prior to the implementation of a common standard, which is defined as RIAA ( Record Industry Of America or something similar ) each recording company had its own ideas on what frequences of sound needed to be "emphasised" during the recording process, then "de-emphasised" by the reproducer in playback in order to take the surface noise of the disk lower with it. There was a sort of engineer's map of how this should be done. It was called an equalisation curve. The RIAA curve is more strongly aggressive in de-emphasising the high;y pitched sounds than the older equalisation curves. Fortunately, there have been some wonderful folk over more recent years who have invented digital sound processing softwares which enable these original recordings to be played back as originally intended. Other equally wonderful folk have researched and published the legacy equalisation curves which were unique to particular record labels of the times and enable those reproductions to be faithful to the original. The penalty is often lesser suppression of high-frequency surface noise but the modern softwares also have ability to reduce a lot of that noise. Older 78 rpm records, due to cramming much less sound information onto the disk than the newer high-fidelity vinyl disks reproduce a lot more mechanical energy, hence the "apparent" more brilliance and energy in the playback. The audio processing was done in a software which became an industry standard in radio for a while, Syntrillium Software's "Cool Edit Pro". Their intellectual property was bought by Adobe and re-introduced as "Adobe Audition" in its suite of audio-visual editing softwares.
Yes I am one you commenting about Joseph Schmidt yes I was introduced to his talent by my father
Choice......tenors nowadays don't make the grade.