UNPUBLISHED 1942 JOHN CHARLES THOMAS Percy Grainger SHALLOW BROWN Vinyl Press
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Description
A series of great Opera records from early 1903 Russian G&Ts to 1940 German War time pressings
The great American Baritone John Charles Thomas in one his last recordings, an unpublished 1942 Victor recordings
Australian Pianist/ Composer Percy Grainger’s solo arrangement of the shanty Shallow Brown
John Charles Thomas
Grainger: Shallow Brown
PCS-072014-1
1942, Victor
Carroll Hollister, Piano
John Charles Thomas, Baritone
We are currently offering a selection of mostly unissued classical vocal 78s on very limited custom pressings. The records are pressed from the original masters on modern vinyl (similar to an LP) and are all in mint condition. The sound is exceptional, as there is no groove wear or defects of any kind. They all have white labels with short notes on the label. Many of these selections have never been issued in any form.
Clandestine pressings from the 1960/70s these are all one sided, white label with handwritten notes. Talking to old time collectors there were two sources of these pressings:
a.) There was an employee at the RCA pressing plant who would run pressings of a master, mostly one copy made, and offer them to collectors.
b.) A group of collectors with access to the Victor vaults would run small pressing runs (5-10 copies)
Given that since the 1960s the Victor Vault went through several purges, and masters suffer from corrosion if improperly handled, these vinyl pressings are unique examples, where the master may not even exist any more.
1. Unpublished Selection - Never published on 78 or assigned a catalog number.
Vinyl One Sided 12" 78 rpm record
Condition:
MINT, faint warp does not affect music plays NOISELESS
A CHOICE COPY
John Charles Thomas (Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, September 6, 1891 - Apple Valley, California, December 13, 1960) was an American opera baritone known for his exuberant singing style and powerful voice. (The year of his birth is not quite certain. Some sources give it as 1889.)
He began by singing in Gilbert and Sullivan and musical comedies. His opera debut was in Aida as Amonasro in Washington DC in 1924. From 1925 he sang at La Monnaie in Brussels, London in 1929, Chicago and San Francisco in 1930, and finally the Metropolitan Opera, New York, where he stayed until 1943.
He was equally comfortable on both the operatic and the concert stages, though his advocacy of songs in his native English, particularly American songs, has left him less well-remembered than perhaps he should be. Nevertheless many songs written for him to sing have gone on to become standards, such as "The Lord's Prayer" by Albert Hay Malotte and "Home on the Range" by D. Guion.
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