[78-L] Franklyn McCormack

[David Lennick]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andrea Walsh" <petquality1 at gmail.com>
>> It was on this list--- I was asking about it.
>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:16 AM, David Lennick 
>> <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
>>> I can't remember if it was on this list or elsewhere that someone was
>>> asking
>>> about Franklyn McCormack on LP. I just came across a ten-inch MGM, E283,
>>> titled
>>> "Melody Of Love (Why I Love You)", with Herbert Foote at the organ.
>>> Interestingly, this credits "Davies" as author of the poem, something the
>>> Wayne
>>> King Victor disc never did as I recall.
>>>
> McCormack (sp?) was, IIRC, on the announcing staff at WGN; this recitation 
> was
> a major hit (and a favourite of my late mother's!). I'm not surprised to see 
> that he
> re-did it with an organ...?!
> 
Everybody should do it with an organ..reminds me of one of the anonymous issues 
of Jan Peerce's Royale recordings. The label reads

O PROMISE ME

	Tenor
	With Organ

Mind out of gutter now. And Franklyn McCormack did a couple of other 
recitations (with organ) for MGM, in a special Christmas package complete with 
"To/From" on the cover.

dl