[78-L] Franklyn McCormack

[Michael Biel]

David Lennick wrote:
> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>   
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Andrea Walsh" <petquality1 at gmail.com>
>>     
>>>
>> 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
>   
Of course there's the Nelson Eddy Columbia of Mylady Sleeps with a male 
chorus.  I finally got that record, and sure enough, the artist credit 
is something like  Nelson Eddy  and Male Chorus.   Hmmm, I wonder if 
this is a AFM strike recording. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com