[78-L] John McCormack In Technicolor

[corningn at comcast.net]

mc cormack once forgot the lyrics early in his career and vowed never to let it happen again  therafter he always carried aloose leaf little black book in which he would place the lyrics of any song he might sing in that concert  one of these books is at boston college and i held it in my hands several years ago  nc  
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From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1 at hotmail.com> 
To: "78-L (2)" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:40:04 PM 
Subject: [78-L] John McCormack In Technicolor 


TCM recently showed "Wings Of the Morning (1937)" which is Britian's first technicolor full length movie. 
  
The highlight for me was seeing John McCormack sing two songs!! 
  
He was holding a small memo book with lyrics. I saw him do the same thing in an earlier film he did ("Song Of My Heart" I think). 
  
Does anybody know if McCormack had trouble memorizing? 
  
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