Richard Jose "Since Nellie Went Away" (Herbert H. Taylor song) countertenor 1905 contra-tenor rare скачать в хорошем качестве

Richard Jose "Since Nellie Went Away" (Herbert H. Taylor song) countertenor 1905 contra-tenor rare

Richard Jose sings "Since Nellie Went Away." SOME LYRICS: I am going to the city, lad, to see your sweetheart Nell and try to bring her back to home again. I shall tell her of the new-mown hay... Herbert H. Taylor wrote the song in 1905. Taylor's sentimental song "Since Nellie Went Away" enjoyed no success in 1905, but it inspired a Broadway show of the same title which opened on October 28, 1907. The show was written by Owen Davis and was produced by Al Woods. Richard Jose's last Victor session was on September 16, 1909, but nothing was issued from this. His last Victor records are from February 1906. During a 1907 interview with the San Francisco Examiner, Jose was asked about any secret to singing into a horn for recording purposes. "Secret!" exclaimed the countertenor. "It's the most secret thing in the world--for the singer. You're locked all alone with the band in a big bare room. Your back is to the musicians and your face to a bleak blank wall through which protrudes a solemn horn. A bell rings--one. That is to get ready, for the receiving instrument is so sensitive that if you moved your sleeve against your coat the sound would register. Somebody outside presses the button--two. The band starts the prelude, then you sing, turning neither to the right nor left, always looking and singing into that protruding horn. And you can't even let out a breath after your last note; you must close your lips on it and wait for the little whir within the horn to cease." His decline as a stage and recording artist stemmed from a serious injury. He suffered a blow to the head in 1906 (the date is unknown but it was presumably after the February 1906 Victor session). The convalescence was undoubtedly long and he possibly never recovered fully. According to a 1978 issue of The Pony Express, in 1906 a stage curtain fell on Jose with such force that stitches were required in his scalp. Therese Jose recalls that at this time the singer's "black hair turned perfectly white overnight." In 1905-06 he headed the Richard J. José Grand Concert Company, making stops in various cities to give concerts in auditoriums. The accident may have happened during this tour. Surviving concert programs indicate that the music for these concerts was provided by a group of English musicians called The Fuhrer String Quartet, led by Conrad W. Fuhrer. Wilkinson claims the accident happened on the Keith Circuit: "At the end of the third year while playing with Keefe & Keefe in a New York theatre, a heavy iron bound drop fell from the theatre, and hit his head, laying it open from his brow to the back of his head. Dick Jose battled death for many weeks at the hospital. This accident forced him to cancel a three-year contract to sing in Europe. On recovery his hair, which had been black, turned silver white." Wilkinson writes on page 33 of the Jose biography, "Mr. Jose had always cherished the idea of organizing his own company. As this now seemed to be the opportune time, his company was soon organized and on tour of the United States, playing the well-known English play, entitled 'Jane.'" Wilkinson is vague about when the company was formed though she suggests it was formed after the accident. That he performed in Jane is confirmed by no other sources. Throughout the 1910s Jose toured with a small company that presented a "pastoral play" titled "Silver Threads Among the Gold." Rice reports that Jose first produced the play in December 1909. Wilkinson states that Pierce Kingsley was its author. Around 1915, the K & R Film Company, named after owners Pierce Kingsley and R.R. Roberts, made a six-reel film with Jose titled "Silver Threads Among the Gold." In an unusual gimmick during the age of silent pictures, the singer stood in the wings of theatres that showed the film and sang along to match the motion of lips on the screen. Along with the title song, Jose sang "Every Night a Prayer Is Said" and "Where Is My Wandering Boy?" This was the company's first film. No copy of the movie is known to exist. Jose was appointed Assistant Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk of the California Legislature. In the 1930s he served as Deputy California Real Estate Commissioner under first Ray L. Riley and then Edwin T. Keiser. He sang occasionally in his retirement years, including on radio's Shell Hour, performing numbers that by this time would have been regarded by listeners as nostalgic tunes. Even at the turn of the century Jose sang many songs of an earlier generation. An irony of Jose recording "I Cannot Sing the Old Songs" for Victor in 1905 is that much of what he sang on stage and on records was old. He had helped popularize "With All Her Faults I Love Her Still" in 1888, almost twenty years before recording it on Victor 31171. Jose lived at 795 Sutter St. in San Francisco for decades until his death at age 79 on October 20, 1941. He is buried in Olivet Memorial Park, Colma, California.