Corinne Morgan "Bonnie Sweet Bessie The Maid o' Dundee" (1904) James L. Gilbert & Arabella Root song скачать в хорошем качестве

Corinne Morgan "Bonnie Sweet Bessie The Maid o' Dundee" (1904) James L. Gilbert & Arabella Root song

Corinne Morgan "Bonnie Sweet Bessie, The Maid o' Dundee" Victor 2846 1904 Charles D'Almaine, violin Music by James L. Gilbert Lyrics by Arabella Root A highland laddie there lived o'er the way, A laddie both noble, and gallant and gay. Who loved a lassie as noble as he, A bonnie sweet lassie-the maid of Dundee. This lassie had lands, but the laddie had none. And yet to her it was all the same. For dearly she loved him, and said she knew This laddie, dear laddie was glide and true. Ere years or even months had fled, This laddie and lassie were happily wed; Nae better wifey e'er lived on the lea Than bonnie sweet Bessie, the inaid of Dundee! A happier hame nae mou ever had Than this that held twa hearts sac glad. And ne'er did Bessie have cause to rue Her wedding this laddie, sae gude and true. But sorrow came to her heart one day. And her dear darlin' was taken away, Then oh! how sad and lone was she, Boor bonnie sweet Bessie, the maid of Dundee. And when in the ground her darlin' they laid, Her heart then broke, and she fervently prayed, "O God in heaven, let me go,' too, And be wi' my laddie, sae gude and true!" Corinne Morgan was born Corinne Morgan Welsh in 1875 in Columbus, Ohio, to John and Rachael Welsh. Under her real name of Corinne Welsh she sang for churches and appeared in concerts. The contralto used only her first two given names for phonograph work. At that time, church and concert singers generally made up new names when making records--church singing could bring prestige to a singer but records did not. Her association with Frank C. Stanley in church singing (she knew him by his real name, William Stanley Grinsted) led to recordings. She worked for Edison from 1902 to 1905. She was among the first female singers to record regularly. In announcing the release of Standard 8427, featuring "The Lord's Prayer" and "Gloria" sung by a quartet featuring two male voices (Frank C. Stanley and George M. Stricklett) and two female (Morgan and one Miss Chapell, who Walsh said was Edith Chapman), the June 1903 issue of Edison Phonograph Monthly frankly admitted the difficulty of recording females: "It has always been a difficult matter to make successful Records of female voices, and after months of careful experimentation our Record Department has succeeded in getting perfect results in quartettes and duets. It is now at work on solos, and expects before long to list some very good songs by female voices." When the September 1903 issue of Edison Phonograph Monthly announced the October release of Morgan's debut as a solo artist, it again acknowledged that the female voice was difficult to record: "A fourth feature for October is the listing of one of the best Records ever made by a woman's voice. It is No. 8499, 'Happy Days,' and is sung by Miss Corrinne [sic] Morgan, with violin obligato...It is sung by Miss Morgan with entire absence of all objectionable features of Records made by women's voices..." She was "Helen Haydn" on six G & T discs and "Ethel Clarke" for two performances issued on the British Zonophone label. She made her first Victor recording on October 13, 1903 but this performance of "Down on the Farm" was unissued. The first Victor discs featuring Morgan were duets also featuring Stanley. Morgan's first solo recording on a Zon-o-phone disc, "Bonnie Sweet Bessie" (6033), was issued in February of 1904. Like other Zon-o-phones issued in early 1904, this was a nine-inch disc (by 1904 no more seven-inch Zon-o-phones were issued, and ten-inch Zon-o-phone discs were not issued until December of 1904). Zon-o-phone was a Victor subsidiary at that time. Morgan and Stanley were not paired on Zon-o-phone records. Instead, Morgan sang duets with James F. Harrison (a pseudonym for Frederick J. Wheeler). Walsh speculates this is because Harrison was paid one fee ($1400) for a year of exclusive service to Zon-o-phone, so Zon-o-phone executives viewed the Morgan-Harrison duet as cheaper than a Morgan-Stanley pairing. She stopped recording for Zon-o-phone around late 1905. Morgan and Stanley made Victor records after the final Edison date, sometimes as members of the Lyric Quartet. Stanley's widow believed that the Morgan and Stanley partnership ended during an Edison session. A recording director told Stanley to inform Morgan that she was singing flat. When Stanley repeated the words, she stormed into the director's office to ask if he had really said such a thing, and the director denied saying anything about flat notes, eager to avoid an altercation. Morgan accused Stanley of lying, and their association ended. She died on March 23, 1942.