The Victor Light Opera Company (Olive Kline, Lucy Isabelle Marsh, Marguerite Dunlap, Lambert Murphy, Reinald Werrenrath and William F. Hooley) sing vocal gems from Lehar's 'The Man With Three Wives,' recorded by Victor at Camden on 26 March 1913.
Making recordings like this was difficult. For a vocalist, the recording horn was in many ways the precursor of a directional microphone so that the result varied depending on position. As soon as the singer moved off axis, there was a reduction in clarity and recorded volume. Victor was at that stage probably using two recording horns, but that was still of limited assistance. The result tended to be that when all six vocalists sang together the sound was a little backward, but solos could be very clear. That is essentially what we hear in this record, with Lambert Murphy's solos very well captured, but the overall result is really not too bad for the period. That is perhaps not surprising, as Victor had attempted on two previous occasions (17 February and 7 March 1913) to produce a satisfactory recording but without success despite having recorded eight takes. This was take 9, the first of the three recorded on 26 March.
I made this transfer from HMV 04566.
This is a rather uncommon vocal gems record, no doubt resulting from the fact that 'The Man With Three Wives' had quite a short run in America, opening at Weber & Fields' 44th Street Theatre on 23 January 1913 and closing on 8 March 1913 after only 52 performances.
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