John McCormack (tenor) Talking Machine Company during the 1910s and 1920s. He was Victor's most popular Red Seal recording artist after tenor Enrico Caruso. He also broadcast regularly by radio and performed in two sound films, Song o' My Heart, released in 1930, playing an Irish tenor, and as himself appearing in a party scene in "Wings of the Morning" (1937), the first British three-strip Technicolor feature. McCormack was one of the first artists to record the popular ballad "I Hear You Calling Me" written in 1908 by Harold Harford and Charles Marshall; he recorded it twice for Odeon starting in 1908 and
Girolamo Caruso Girolamo Caruso Girolamo Caruso (September 18, 1842, Alcamo, province of Trapani – January 2, 1923, Pisa), was an Italian agronomist and university teacher. He was born in Alcamo and graduated in Agriculture at the university of Naples in 1861. After spending some years in the army, first as a volunteer and later as commissioner of Military engineering, in 1864 he was appointed as teacher of agriculture at the agrarian provincial school of Corleone (Palermo), and its director until 1867, when he moved to Messina to teach at the Technical Institute. Nel 1862, aged only 20, Caruso started to deal with