John McCormack

I mean, he just had never experienced anything like it.

Now remember, this is a guy from the wrong side of the tracks in an Irish Catholic community, and this Jewish performer comes from Broadway with a whole different approach, and he loved that as much as he loved John McCormack's Irish ballads.

And when he started, you know, and when he heard Armstrong, that was, like, unbelievable to him.

So he was open to everything, and, and he assimilated it.

So it began to kind of fade in that sense.

But real new competition arrived with the opening of the Savoy it opened on Christmas Eve a funny day but what they opened with was a concert by John McCormack

the first film

and Sonny Millay sang with him at that by the way the first film shown there which was called Flying Down to Rio It played to a full house of 1,239 people.

He earned prominence as an influential Swiss educator, conductor, and composer who spearheaded the modern repertoire for classical brass bands and wind orchestras.

John McCormack passed away in 1945 at the age of 61 from pneumonia.

He was an internationally celebrated Irish lyric tenor.

Constance Moore passed away in 2005 at the age of 84 from heart failure.