Name George Gaskin | Role Tenor | |
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Died December 14, 1920, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States Similar People Dan W Quinn, Len Spencer, Vess Ossman, Harry Macdonough, J W Myers | ||
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George J. Gaskin (1863–1920) was an early American recording artist. He was born in Belfast, Ireland, but migrated to the United States in his youth, and became one of the most popular singers the United States in the 1890s.
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Gaskin's earliest known recordings were done for the Edison North American Phonograph Company on June 2, 1891. He may have been only the second vocalist to make commercial records for Edison (the first may have been African American whistler and singer George W. Johnson, recorded just one day earlier, on June 1).
He was nicknamed the "Silver-voiced Irish tenor", and specialized in sentimental Irish ballads and the popular songs of tin pan alley. He recorded prolifically in the 1890s, for the United States Phonograph Company, Columbia Phonograph Company, and Berliner Gramophone. Except for a single side for the American Pathé company in 1916, Gaskin's recording career ended in 1904 as the industry boomed and his talent for recording cylinders became less valuable. He died in New York on December 14, 1920.
Some of his songs included "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (1891), "Oh Promise Me" (1893), "After the Ball" (1893), "The Sidewalks of New York", (1895), "A Hot Time in the Old Town" (1896), "On the Banks of the Wabash" (1897), and "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" (1900).
Some of his recordings that are known to still exist are: