1923 Brunswick Recording RUDOLPH VALENTINO 78rpm Record Kashmiri / El Relicario

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RUDOLPH VALENTINO 78 rpm Record - Recorded at Brunswick Studios, NY, 1923 - Distributed by the Celebrities Recording Co.

Side A "Kashmiri Love Song" / Side B "El Relicario" in Spanish 

Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) was an Italian-born American actor who starred in a number of well-known silent films, including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse  and The Son of the Shiek.  His premature death, which occurred at the age of 31, caused mass hysteria among his female fans and further propelled him into iconic status.  Though recorded in 1923, the songs were not released until a number of years after his death by a private concern.  They are the only two songs that Valentino ever recorded.

 While in New York during the spring of 1923, Rudolph Valentino paid a visit to the Brunswick studios and recorded two songs. El Relicario in Spanish and The Kashmiri Song in English. According to legend, Valentino recorded these songs for his new bride, Natacha Rambova since they had recently wed after a few very tense years of legal difficulties concerning Valentino's divorce from Jean Acker.  It was reported that after he heard his voice, he quipped "There goes my opera career!" It is difficult to imagine what his true speaking voice would have been based solely on the evidence of his two extant vocal recordings. The recordings were made using the acoustical process (singing into an acoustical recording horn). Because of this, the sound is far more primitive than the far superior technical process which came a mere 2 years later, the birth of the electrical process (microphone recording). Had Valentino chosen to try his hand again at making a recording during the electrical period, we would have had a truer voice picture from which to judge.

CONDITION:  There is a small chip on the edge as shown in pic #7.  Please view all pictures for a more definitive clarification of condition.

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