Word: mccormack
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...young Caruso replied, "my father sang for money." Anyone who believes that the big payday looming for Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti this week in Los Angeles is unprecedented ought to think again. The Three Tenors don't approach in earning power or popularity such predecessors as Caruso and John McCormack. Both earned millions while singing everything from Vesti la giubba to Come into the Garden, Maud at a time when the income tax was either nonexistent or in its infancy and when a dollar was worth 15 times what it is today. From its very beginnings, the profession of opera...
Under the management of impresario Charles L. Wagner, the elegant stylist McCormack grossed $5 million in performance fees from 1908 to 1920. McCormack was an Irish-born naturalized American, and in Ireland he went by the title of Count John McCormack, which was conferred on him in 1928 by Pope Pius XI. He was so popular that in 1938, the year of his teary farewell recital in London's Albert Hall, he was touted as a candidate for the Irish presidency...
Caruso and McCormack also benefited enormously from the nascent recording industry, which Caruso in particular legitimized as an artistic medium. His 1904 contract with the Victor Talking Machine Co. called for a royalty of 50 cents a record along with a hefty royalty advance. When asked by a friend how much he earned from recordings, Caruso told the man to guess. Ten thousand dollars was the estimate. "Right," said Caruso, "only I make that monthly...
...still," he told House Speaker John McCormack, who was trying to work out a time after the Kennedy funeral for Johnson to address a joint session of Congress. "I've got to keep the government going. I met with the Cabinet this afternoon. We've got the budget to resolve next week. But I don't want the family to feel that I am having any lack of respect, so I have a delicate wire to walk there...
...such an increased demand? "For a long time many people were not open to getting a vaccine--especially a flu vaccine--because they thought they could get the flu from it," suggests McCormack. "Finally, people are becoming more responsive to getting the vaccine...