In Their Own Voices [Import]

Various Artists - Miscellaneous - Comedy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 10, 2000)
• Original Release Date: October 10, 2000
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Harmonia Mundi USA
• ASIN: B00004Z3VF
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #657,080 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Imperialism

2. Popular Election of Senators

3. The Tariff Question

4. Guaranty of Bank Deposits

5. The Labor Question

6. The Railroad Question

7. The Trust Question

8. Publication of Campaign Contribution

9. Swollen Fortunes

10. Mr. Tafts Borrowed Plumes

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Woodrow Wilson on the Third Party

2. Woodrow Wilson on the Trusts

3. Woodrow Wilson to the Farmers

4. Democratic Priciples

5. Woodrow Wilson on Labor

6. Wwodrow Wilson on the Tariff

7. The Progressive Covenant with the People

8. The Right of People to Rule

9. The Farmer and the Business Man

10. Social and Industrial Justice

See all 22 tracks on this disc

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Speeches of US Presidential Elections 1908-1912

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece from Marston (from a Wilsonian), December 12, 2002

By 

Robert R. Cullinane (Washington DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In Their Own Voices (Audio CD)

I first heard the voice of Woodrow Wilson in 1961, when none other than Edith Wilson put a record of "Address to the Farmers" and "Democratic Principles" on her gramophone. I was 13 years old at the time. The experience gave me goosebumps. The few times afterwards that I heard his voice (I bought some Victors from the "Record Hunter" in New York, long defunct) the President sounded like a different person, the voice high and weaker. Of course one had to contend with the frying bacon and pops characteristic of old 78s.

Not since that first time in the company of his widow have I heard what I take to be his authentic voice, and that was very recently on this remarkable restoration. Ward Marston has resurrected the man and made him speak. It sounds like he is in the room. My congratulations to him on this achievement, which is really a service to the public and for posterity.

I had heard a story that it was a hot day when Wilson made his recordings, and that he was confined to a closet during the process. He is supposed to have emerged wiping sweat from his brow and saying "Any man who runs for President nowadays ought to have his head examined."

It is interesting to me that on this recording, Wilson sounds completely relaxed and his voice is a little like Gary Cooper's. I suspect that all three candidates were told to speak slowly and distinctly and he seems to have taken the instruction to heart. Taft also enunciates at a stately pace, and TR seems excitable, sometimes hot-headed but livelier.

This is a brilliant accomplishment. I just wish that the speeches of Presidential candidates in our own day were as worthy of preserving as those on this album.