George J. Gaskin
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George J. Gaskin (1850s - 1920) was an American singer.
[edit] Career
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he became one of the most popular singers the United States in the 1890s and was nicknamed the "Silver Voiced Irish Tenor". His earliest known recordings done for the Edison North American Phonograph Company on June 2, 1891. Some sources report that Gaskin may have been only the second vocalist to make commercial records for Edison (the first may have been former slave George W. Johnson, recorded just one day earlier, on June 1). [1] Some of his songs included "After the Ball" (1893), "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (1897), "On the Banks of the Wabash" (1897), "My Old New Hampshire Home" (1898), and "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" (1900).
Some of his recordings that are known to still exist are: I Don’t Want to Play in Your Yard (1895), She May Have Seen Better Days (1896), Yankee Doodle (1897), It Don’t Seem Like the Same Old Smile (1897), The Best in the House is None Too Good For Reilly (1897), She Was Bred In Old Kentucky (1898), Uncle Sam, Why Are You Waiting? (1898), What is Home Without Love (1899), America (1899), While the Band is Playing Dixie (1901), When the Harvest Days Are Over (1902), I’m Wearing My Heart Away for You (1903), If A Girl Like You Loved A Boy Like Me (1905)
