Podcasts

John with Bing Crosby on his NBC radio show, 1937.

John McCormack made probably hundreds of radio broadcasts between 1925 and 1942 in the United States and in the UK. Unfortunately, very few of these broadcasts were recorded or saved for posterity. The following extract is from a broadcast John made with Bing Crosby in Hollywood in 1937.

Recording of John’s radio broadcast with Bing Crosby

Selection of radio programmes on McCormack

Here you will find a collection of programmes by a number of McCormack aficionados who discuss his life and artistic leagacy. We hope to grow this section over time.

Jim Ryan wrote and presented a 4-part series of programmes on John McCormack which he has kindly made available to us.

Gordon Ledbetter, an award-winning broadcaster, author of two biographies on John McCormack and presenter and writer of the critically acclaimed documentary ‘The People’s Tenor’ delivered a talk to the Royal Irish Academy of Music in 2017.

John McCormack Society

8 Upper Pembroke Street,

Dublin 2,

Ireland.

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