Talk:Arnold Blackner
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Scarabocchio in topic Opera singer?
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Did you know nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 04:45, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
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Arnold Blackner as the cowboy tenor
- ... that Arnold Blackner (pictured) was said to be the first person to sing over 3,000 miles (4,800 km) on the telephone? Source: "The tenor attracted considerable attention when he sang over long distance telephone from the Jonathan club in Los Angeles to the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. It is claimed that this was the first time a song was ever successfully carried a distance of 3,000 miles by telephone wire." 1931 article in The Greeley Daily Tribune
- ALT1: ... that Arnold Blackner (pictured) gave up "bronco busting" to become a professional tenor? Source: "Mr. Blackner gave up bronco busting in Wyoming to attain his high place in the realm of music." 1931 article in The Greeley Daily Tribune
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Friedrich Oberschelp
Created by Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk). Self-nominated at 20:41, 27 May 2022 (UTC).
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The image is fine in the article - Commons:Graphic Lab may be able to help with an icon version. Joofjoof (talk) 21:25, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Opera singer?
editThere's no indication in the article that he ever sang an opera anywhere. "Opera singer" is not the correct term here.
(edited) I checked Katherine Jenkins
Katherine Maria Jenkins OBE (born 29 June 1980) is a Welsh singer. She is a mezzo-soprano and performs operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre, and hymns.
She is described as a 'singer' not an 'opera-singer', and her article is in the Musician category, and not in the Opera one, which seems right. The same should happen here. Scarabocchio (talk) 18:39, 13 June 2022 (UTC)