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1. 12" 78rpm original Melotone Recording Studio (NYC) disc featuring the=20
greatest bad singer of all time: Florence Foster Jenkins. One side features=
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Adele=E2=80=99s Laughing Song from Die Fledermaus, and the other side featu=
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with words by Pushkin, Melodie-Song: Count A. Pavlovich, Based on Prelude X=
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Bach. Both labels have a bit of damage on the bottom, but on one side you c=
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still make out: Cosme McMoon: Piano. In 1938, Jenkins made her only recordi=
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at the Melotone Studio which were pressed and sold privately. Her accompani=
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McMoon, was a flamboyant and eccentric character well known in NYs undergro=
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gay community. In 1944, Jenkins performed at Carnegie Hall and died a month=
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later in a music store. Her last words were "It must've been the chicken."=
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