[78-L] It must have been the ..what!?

[David Lennick]

It's like the story I found once, or maybe it was one of those "today in 
history" items on the teletype, that said that Alexander Borodin died at a 
party on such and such a date. Not the most festive party, probably.

dl

On 9/1/2011 10:12 PM, marimbamoods at comcast.net wrote:
> should have stuck to original recipe . . .
>
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> dh
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78L"<78-L at 78online.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2011 7:40:52 PM
> Subject: [78-L] It must have been the ..what!?
>
>
>  From an old eBay listing:
>
> 1. 12" 78rpm original Melotone Recording Studio (NYC) disc featuring the
> greatest bad singer of all time: Florence Foster Jenkins. One side features
> Adele’s Laughing Song from Die Fledermaus, and the other side features Biassy
> with words by Pushkin, Melodie-Song: Count A. Pavlovich, Based on Prelude XVI –
> Bach. Both labels have a bit of damage on the bottom, but on one side you can
> still make out: Cosme McMoon: Piano. In 1938, Jenkins made her only recordings
> at the Melotone Studio which were pressed and sold privately. Her accompaniest,
> McMoon, was a flamboyant and eccentric character well known in NYs underground
> gay community. In 1944, Jenkins performed at Carnegie Hall and died a month
> later in a music store. Her last words were "It must've been the chicken."
>
> dl
>