[78-L] Florence Foster Jenkins (was Leona etc)

[David Lennick]

I am reliably informed that even though BMG has remastered their Florence Foster Jenkins compilation and added the interview with Cosme McMoon (and retained that nauseating "Faust Parody"), they still haven't included Madame Jenkins' little-known fifth 78, "Valse Caressante" (Parts 1 & 2). I presume that they're still using the 1953 tape master which includes an edited and badly dubbed "Bell Song". So my private CD remains more complete. There's also the Naxos release, but that's not available in the US.

Ellis and Norma Jean Chadbourne ARE the perpetrators of the Faust Parody on RCA/BMG, under the names Thomas Burns and Jenny Williams. That thing was never funny. The Chadbournes' "Tribute to Sigmund Romberg" is guaranteed to clear a room in three minutes and that's what I've included on my cheap 'n' cheerful CD, shipped in a plain brown wrapper (or a white one if Dollarama is out of the brown envelopes).

dl

> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 20:41:40 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Leona Anderson, et al
> 
> 
> Who's Mlle St. Onge? And Stafford recorded in a wonky voice prior to her Red Ingle sides as "Tommy Dorsey family (Mountain Branch)", rendering "Friendship".
> 
> Florence Foster Jenkins remains the champ, and I've compiled a CD (privately) of all her recordings in the best transfers, plus 17 minutes of interviews with Cosme McMoon, and also included 6 execrable tracks by the unbelievable Ellis and Norma Jean Chadbourne. Send me money, I send you torture.
> 
> dl
> 
> 
> > Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 21:01:36 +0100
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > From: ampex354 at gmail.com.invalid
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Leona Anderson, et al
> > 
> > 
> > Or Jo Stafford also as 'Cinderella G Stump'....
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Malcolm <malcolm at 78data.com.invalid> wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Thanks but I was speaking of artists who actually recorded (on 78s for
> > > the main part) and gained some modicum of popularity. That kinda
> > > excludes most everyone performing on American Idol and it's ilk.
> > > Malcolm
> > >
> > > PS - Wing was originally from Hong Kong, but lives and recorded in New
> > > Zealand, I believe. M
> > >
> > > *******
> > >
> > > On 6/3/2016 7:24 AM, Jeffrey Lichtman wrote:
> > > > There's William Hung of American Idol infamy. Is he still performing?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 6/3/2016 9:35 AM, Malcolm wrote:
> > > >> Seems I answered my own question. There was, in somewhat chronological
> > > >> order,
> > > >>
> > > >> Florence Foster Jenkins
> > > >> Leona Anderson
> > > >> Mrs. (Mitch) Miller
> > > >> Jo Stafford (as Darlene Edwards)
> > > >> Mme. St. Onge (from Ontario, Canada)
> > > >>
> > > >> And they begat a recent (2005 et al) pop singer from New Zealand, Wing.
> > > >> Anyone else?
> > > >> Malcolm
> > > >>
> > > >> *******
> > > >>
> > >
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