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

[David Lennick]

Make that "Tribute to Victor Herbert" (sorry about that). You gotta hear them fracture "Ah Sweet Mystery of Life".

dl

> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 21:50:42 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Florence Foster Jenkins (was Leona etc)
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> dl
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> > 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
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> > 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.
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