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

[Dave Burnham]

Marion Talley, whom I know nothing about, found her way into Victor recording studios in the late '20s and, although I had no problem with her pitch, she had the irritating habit of making every held vowel sound like an "ah". It soon gets pretty weary!

db

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> On Jun 7, 2016, at 12:34 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote:
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> I should dig out Music at Mackenzie. (No I shouldn't!)
> 
> Anyway, there's another champion I'm looking to find, if anyone has a copy of this..a character named George Rolland, a Toronto alderman who fancied himself a composer, distributed a recording of himself and a female conspirator singing a duet called "If You Were My Bride". He sent it to broadcasters and musicians and institutions (not the one he should have been locked up in). Elmer Iseler had a copy and played it to students in the late 50s/early 60s. The CBC had one which has disappeared (Kurt, did you get it?). 7 or so minutes of unbelievable wrist-chewing torture.
> 
> dl
> 
>> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 12:30:25 -0400
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> From: burnhamd at rogers.com.invalid
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Florence Foster Jenkins (was Leona etc)
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>> 
>> If they were funny, how come my high school band which sounded exactly the same, wasn't?
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>> d
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Jun 7, 2016, at 12:24 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote:
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>>> They were funny. The Portsmouth Sinfonia wasn't. There was also a ghastly thing produced in Toronto in the 70s called Kazoophony.
>>> 
>>> dl
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>>>> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 12:02:28 -0400
>>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>>> From: banjobud at cfl.rr.com.invalid
>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Florence Foster Jenkins (was Leona etc)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Remember the Gugenheimer Saurkraut Band?
>>>> 
>>>> Bud
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPad
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>>>>> On Jun 7, 2016, at 10:40 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote:
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>>>>> 
>>>>> 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)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>> tinfo/78-l
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