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

[Ron]

David;
Marion Talley was a pretty well-known opera singer in the teens and twenties
and made one of the early Vitaphone sound on disc shorts singing "Cara Nome"
from Rigoletto around 1926-27.  I never noticed the "ah" thingy.  This can
be found on some of the Vitaphone shorts reissues on DVD.

On the only Vitaphone disc I own Benjamino Gigli sings a duet from "Lucia di
Lammermoor" with Marion Talley.  So she had to be pretty good!  [I think the
film portion of this short is lost.]

Ron Roscoe

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


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:
> 
> 
> 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)
>> 
>> 
>> If they were funny, how come my high school band which sounded exactly
the same, wasn't?
>> 
>> d
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jun 7, 2016, at 12:24 PM, David Lennick
<dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> They were funny. The Portsmouth Sinfonia wasn't. There was also a
ghastly thing produced in Toronto in the 70s called Kazoophony.
>>> 
>>> dl
>>> 
>>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 7, 2016, at 10:40 AM, David Lennick
<dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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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