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

[David Lennick]

One sends me ten clams via Paypal! That includes shipping.

dl

> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 13:14:51 -0400
> From: ron at roscotron.com.invalid
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Florence Foster Jenkins (was Leona etc)
> 
> 
> How does one purchase one of your private CD's of FFJ?
> Ron Roscoe
> 
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> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2016 9:51 PM
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 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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