The worst of Florence Foster Jenkins
“The Glory (????) of the Human Voice” “A Faust Travesty” RCA Records. Ms. Jenkins was a wealthy benefactor to the arts in the first half of the twentieth century. She fancied herself an opera singer despite her complete lack of talent, pitch or range. Never-the-less she performed and recorded with the utmost earnesty for friends and family. She even went so far as to rent out Carnegie Hall and a full orchestra to perform with. How or why RCA got involved, I have no idea. Check her out on youtube. Someone wrote that David Bowie is a fan of this record.
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July 14th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
He is a fan. He finds her voice atrocious, and…actually has the album. He made an entire audience listen to her. 😀
Here’s the youtube link:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tdu9w6oI-BU
(Min: 5:40)
April 11th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
I have this album too!
The B side of the album has two people who wandered into an RCA recording studio and cut their own version of “Faust” – Jenny Williams and Thomas Burns … the latter sounded like Barney Rubble with a nagging backache.
September 16th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
I believe Florence’s accompanist was named Cosmé McMoon.
December 3rd, 2012 at 10:17 am
We has this album, too. It’s dreadful and hilarious at the same time.