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Jailhouse Rock
“A little bit of LATIN, and a little bit of JAZZ” Ronnie Neuman at the Padded Cell. Rare Latin Jazz lp on Soma Records. The Padded Cell was a Minneapolis nightclub and restaurant known for it’s charburger and experimental jazz. This cover was featured in the “Incredibly Strange Music” books.
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.