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The worst of Florence Foster Jenkins

December 23rd, 2007 in Golden Throats, Incredibly Strange, Real People with Real Problems by lpcoverlover | 4 Comments

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“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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  1. #1 Sara says:
    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:

    (Min:  5:40)

  2. #2 xevo says:
    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.

  3. #3 Hal in Howell says:
    September 16th, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    I believe Florence’s accompanist was named Cosmé McMoon.

  4. #4 Peter says:
    December 3rd, 2012 at 10:17 am

    We has this album, too. It’s dreadful and hilarious at the same time.

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