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Re: [ARSCLIST] Rosemary Brown
SO TRUE !!! Bring back WCLV Saturday Night !
BH
>>> dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx 1/30/2007 11:03 AM >>>
Her "Stayin' Alive" is a gem.
dl
Robert Hodge wrote:
> That's NOT Jo Stafford. It's Darlene Edwards. And she is very good !
> (Jo, that is.)
> BH
>
>>>> Mark4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 1/30/2007 9:52 AM >>>
> And of course there were the "famous" Jo Stafford off-key recordings.
> Someone once said you had to be very good to be that 'bad'.
>
> Mark Durenberger
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Miller" <karl.miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Rosemary Brown
>
>
>> Perhaps a most appropriate comparison. I am also reminded of Mrs.
> Miller
>> (no relation). A different friend knew her before she became
famous.
> As
>> that story goes, this friend of mine was working for a Christian
>> Publishing company. Mrs. Miller was friends with the head of the
> company.
>> She had been recording her singing at home and wanted to have it
> sound
>> more professional. So my friend's boss decided that Mrs. Miller
> should go
>> to a professional studio and hire some musicians, etc. My friend's
> boss
>> invited him one of the rehearsals, held in a local church. As she
> started
>> singing...well my friend said he had to crouch down behind a pew
and
> hold
>> his moulth to keep from laughing. As the story goes, Mrs. Miller
knew
>
>> people found her funny, but she didn't really care, she just felt
she
> was
>> doing popular music a favor. While Nancy Sinatra had the hit with
> "These
>> Boots are Made for Walking," for me, it is Mrs. Miller's recording
> that
>> I'll always remember.
>>
>> I should add, it was that same friend who supplied me with a group
> of
>> audition tapes...you haven't lived until you have heard Zorina
> Blessinger
>> sing "The Nightingale." I have always wondered if that was a put on
> or a
>> real person.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>> Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The Florence Foster Jenkins of composers.
>>
>> Steve Smolian
>>
>>
>
>