[ARSCLIST] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] Darlene Edwards (was: Rosemary Brown)

[Don Tait <Dontaitchicago@xxxxxxx>]

Yet another message in response to BH (forwarded below),

  Do you mean the cover of their first (Columbia) LP that had two left hands 
on the keyboard? Fantastic. I didn't get the point of that photo until someone 
pointed the bizarre thing out to me.

  Paul Weston's intentional fumbling of the piano parts should be remembered 
too. They were as funny as Jo Stafford's intentional off-pitch singing.

  'Twas great stuff, yes?

  Don Tait

And it's amazing what one can do with 2 left hands !  Ain't It Though ?

BH

>>> malcolm@xxxxxxxx 1/30/2007 12:44 PM >>>
Darlene Edwards is a pseudonym for Jo Stafford.
And Jonathan Edwards, her nimble-fingered pianist, is her husband Paul
Weston, the bandleader.
Mal

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Robert Hodge wrote:

>That's NOT Jo Stafford. It's Darlene Edwards. And she is very good !
>(Jo, that is.)
>BH
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>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'.
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>From: "Karl Miller" <karl.miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:41 AM
>Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Rosemary Brown
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>>Perhaps a most appropriate comparison. I am also reminded of Mrs.
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>>(no relation). A different friend knew her before she became famous.
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>>that story goes, this friend of mine was working for a Christian 
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>>She had been recording her singing at home and wanted to have it
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>>singing...well my friend said he had to crouch down behind a pew and
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>>his moulth to keep from laughing. As the story goes, Mrs. Miller
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>>people found her funny, but she didn't really care, she just felt
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>>doing popular music a favor. While Nancy Sinatra had the hit with
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>>Boots are Made for Walking," for me, it is Mrs. Miller's recording
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>> I should add, it was that same friend who supplied me with a group
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>>audition tapes...you haven't lived until you have heard Zorina
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>>sing "The Nightingale." I have always wondered if that was a put on
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>>Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The Florence Foster Jenkins of composers.
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