Worst Singer Ever

Posted by Random Good Stuff in Music on September 3, 2007 at 6:37 am


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Believe it or not, Florence Foster Jenkins managed, despite being famously awful, to sell out an entire concert at Carnegie Hall. She had many admirers (among them Enrico Caruso). This has to be heard to be believed. As a particular point of interest, after she recorded this song, she told the sound engineer that no second try was needed as it was perfect. See for yourself. Listen for yourself. Source


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17 comments to "Worst Singer Ever"

  1. kuratkull.com » Worst Singer Ever
    September 3rd, 2007 at 7:18 am

    [...] Original post by Random Good Stuff [...]

  2. fluff
    September 3rd, 2007 at 7:21 am

    ouchouchouchouch..... Why did you do that to us...

  3. Emil
    September 3rd, 2007 at 7:29 am

    its "indie" ;)

  4. anon
    September 3rd, 2007 at 7:29 am

    That took balls.

  5. Johannes
    September 3rd, 2007 at 7:34 am

    Sounds like my wife in the shower! ;-)

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    September 3rd, 2007 at 7:50 am

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  7. Ann
    September 3rd, 2007 at 7:50 am

    Ah! And who remembers Mrs. Miller, who appeared on the Johnny Carson show, and Jonathan and Darlene Edwards?

  8. Paul
    September 3rd, 2007 at 7:55 am

    oH, ThE hUmAnItY!

  9. kay
    September 3rd, 2007 at 8:02 am

    just in case anyone was interested, there's a play about her--it was on broadway in the fall/winter season of 2005. it's called souvenir, and it starred judy kaye (an amazing performer) in the Jenkins role.

    it flopped; however, i thought it was absolutely brilliant.

  10. Sultán
    September 3rd, 2007 at 8:11 am

    "she told the sound engineer that no second try was needed as it was perfect"

    I don't think a second take would have improved anything...

  11. Miss Curly
    September 3rd, 2007 at 9:04 am

    She sounds just like my neighbor's chickens!!! I can see a whole little chicken choir performing that!!

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  13. Dave
    September 3rd, 2007 at 11:03 am

    My canary wouldn't even sing along with that. And he's not very picky.

  14. Jamnocerous
    September 3rd, 2007 at 2:25 pm

    Sounds like Yoko Ono.

  15. earl
    September 3rd, 2007 at 3:20 pm

    Sounds like Hyacinth Bucket on the PBS program,"Keeping Up Appearances".

  16. Alex
    September 4th, 2007 at 12:10 am

    Sounds like the screaming frog.

  17. Don
    September 4th, 2007 at 8:10 am

    Wow! Since I never heard that work done by anyone else--------Maybe she's correct!!!!


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