Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me
| Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me | ||||
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| Released | 1964 | |||
| Recorded | 1964 | |||
| Genre | Novelty album | |||
| Length | 48:21 | |||
| Label | MGM (USA) | |||
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Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me is a novelty album by actress, model and Playmate Jayne Mansfield in 1964.[1][2][3] She recited Shakespeare's sonnets and poems by Marlowe, Browning, Wordsworth, Herrick, and others against a background of Tchaikovsky's music for the album.[1][2] The album cover depicted a bouffant-coiffed Mansfield with lips pursed and breasts barely covered by a fur stole, posing between busts of the Russian composer and the Bard of Avon.[2]
The New York Times described the album as the actress reading "30-odd poems in a husky, urban, baby voice". The paper's reviewer went on to state that "Miss Mansfield is a lady with apparent charms, but reading poetry is not one of them."[3]
Tracks
[edit]- "How Do I Love Thee" - 1:48
- "The Indian Serenade" - 1:01
- "Goodnight" - 0:40
- "You Say I Love Not" - 0:52
- "If This Be Love" - 0:49
- "The Lady's Yes" - 1:14
- "She Walks In Beauty" - 0:55
- "Cleopatra" - 1:50
- "Was This The Face" - 1:02
- "Whiteness, Or Chastity" - 0:47
- "Madrigal" - 0:20
- "Jenny Kiss'd Me" - 0:40
- "Verses Copied From The Window Of An Obscure Lodging House" - 1:09
- "The Enchantment" - 0:37
- "The Passionate Sheperd To His Love" - 1:01
- "Upon The Nipples Of Julia's Breast" - 0:33
- "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes" - 1:04
- "The Lovers" - 1:45
- "To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time" - 0:44
- "Inclusions" - 0:53
- "When You Are Old" - 0:51
- "Daffodils" - 0:58
- "Take, O, Take Those Lips Away" - 0:19
- "Mark How The Bashful Morn" - 0:55
- "Oh! Dear, What Can The Matter Be?" - 0:44
- "The Miller's Daughter" - 0:45
- "The Fire Of Love" - 0:43
- "The Constant Lover" - 0:42
- "Why Should A Foolish Marriage" - Vow 0:42
- "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" - 0:55
- "Love Me Little, Love Me Long" - 1:33
References
[edit]- ^ a b Album review on Vinyl Cheese; Retrieved: 2007-12-11
- ^ a b c Welcome to Raymondo's Dance-o-rama. triad.rr.com Retrieved on 2006-12-13.
- ^ a b Lask, Thomas, "Poetry: Revised Editions", The New York Times, 30 August 1964, page X21
External links
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