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

[Robert Hodge <rjhodge@xxxxxxx>]

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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>Mark Durenberger
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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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>>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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