Jayne Mansfield: Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me
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Jayne Mansfield: Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me | |||||
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Studio album by Jayne Mansfield | |||||
Released | 1964 | ||||
Recorded | 1964 | ||||
Genre | Novelty album | ||||
Length | 48:21 | ||||
Label | MGM (USA) | ||||
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Jayne Mansfield chronology | |||||
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Jayne Mansfield: 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, and others against a background of Tchaikovsky's music for the alibum.[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]