Jayne Mansfield: Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me

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Jayne Mansfield: Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me
Jayne Mansfield: Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me cover
Studio album by Jayne Mansfield
Released 1964
Recorded 1964
Genre Novelty album
Length 48:21
Label MGM (USA)
Professional reviews
Jayne Mansfield chronology
Jayne Mansfield Busts up Las Vegas
(1962)
Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me
(1964)
I Wanna Be Loved By You
(posthumous, 2000)

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]

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  1. ^ a b Album review on Vinyl Cheese; Retrieved: 2007-12-11
  2. ^ a b c Welcome to Raymondo's Dance-o-rama. triad.rr.com Retrieved on 2006-12-13.
  3. ^ a b Lask, Thomas, "Poetry: Revised Editions", The New York Times, 30 August 1964, page X21

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