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Jayne Mansfield: Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky and Me

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Released
  
1964

Genre
  
Novelty album

Label
  
MGM (USA)

Release date
  
1964

Recorded
  
1964

Length
  
48:21

Artist
  
Jayne Mansfield

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Jayne Mansfield: Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me is a novelty album by actress, model and Playmate Jayne Mansfield in 1964. She recited Shakespeare's sonnets and poems by Marlowe, Browning, Wordsworth, Herrick, and others against a background of Tchaikovsky's music for the album. 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.

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."

Tracks

  1. "How Do I Love Thee" - 1:48
  2. "The Indian Serenade" - 1:01
  3. "Goodnight" - 0:40
  4. "You Say I Love Not" - 0:52
  5. "If This Be Love" - 0:49
  6. "The Lady's Yes" - 1:14
  7. "She Walks In Beauty" - 0:55
  8. "Cleopatra" - 1:50
  9. "Was This The Face" - 1:02
  10. "Whiteness, Or Chastity" - 0:47
  11. "Madrigal" - 0:20
  12. "Jenny Kiss'd Me" - 0:40
  13. "Verses Copied From The Window Of An Obscure Lodging House" - 1:09
  14. "The Enchantment" - 0:37
  15. "The Passionate Sheperd To His Love" - 1:01
  16. "Upon The Nipples Of Julia's Breast" - 0:33
  17. "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes" - 1:04
  18. "The Lovers" - 1:45
  19. "To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time" - 0:44
  20. "Inclusions" - 0:53
  21. "When You Are Old" - 0:51
  22. "Daffodils" - 0:58
  23. "Take, O, Take Those Lips Away" - 0:19
  24. "Mark How The Bashful Morn" - 0:55
  25. "Oh! Dear, What Can The Matter Be?" - 0:44
  26. "The Miller's Daughter" - 0:45
  27. "The Fire Of Love" - 0:43
  28. "The Constant Lover" - 0:42
  29. "Why Should A Foolish Marriage" - Vow 0:42
  30. "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" - 0:55
  31. "Love Me Little, Love Me Long" - 1:33

References

Jayne Mansfield: Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me Wikipedia
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