Wild microtonality - a question to Gene

Hi Gene,
my goodness, how did you find out about Florence Foster Jenkins? I've never heard of her. I'm out of words! :-D :-D

Petr

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Petr Paøízek <p.parizek@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Gene,
> my goodness, how did you find out about Florence Foster Jenkins? I've
never
> heard of her. I'm out of words! :-D :-D

She was pretty well-known back in the day:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <genewardsmith@...>
wrote:
> She was pretty well-known back in the day:

Yep, and there will always be similar, um, artists. My favorite,
bringing us to the current day, is Wing:

http://www.wingmusic.co.nz/

I mean, no one can sing "Dancing Queen" like her, and her album of
Elvis is to die for.

Cheers,
Jon

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Szanto" <jszanto@...> wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <genewardsmith@>
> wrote:
> > She was pretty well-known back in the day:
>
> Yep, and there will always be similar, um, artists. My favorite,
> bringing us to the current day, is Wing:
>
> http://www.wingmusic.co.nz/
>
> I mean, no one can sing "Dancing Queen" like her, and her album of
> Elvis is to die for.

Here's another web page for you bad singing fans:

http://www.lyricstage.com/infamous_singers.htm

It has Mrs. Miller's famous version of "Downtown", and William
Shatner's "Mr. Tamborine Man", as well as Wing.

> Yep, and there will always be similar, um, artists. My favorite,
> bringing us to the current day, is Wing:
>
> http://www.wingmusic.co.nz/
>
> I mean, no one can sing "Dancing Queen" like her, and her album of
> Elvis is to die for.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon

Totally. I notice her wikipedia page says she follows in
the footsteps of Jenkins.

-Carl

> It has Mrs. Miller's famous version of "Downtown", and William
> Shatner's "Mr. Tamborine Man", as well as Wing.

I gotta say I like Shatner.

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@...> wrote:
>
> > It has Mrs. Miller's famous version of "Downtown", and William
> > Shatner's "Mr. Tamborine Man", as well as Wing.
>
> I gotta say I like Shatner.

And by like, I mean, I have all his albums and have listened
to them surreptitiously.

-carl

Jon wrote:

Yep, and there will always be similar, um, artists. My favorite, bringing us to the current day, is Wing: http://www.wingmusic.co.nz

Unfortunately, whatever I was trying to reach some audio, I always got: "General network error. Check your network documentation".

Petr

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Petr Parízek <p.parizek@...> wrote:
> Unfortunately, whatever I was trying to reach some audio, I always
got: "General network error. Check your network documentation".

Sorry about that, Petr. It wasn't a problem for me, and I couldn't say
what is happening for you. If it was just a temporary problem, you
could try checking the sample audio page at:

http://www.wingtunes.com/public/samples.aspx

If that doesn't work, I'm not able to help, sorry.

Cheers,
Jon

Jon wrote:

"Sorry about that, Petr. It wasn't a problem for me, and I couldn't say what is happening for you."

Interesting. A while later, suddenly, it works okay without any error messages.

Petr