Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me
1964 studio album by Jayne Mansfield / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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, Herrick, and others against a background of Tchaikovsky's music for the album.[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]
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Released | 1964 | |||
Recorded | 1964 | |||
Genre | Novelty album | |||
Length | 48:21 | |||
Label | MGM (USA) | |||
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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]