Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me is a novelty album by actress, model and Playmate Jayne Mansfield in 1964.Album review on Vinyl Cheese; Retrieved: 2007-12-11Welcome to Raymondo's Dance-o-rama. triad.rr.com Retrieved on 2006-12-13.Lask, Thomas, "Poetry: Revised Editions", The New York Times, 30 August 1964, page X21 She recited Shakespeare's sonnets and poems by Christopher Marlowe, Robert Browning, William Wordsworth, Robert Herrick, and others against a background of Pyotr Ilyich 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 "How Do I Love Thee" - 1:48 "The Indian Serenade" - 1:01 "Goodnight" - 0:40 "You Say I Love Not" - 0:52 "If This Be Love" - 0:49 "The Lady's Yes" - 1:14 "She Walks In Beauty" - 0:55 "Cleopatra" - 1:50 "Was This The Face" - 1:02 "Whiteness, Or Chastity" - 0:47 "Madrigal" - 0:20 "Jenny Kiss'd Me" - 0:40 "Verses Copied From The Window Of An Obscure Lodging House" - 1:09 "The Enchantment" - 0:37 "The Passionate Sheperd To His Love" - 1:01 "Upon The Nipples Of Julia's Breast" - 0:33 "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes" - 1:04 "The Lovers" - 1:45 "To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time" - 0:44 "Inclusions" - 0:53 "When You Are Old" - 0:51 "Daffodils" - 0:58 "Take, O, Take Those Lips Away" - 0:19 "Mark How The Bashful Morn" - 0:55 "Oh! Dear, What Can The Matter Be?" - 0:44 "The Miller's Daughter" - 0:45 "The Fire Of Love" - 0:43 "The Constant Lover" - 0:42 "Why Should A Foolish Marriage" - Vow 0:42 "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" - 0:55 "Love Me Little, Love Me Long" - 1:33
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External links Review of the album