Leona Anderson: Music to Suffer By
This album is awful. Intentionally. But the title is bloody brilliant.
Leona Anderson made bad singing a legitimate, if entirely unnecessary, form of entertainment. She reveled in the limitations and deficiencies in her singing voice and her publicity proudly proclaimed her as “the World’s Most Horrible Singer.”
Well, now a lot of hipsters do that…but it was actually interesting in 1957.
Here’s a sample track:
August 5, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Holy. Smokes. Is she saying rats in her room? She takes atonal to a whole new level. I love it.
August 13, 2011 at 1:15 am
Haha…yep, that’s what’s she’s saying! Atonal was “her thing.”