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Has anyone else heard of Anna Russell?  Although she sings opera, she's best known for her musical comedy...err...criticisms...um....comical critiques.    Hilarious if you know anything about the history of music.  Just be aware that, as one critic said, "she puts as much effort into singing badly as most people put into singing well."  I've had one of her CDs for a couple years now.  To give you and idea, it starts out with ideas on practical banana marketing.  Talk about taking things to absurdity.  Well.  I just bought another of her CDs.  It's got a history of folk music, a serious talk about the french horn, stuff about bagpipes, even a bit about beat poetry.  The last track is "Hamletto: or Proscuttino", a very funny recap of Hamlet.

I'm still humming bits and pieces of "Jolly Old Sigmund Freud".