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18. Okt. 2018 · 212K views 5 years ago. Anita O'Day - Sweet Georgia Brown & Tea for Two ........................................ Anita O'Day - Vocal.... ...more. Anita O'Day - Sweet Georgia Brown...
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- The Husky-Voiced Innovator
- The Perfect Voice For Jazz Bands
- A Picker of Fantastic Songs
- A Tumultuous Life
- Larger-Than-Life Personality
Anita O’Day was born Anita Belle Colton in Kansas City on October 18, 1919, the daughter of Irish parents. After joining a Chicago dance troupe as a teenager, she took up singing and adopted the stage name that made her famous. She later revealed that she took the surname O’Day because “in pig Latin that was slang for dough,” and money was somethin...
“She was a wild chick, all right, but how she could sing,” drummer Gene Krupa said of O’Day. After falling out with Benny Goodman, who didn’t like the way she improvised, O’Day joined up with Krupa’s band in 1941. Although she had a fractious personal relationship with trumpeter Roy Eldridge, they blended musically in a special way. Their duet “Let...
Anita O’Day was one of the most imaginative interpreters of the Great American Songbook. Her dreamy version of “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square”, written in 1939 by Manning Sherwin and Eric Maschwitz, features some slick orchestration by Buddy Bregman. Another treat, from O’Day’s 1956 Verve album Pick Yourself Up With Anita O’Day, is her inte...
Anita O’Day lived a tumultuous and painful life. She sometimes poured her melancholy into moving versions of mournful songs, including her version of the country music classic “Tennessee Waltz,” which was a hit for Decca Records when she cut it with Jack Pleis’s Orchestra in 1951. She also had a hit with “And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine” a year late...
One of Anita O’Day’s most popular tunes was “Tea for Two.” As well as performing Vincent Youmans and Irving Caesar’s 1924 classic during her Jazz on a Summer’s Day performance, she also recorded a fast-paced version for her brilliant live album Anita O’Day at Mister Kelly’s, recorded for Verve in Chicago in 1958. O’Day was recognized for her abilit...
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23. Nov. 2006 · Anita O'Day Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More... | AllMusic. A masterful scat singer and contender as the finest jazz vocalist ever, whose interpretations of standards uplifted even the most familiar songs. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1930s - 2000s. Born. October 18, 1919 in Chicago, IL. Died. November 23, 2006 in Los Angeles, CA.
231K subscribers. Subscribed. 595. 42K views 5 years ago. Exclusive live performance of this elusive American jazzsinger Anita O'Day and her trio at the North Sea Jazz Festival, The Hague,...
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Anita Belle Colton (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006), known professionally as Anita O'Day, was an American jazz singer and self proclaimed “song stylist” widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances that shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer". Refusing to pander to ...
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The Official Website of Anita O’Day. Anita O’Day’s unique sound and swinging rhythmic sense put her in the upper echelon of jazz singers, as skillful with ballads as with scatting and liberal interpretations of standard songs. Her career spanned the late swing and bebop eras, inspiring many singers who followed her, such as June Christy ...
Listen to The Best of Anita O'day: 40 Greatest Hits on Spotify. Anita O'Day · Compilation · 2013 · 40 songs.
