Anita O'Day - Let's Fall in Love (live in Sweden '63)

[ThatHistoryGuy]

God, so classy.



[comingout05]

Absolutely beautiful. Haven't heard Ms. O'Day in a while, just beautiful.

[janner9901]

She is just uncomparable, but the same can be said about Ella and Billie. Each were unique in their own way.

[jazzdjoe]

Excellent!!



[stevenrmc]

My personal thank to whoever posted this video. The quality [both visual and vocal ] are superb. I always enjoy Anita O'Day. . . the musically playful way in which she approaches a song is such an experience.

[SharodHolla]

I love Anita O'Day she has an impressive voice and nice scat qualities

[jmeintn]

WOW!

[RAMLIA1]

♥♥♥

[mk181818]

Absolutely astonishing sense of syncopated rhythm of Jazz...

[kangfesher]

Gorgeous!!!....no more to say.

[meomy0101]

Ella sux balls. Anita is next level.

[mhstpt]

@meomy0101 Umm - I truly love listening to Anita O'Day. how does that lead you to think less of Ella Fitzgerald, however? Please do yourself a favor and listen to more music. Every singer has much to offer. Ella is timeless and without peer. She isn't better, but rather different. There is room for many different styles and certainly room for both Anita and Ella. Anita would agree!

[Crabsdonthum]

Okay Anita I'm all in and totally in love with you :)

[mmvinny9]

ANITA! O YEA

[orqsilva]

This is the best version of this rather trite standard I have heard. The way she plays with the time and phrasing is remarkable or rather unequaled. This is all very spontaneous as well. Ella had a better sound and could scat better, but could not so thoroughly penetrate and "own" an define a song like Anita.

[TheDarmardar]

she's my favourite singer, and one of my favourite musicians.

[963821]

What fun!

[SpeedKingRick]

Impossible to have better or best in Jazz, no right or wrong. Only each to their favourites but she is mine by a long shot!

[watcherof47]

@nandesneto Yes, and yes!! I'm conform with your opinion. Maybe the way they both lived was the way to do this great stuff for us. Nobody sings Yesterdays with more feeling like Billie Holiday. And nobody reached Anita's Sweet Georgia Brown. Of course Ella was a great singer but for me she is to much technical.

[chenarch]

She's a total original. Anita is way out there. She's in control of every song from the first downbeat. She's not imitating anyone.

[hairnsap]

This lady is the beat.She lets the band know where it should be !

[bayridged]

The jazz singer supreme;she has it all:

impeccable phrasing,tone,rhythm,,showmans­hip,stage comfort,scatting ability,looks, warmth and even a faux yawn at 0:48!

[plemochoe]

I think Billie Holiday was loved by the musicians...and then she became a legend.

Sarah Vaughan, before thirty, had better pipes than anyone, but she damaged them and also lost her emotional freshness. Ella became the greatest technical singer, and also felt great emotion, although shy.

Anita O'Day lived like Billie and swung like Ella. She feels the band better than anybody. When Sassy and Ella went in for scat singing, the band gave them room; but Anita fits in like a clarinet.

[GrilloNoGRAZIE]

great!!

[cjm608]

BEAUTIFUL

[snatchhog]

if u want to compare,this lady is HARD to beat....but thats just my EXPERT opinion

[damone77]

@nandesneto no one was better than Ella LOL! I adore, and I mean adore Anita and she had her multi-faceted way of singing. Whenever I'm blue I put on her concert at the Toyoko radio station. I just think it's ridiculous to say that Anita was"Way better" than Ella. These two woman were totally different in their approach to a song...anyway

[unclebobunclebob]

@nandesneto I like Anita better than Billie...and I LOVE Billie.

To me it's Anita, Billie, Ella, in that order, but I'd take any of them.

[defundthewar]

I wouldn't use terms like "better" or "worse" in the field of jazz singing; it is too abstract an area, too subjective. I think there is room for everybody, which is good.

[nandesneto]

Absolutely. There is room for everybody, but Billie, for instance...she changed music...she changed the way women sing. She had influence all female singers.

[jazzsoulsista]

@nandesneto

The great jazz vocalist relationship's relative to how they sound, are often cyclical. For instance listen to Ella and then listen to Connie Boswell, she was Ella's main influence.

All the ladies of jazz have unique talents and some shine in areas were others do not. Anita certainly had real gumption and flair which certainly showed in her improv and melodic. Ella's improv dexterity was number one hands down. But in the end it does not matter as they are both great

[djjjamin]

@nandesneto well if u wanna go there louis armstrong strongly influenced every jazz singer. Before him singers didn't usually swing or play with the lyrics at all. But yea ur right about billie holiday, but what i like about anita o' day is not only her amazing voice but also how she always knows whats going on in the band in back of her and she interacts a lot with the instrumentalists. it doesn't sound like theres a jazz singer, her music just sounds like jazz. In my opinion of course haha

[Jadedjago]

@defundthewar all of her experience comes through when it comes to selling a song. a true master.

[defundthewar]

I'm not saying she's imitating Ella Fitzgerald, but Ella's influence on Anita shows in certain parts. Well... if you are to be influenced by somebody, why not the best?

[jburidan]

The point here is that Anita never sings the same song equal, there are two other versions in youtube, and are quite different from this one, so the "influence" thing is very relative.

[defundthewar]

I didn't mean across the board, I just meant in this particular cover there seems to be the influence of Ella hovering. Not that I have a problem with that!

[evlog]

Ella being the "best" is certainly arguable. I personally prefer O'day or Holiday.

[defundthewar]

I did say "best' and maybe I shouldn't have. I should say that if you're going to be influenced by somebody, it should be somebody great, somebody who makes a substantial contribution to music.

[phineuss]

@defundthewar  nope. nice try though.

[defundthewar]

@phineuss I have no idea what that means, but in any event the important thing is that everyone here seems to be well acquainted with Anita, Ella, Sarah, Billie, and likely Carmen McRae, Peggy Lee and many lesser known names, which is our gain. The kids today, for the most part, know nothing of these ladies, not even their names, because anything that ever happened before they (the kids) were born is not worth knowing about... a great loss.

[freitasdeoliveira]

@defundthewar Anita was the first woman to be signed by Verve before Holdiay and Fitzgerald she was around long before

[kangfesher]

@defundthewar hmmmm...I don't hear it at all. Ella is light, clear, sweet and bubbly....Anita is...I don't know...darker, more sensual, In my opinion, anyhow.

[defundthewar]

@kangfesher I didn't mean voice, I just meant style. And not all the time, just this song, this time.

[mozart722]

Thanks a lot for posting this!!!

[sogofo]

0:53 amazing

[local802blues]

I can never get enough of this lady

[SergioVellatti]

Wow! This was awesome! Thank you for another great upload!

[damone77]

Music by the wonderful Harold Arlen!!!! Thanks for the posting:)