@007pml Like Anita said: "I did it and that was that". She certainly was a woman who ever lived with regrets! I love her singing, I'm 66 now and have been a fan since I was 14. She has a VOICE that wraps around you, and holds you till the finish!
I remember, as a teenager back in the fifties, listening to singers like Anita O'Day, Chris Connrs, Sarah Vaugh etc. My high school friends, though I was weird. I was always into that style of music and still am these years later. Thank you Anita O'Day, for your wonderful, repertoire of music.
DenverTbone, we all owe you a big thank you for putting this on. She is just so great. Despite drugs she lived well and sang to the last. In her prime she was the absolute best jazz singer.
Hard to say anything critical about her thank God.
She is here just another wonderful musical instrument in the ensemble. What a great musician and technician and interpreter of lyrics. Oddly, or maybe not oddly, she was a bigger star in Japan than in America. Well, it shows their good taste.
Did your father-in-law really write this song? It is one of my favorites. Simply a great song! And, of course, no one better than Anita to interpret it - she was the best!
What a wonderful, velvety voice she had. Great interpretation and delivery. I just love this sound. In the album cover shown at the 3:34 mark, Anita O'Day Sings The Winners, the line up looks amazing. denvertbone, if you have the album, please could you post something from it? Thanks for sharing this!
The Lady had the somewhat unnerving habit of making everything she performed her own definitive version. That,to me, is the mark of a trancendent talent.
An American classic!
starstuff 1 month ago
Great job,denvertbone. If Anita had been able to stay away from drugs, she could have been on the top.
007pml 1 year ago
@007pml Like Anita said: "I did it and that was that". She certainly was a woman who ever lived with regrets! I love her singing, I'm 66 now and have been a fan since I was 14. She has a VOICE that wraps around you, and holds you till the finish!
450984 9 months ago 2
Saw The Lady at Jazz City (LA) in the mid 50s. This surely brings back "that old feeling" . Sigh.
iz4yt 1 year ago
mortygwhiz- This recording comes from Anita's 'I Get A Kick Out Of You' album from 1975.
denvertbone 1 year ago
I don't know how old this song is but I remember hearing back in the early 1960's. I loved it then when I was young and it still holds up today.
mortygwhiz 1 year ago
I remember, as a teenager back in the fifties, listening to singers like Anita O'Day, Chris Connrs, Sarah Vaugh etc. My high school friends, though I was weird. I was always into that style of music and still am these years later. Thank you Anita O'Day, for your wonderful, repertoire of music.
msladyluv129 1 year ago 3
The pianist is Ronnell Bright. See his bio on allmusic.com
denvertbone 1 year ago 3
Thank you everyone for your kind comments. I apologize for having to approve comments but It's necessary to keep spam away.
denvertbone 1 year ago
Who's at the piano?
ThatsMrMoronToYou 1 year ago
thanks vm Denver T This is just terrific-david
teazle2 1 year ago
Denver T many thanks for posting this from my favourite girl from those golden days-david
teazle2 1 year ago
Divine singer! And of course, most beautiful jazz...
plindinas 1 year ago 2
DenverTbone, we all owe you a big thank you for putting this on. She is just so great. Despite drugs she lived well and sang to the last. In her prime she was the absolute best jazz singer.
Hard to say anything critical about her thank God.
Getzwho 2 years ago
Thank you for uploading this Denver. What an instrument O'Day was. Nice piano too.
Getzwho 2 years ago
What a great great version. She was some super star Maybe her unpredictability cost a fair amount of credibility with some ? But wow, a star!!
Getzwho 2 years ago
Just great. Tragic all my great Jazz artists are at that big concert in the sky.
BUT what a girl What an interpreter and deliverer of superb musicality.
Getzwho 2 years ago
Man, that part from 2:09 to 2:23 gets me every time!! Great improv!
Ben10r 2 years ago
She is here just another wonderful musical instrument in the ensemble. What a great musician and technician and interpreter of lyrics. Oddly, or maybe not oddly, she was a bigger star in Japan than in America. Well, it shows their good taste.
defundthewar 2 years ago
Agreed, but in 40's and 50's she was great in USA agreed by plenty of top musicians including Kenton.
Getzwho 2 years ago
Her vibrato... always sends shivers down my spine!
For me, its devastating that nearly all my Jazz favourites have passed from this world. However this is one of the recordings keeps her memory alive.
pharmasteve 2 years ago
Thank you Anita for making this song my father n law wrote a beautiful rendition!
dubcgal 2 years ago
Did your father-in-law really write this song? It is one of my favorites. Simply a great song! And, of course, no one better than Anita to interpret it - she was the best!
TheJD3184 1 year ago
Fantastic!
magnnum01 2 years ago
What a wonderful, velvety voice she had. Great interpretation and delivery. I just love this sound. In the album cover shown at the 3:34 mark, Anita O'Day Sings The Winners, the line up looks amazing. denvertbone, if you have the album, please could you post something from it? Thanks for sharing this!
Cre8iveStar 2 years ago
Amen, and man this photo on this album....she looks absolutely beautiful!
Jazsngr 2 years ago
Lovely! Nice flute in the background.
deb6sbcglobal 2 years ago 2
Must have been reedman and Bud Shank..
Alino17 2 years ago
she do sounds great!!
martelli846 2 years ago
Sunny is blue because she realizes she can't touch Ms O'day. There are singers... and there is Anita.
Mrtriumphchopper 2 years ago 2
The Lady had the somewhat unnerving habit of making everything she performed her own definitive version. That,to me, is the mark of a trancendent talent.
Mrtriumphchopper 2 years ago 4
i could listen to this all day long!
wamee 2 years ago 4
Denvertbone, ¡thank you so much!
Regards.
6211945 2 years ago 6
Every thing Anita does is great.
swinginkatz 3 years ago 11
out standing she was great
busdriver357 3 years ago 3
the best version of a super song.
spellkiss 3 years ago 2