Anita O'Day- When Sunny Gets Blue

[DISGUYROX]

I ,love that you included that pic of her doing Sweet Georgia Brown at Newport.

She looked wonderful and clean that day.

Yeah, I've always been a fan and, I'm also clean.

Thanks for this.

[007pml]

Thank you,Denvertbone. You do great work !!! Through goood bad times , she was great. I'm 76 now and her voice sounds perfect even more today. Nobody on the scene today begins to compare with Anita, June, Cris or Ella.

[007pml]

Thank you,Denvertbone. You do great work !!! Through goood bad times , she was great.

[007pml]

Thank you,Denvertbone. You do great work !!!

[starstuff]

An American classic!

[Mompopsbooks1]

I read her bio. Nice to hear music done well without electronic gobly-gook.

[levine023]

Oscar Peterson on the piano.

[pianoren]

a true master

[NoRosesForMe]

Love her so much,. I keep this in my favorites and listen to it almost every day. ANita was one of the top Queens and she is beyond words. Thank you for posting this. PEACE and blessings to you. ( I dont think Ive commented here before hehe! ) Just wanted to say somethin....wow......always amazing. xx thanks ♥

[NoRosesForMe]

L♥VE YA ANITA!!! Just staggering and makes me proud ot be a woman....with feelings and heart. Sweet Anita. Bless her. Thanks for posting! Peace ~"Jenny"

[ThePiscean60]

the picture @ 4:30 is from the Newport Jazz Festival (black hat w/white feathers)- thanks so much for this great post- p60

[WinstonsPapa]

In a word, ELECTRIFYING!!! RIP Doll!

[watcherof47]

for me the BEST interpretation of this song. Anita and her musicans makes here a great Job. Love it and here it since a long time every day. Anita you rules whereever you've been.

[watcherof47]

for me the BEST interpretation of this song. Anita and her musicans makes here a great Job. Love it and here it since a long time every day. Anita you rules whereever you've been. VK

[Caitlin232323]

This music is helping me survive High School. Everytime I'm overwhelmed, all I have to do is put this on and everything is right in the world.

[7106798]

old is gold...what a classic!

thanx4thepost!

[midnitehour1]

If i didn't know any better, i'd say it was Sarah.

[Deshard62]

Sorry, 007pml, but even on the drugs she was on top...she claims she was under the influence during her performance at Newport in '58- in my humble opinion one of the very best live vocal performances ever recorded.

Not condoning the drug use, but at the same time, it was what she went through and gladly she made it out but it's an inexorable part of who she was.

[WinstonsPapa]

Hell, she was and will always be knock your socks off over the top! Kudos for the post!

[007pml]

Great job,denvertbone. If Anita had been able to stay away from drugs, she could have been on the top.

[450984]

@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!

[danieljt84]

Wonderful and beautiful...that's Anita!

[IFeelHappy]

She sings this just like Sarah Vaughn not a fan .

[Crabsdonthum]

Best version of 'Sunny' I've heard. Love Anita's phrasing, especially on "like the wind that stirs the trees". Beautiful voice.

[iz4yt]

Saw The Lady at Jazz City (LA) in the mid 50s. This surely brings back "that old feeling" . Sigh.

[icecreamforcrowhurst]

That piano is too over-the-top for my tastes but Anita O'Day is fabulous as usual.

[VyvidVee]

does anybody know where to find the Joanie Sommers version?

[carseggie55]

I have just discovered this fine singer recently and I love her voice. As a singer myself can only aspire to be half as good

[bootryfly]

quality stuff

[denvertbone]

mortygwhiz- This recording comes from Anita's 'I Get A Kick Out Of You' album from 1975.

[mortygwhiz]

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.

[msladyluv129]

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.

[AlSternFlorida]

@msladyluv129 Don't forget Nancy Wilson

[denvertbone]

The pianist is Ronnell Bright. See his bio on allmusic.com

[denvertbone]

Thank you everyone for your kind comments. I apologize for having to approve comments but It's necessary to keep spam away.

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

Who's at the piano?

[TheClanMacGregor]

@ThatsMrMoronToYou, Most likely, Oscar Emanuel Peterson.

[JubalCalif]

Strictly from coolsville, daddy-o! Anita here gives us such a lovely version of one of my all time favorite songs. THANK YOU for posting it! :)

[teazle2]

thanks vm Denver T This is just terrific-david

[teazle2]

Denver T many thanks for posting this from my favourite girl from those golden days-david

[plindinas]

Divine singer! And of course, most beautiful jazz...

[saxman1962]

Probably one of the best female interpreter of popular song, as any female could be. Arguably up there with Ella and Billy.sadly passed away 2006,I ca'nt wait to get to heaven

[swinginkatz]

Beautiful

[Getzwho]

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.

[765micha]

beautiful!

[Getzwho]

Thank you for uploading this Denver. What an instrument O'Day was. Nice piano too.

[Getzwho]

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]

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.

[Ben10r]

Man, that part from 2:09 to 2:23 gets me every time!! Great improv!

[defundthewar]

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.

[Getzwho]

Agreed, but in 40's and 50's she was great in USA agreed by plenty of top musicians including Kenton.

[pharmasteve]

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.

[dubcgal]

Thank you Anita for making this song my father n law wrote a beautiful rendition!

[TheJD3184]

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!

[magnnum01]

Fantastic!

[Cre8iveStar]

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!

[Jazsngr]

Amen, and man this photo on this album....she looks absolutely beautiful!

[deb6sbcglobal]

Lovely! Nice flute in the background.

[Alino17]

Must have been reedman and Bud Shank..

[martelli846]

she do sounds great!!

[Mrtriumphchopper]

Sunny is blue because she realizes she can't touch Ms O'day. There are singers... and there is Anita.

[Mrtriumphchopper]

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.

[wamee]

i could listen to this all day long!

[6211945]

Denvertbone, ¡thank you so much!

Regards.

[swinginkatz]

Every thing Anita does is great.

[busdriver357]

out standing she was great

[spellkiss]

the best version of a super song.