Eileen Farrell sings the blues

[liedersanger1]

What year was this please, and where and for whom was it filled? Thanks.

[ELBassodegrande]

Absolutely beautiful.

[7inga7]

What an amazing artist this is!

[tonespinner]

I love it, but technically it's not the blues. These are "blues flavored" popular songs.

BTW, This person is one of the very few opera singers that I have heard that can get the nuances and phrasing right for this kind of music.

[MrCafiero]

@tonespinner She sings "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues".

[tonespinner]

@MrCafiero Yes sir, you are correct, but "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues" is not a blues. Neither are "How Blue Can You Get", "The Birth of The Blues" or St. Louis Blues". These are "torchy" popular songs that many people mistake for the blues because of their subject matter. "The Blues" must have a strict 1-4-5 harmonic structue of all dominant seventh chords. Usually done in a twelve bar form.

[etaoinbshrdlu]

@tonespinner - The St. Louis Blues is not a blues song?! Tell it to Mr. W. C. Handy, white boy!

[tonespinner]

@etaoinbshrdlu You're right about that. SLB does follow 1-4-5.

my appologies

[MrCafiero]

@tonespinner Right, but she is singing that song about having the right to sing the blues...even if it is not the blues.

[zzausel]

@MrCafiero The pianoman doesn't play the blues, he not even swings, so how can she get in?

[kcsing1]

That's my old voice teacher, Eileen Farrell with the great Ted Taylor on piano, an Indiana University student at the time who played piano in our band, the Underground Express. Another IU Farrell student Janey Clewer, Terry Cockerham and I were the vocalists.

Kathy Chiavola

[thefixedG]

Extra ordinary artist - one of the biggest ever!

[primohomme]

AMAZING!

[paulprocopolis]

Just great - what a treasure this woman was!

[OldieMusicMan]

Her voice held up beautifully in her later years. She might as well be thirty years younger. She was a treasure.

[candide43201]

I love Miss Farrell.. she is one of the best..but this is a Standard in Blues style..not the blues( a very big difference)She was a great cross over artist..but I always considered her a great standard artist..She was not a jazz or Blues singer in the likes of Ella , Billy , or CoCo Taylor..but this bitch is fierce

[BabyDillGerkin]

hey there -- fyi, it's Koko (not CoCo) and sadly she just passed on

also, it's Billie (not Billy)

[carlissima28]

fab!