Ethel Waters - Takin' A Chance On Love (1946)

My humble tribute to the Mother of modern Jazz singing. Often imitated, but never duplicated, the late, great Ethel Waters possessed tremendous talent, both as an influential popular singer and dramatic actress. In the mid 1930's her brilliant acting career began to outshine her recording legacy, but she had by then given musical birth to an entire generation of jazz chanteuses who would ride the genre straight to the stars.

This 1946 recording finds Ethel revisiting a standard that she introduced in the Broadway musical "Cabin In the Sky" six years earlier. This version is more mellow, less theatrical and simply more soulful than the original. Thank you Ethel Waters for sharing your light with the world.

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Music

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• Jazz
• Blues

[outerspaceoutpost]

I absoutely Love it! Wasn't that a picture of the actress that Played in the movie Pinky?

The young black woman that was a nurse that passed for being white. If so, I've seen that movie I love & never give up a chance to watch it. & that would mean I have had the blessing seeing Ms.Waters on film. Can someone please let me know if this is the case. Thanks! God bless & peace always.

[direfranchement]

@outerspaceoutpost

Yes, you're speaking of the late Jeanne Crain, a steller actress who starred in other mid-century hits including "Leave Her To Heaven" (1945) and "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949).

[outerspaceoutpost]

@direfranchement Thank you, thank you so much for blessing me w/ this information. I think I've have seen Leave her to Heaven once. Isn't that Starring Gene Terreny, Who played in the movie "Laura"? I've seen "A Letter To Three Wives at least 2 or more times, when I discovered it on tv. I grew up watching classic movies & always had a love for classic cinema. I am so glad to come to know more of Ms. Water's work after reading about her for yrs. growing up. God bless & peace always.

[direfranchement]

@outerspaceoutpost

Yes, Jeanne Crain played Gene Tierney's sister in "Leave Her to Heaven". I too love classic films almost as much as I love vintage jazz, and I collect them. "Laura" is one of my favorites.

[u879382]

una voz increible

[ivycompton]

I love Waters' dramatic, soulful, brilliantly inventive style. I love many of the singers in this genre, but in some ways Waters is untouchable. Thanks for posting this.

[Aware681]

I agree with direfranchement and ivycompton. I love this soulful more mellow jazz so much more. I crave more of her now. This is why I love technology.

[Littlewhitelephant]

She's Wonderful ! A Marvellous Voice !

[Babyhowdy233]

@ivycompton

I totally agree!

I would love to see someone do a movie on her, she was truly one of the greats!!

[outerspaceoutpost]

@direfranchement Thanks. Whenever we get our cable back, I'll keep a watch for it when it comes on either TCM or AMC, but if I remember the movie correctly Ms. Tierney plays a jealous murderess. Wonderful actress, but hard to watch her being so evil. Well my fav jazz artists are Ethel Waters of course, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Kay Starr, Duke Ellington & Count Basie. If there are any others they're skipping my mind at the moment. God Bless & Peace be with you.

[wavesnearmyhome]

It's great to listen to Ethel Waters again. I am so glad these videos are on

Utube.