Anita O'Day

Anita does Georgia Brown the best...soo freakin cool

If you like ODay, and jazz of that era, you might also like: Billie Holliday (a big influence on ODay), Ella Fitzgerald (particularly her Songbooks of the great American composers), Sarah Vaughn, Nancy Wilson, Dave Grusin, Dave Brubek, Pete Jolly, Antonio Carlos Jobim..newer artists in the same vein: Tom Lellis, Mia Nicholson, Dianne Reeves, Jim Tomlinson, Lea DeLaria..There are many others I could name, but these are some of my favorite jazz artists...

Oh yeah, don't forget the great instrumentalists: Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker....all giants of an earlier era and all contemporaries of O'Day.

@mark121959 maybe peggy lee, keely smith, nina simone and lena horne

Check out Tony Soprano at 1:09!

She sings a fanastic Tea for Two right after this. (See the Japanese post that has that on youtube ---dogatokosite.)

Great performance, great hat/outfit and all while being high on smack no less.

drummer78, I think she was more in control of her habit than others. In a book about Billie Holiday, Anita was noted saying that not only was she in awe of Billie's singing - she was also in awe of her heroin usage. Though not a big fan of Anita's, I think that this is one hell of a performance. Voice and stage presence seem in the least bit, contrived!

-- My, what big teeth you have!
-- The better to sing you with, my dear.

Gorgeous!