Anita O'Day - The Complete Recordings 1949-1950 (1997)

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Artist: Anita O'Day
Title: The Complete Recordings 1949-1950
Year Of Release: 1997
Label: Baldwin Street Music[ BJH-302]
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log)
Total Time: 66:21
Total Size: 252 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01. Them There Eyes (2:41)
02. Memories of You (3:01)
03. How Come? (2:44)
04. I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me (2:52)
05. Ain't Misbehavin' (2:27)
06. Penthouse Serenade (3:09)
07. Lonesome Road (1:47)
08. I Can't Give You Anything But Love (2:44)
09. Rosetta (2:14)
10. Jamaica Mon (2:28)
11. Don't Kick It Around (3:26)
12. So Much of Nothing to Do (3:14)
13. Poor Simple Simon (2:36)
14. Blues for Bojangles (3:13)
15. Your Eyes Are Bigger Than Your Heart (2:44)
16. Tennessee Waltz (3:02)
17. Yea Boo (2:20)
18. Something I Dreamed Last Night (3:13)
19. If I Could Steal You from Somebody Else (2:31)
20. You Took Advantage of Me (2:20)
21. Once There Lived a Fool (3:00)
22. I Apologize (3:05)
23. Black Moonlight (2:45)
24. Lovesick Blues (2:45)

This CD has all 15 formerly rare Anita O'Day recordings from 1949-50 that were formerly on a Tono LP, plus nine earlier selections. The latter consists of a long-lost four-song Capitol date (forgotten until the mid-1990s) that finds the singer in excellent form with a Los Angeles pickup group, as well as her five transcription performances from 1945 in which she is accompanied by the Nat King Cole Trio. The 1949-50 recordings find the singer doing her best on a wide variety of material that ranges from a few standards (such as "You Took Advantage of Me" and "I Apologize") to a variety of novelties (including her hillbillyish "Lovesick Blues" and the moderately humorous "Yea Boo"), "Tennessee Waltz," and a bunch of forgettable material. Anita O'Day fans will want this interesting set, as she does her very best throughout, but more casual listeners are advised to get her 1950s Verve albums first.~Scott Yanow

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