Anita ODay - Anita Oday And Billy May Swing Rodgers And Hart '2013

Tracks list

Tracklist:

[2:07] 01. Anita ODay - Johnny One Note
[1:51] 02. Anita ODay - Little Girl Blue
[2:59] 03. Anita ODay - Falling in Love with Love
[4:18] 04. Anita ODay - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
[2:52] 05. Anita ODay - I Could Write a Book
[1:51] 06. Anita ODay - Have You Met Miss Jones?
[1:27] 07. Anita ODay - Lover
[2:23] 08. Anita ODay - It Never Entered My Mind
[3:10] 09. Anita ODay - Ten Cents a Dance
[2:15] 10. Anita ODay - Ive Got Five Dollars
[1:45] 11. Anita ODay - To Keep My Love Alive
[2:00] 12. Anita ODay - Spring Is Here

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ABOUT THE ALBUM

Anita ODay and Billy May had met before, on a glorious 1959 date swinging Cole
Porter, before they reconvened just 14 months later to do similar damage to the
songbook of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. While Porter songs such as Just One
of Those Things and I Get a Kick out of You translated well to the high-energy
treatment of Mays brassy arrangements and ODays spitfire performances, Rodgers &
Hart were a more difficult proposition. Broadway fans could understandably fear
that ODay and May would pulverize the waltzing balladry of Rodgers as well as
Harts intricate wordplay. They should have realized that, like the breakneck yet
technically perfect performances of bop originators Charlie Parker and Dizzy
Gillespie, ODay would miss no subtleties -- and would probably add some of her
own -- while she graced these energized versions of American pop classics. Anita
ODay and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart begins on a high note, with the
absolutely frenetic Johnny One Note, and finds May unsurprisingly goosing
several of Richard Rodgers wonderful waltzes, including a version of Lover that
provides the excited American equivalent of Peggy Lees bustling, exotic hit
version of the same song. Despite her technical gifts, Anita ODay still sings a
ballad very sweetly, as on Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, although she
predictably cant help scatting out the song. She also delivers just the perfect
amount of man-killer tartness on the obscure serial-killer tale To Keep My Love
Alive.
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1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
Total length: 00:28:52
Main artist: Anita ODay
Label: Black Sheep Music
Genre: Jazz
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo
(C) 2013 Entertain Me Europe LTD
(P) 2013 Entertain Me Europe LTD


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