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To: epicure who wrote (10611)	2/11/2007 1:38:27 PM
From: freelyhovering	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51714

While I was mending I did some YouTube grazing. I love YouTube. Here is some of the results of my searching: I was fooling around on You Tube and entered Anita O'Day. She died late last year after a remarkable career singing with top bands from a teenager until not long before her death at age 86. She was a very early feminist before there was the word. Very tough woman who used heroin late into her career. Below are some highlights from her amazing career: Her most famous public moment came at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958. Her performance of Sweet Georgia Brown and Tea for Two (like you have never heard it before or since) earned her the cover of Time magazine. Sweet Georgia Brown is just the best jazz singing performance of all time in my humble opinion even, as she admitted at the time, she was using heroin. Judge for yourself:(push the pause button till the little red thingy gets moving to the right so the tape doesn't keep stopping--just a few seconds is necessary and then hit the play button.) By the way, the crowd watching by the camera is wonderful. youtube.com And here is the next song at the same concert--Tea for Two. Incredible scat singing. youtube.com Here is a very early song, with her husband, Gene Kruba and his band--corny and showing some good leg: You can see how much her singing evolved. youtube.com And then, pray tell, here she is at 81, still singing with not much voice but, oh, she can still swing. anitaoday.com P.S. I'm not promoting heroin, just stating that it was part of the jazz world at the time of her performing. She did kick the habit sometime after Newport. What I admired about her is that she took no prisoners. <g>