Anita O'Day -- R.I.P.

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Anita O'Day (Anita Belle Colton), singer, born October 18 1919; died November 23 2006

This got missed during ILM's hiatus. Ms. O'Day was surely as good a jazz vocalist as there's ever been (sans uvula or not).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfcH8fAf7TM&mode=related&search=

In November 1996, when she was 76, she fell over a dog outside her trailer home in Palm Springs and broke her arm. "The Scotch did me in," she said.
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2013284.ece

Let's give her some lah-uh-uh-uv.

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

There was a thread on the pre-sandbox ILM.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry - didn't know the details of this switch-over, nor did my search reveal anything.

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

For now at least, if you google "IlX sandbox" and then do a search from there you can find some threads that were on the sandbox like this one about Anita O'Day. Of course you can add more here after checking out the thread...:

http://ilx.thehold.net/thread.php?msgid=10835

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Anybody seen this documentary that is showing for free tonight at the Library of Congress in DC?

Anita O'Day--The Life of a Jazz Singer (Elan Entertainment/UGO Productions, 2007). Dir Robbie Cavolina & Ian McCrudden. Producers Robbie Cavolina, Ian McCrudden, Melissa Davis. (90 min, color, DVD)

Legendary jazz vocalist Anita O'Day (Anita Colton) became popular singing with the Gene Krupa and Stan Kenton Big Bands before carving out a long career as a solo artist. In this new documentary, the so-called "Jezebel of Jazz" looks back over her life and tells the story of her struggles in the music world and triumphs over addiction, with rarely seen film performances and interviews with Annie Ross, Margaret Whiting, Bill Holman, Johnny Mandel and Gerald Wilson.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 13:48 (seventeen years ago)

Jazz Vocalists - CD/SD

For x-referencing purposes this is one of the few ilx links regarding jazzz vocalists

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 13:54 (seventeen years ago)

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