[78-L] Peggy Lee.

[David Lennick]

I've seen the term "song stylist" applied too often to singers who shouldn't 
have been allowed out of their bathrooms. It's a negative term in my opinion. 
Diana Crawl is a song stylist.

dl

Spats wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have no 'idea' what 'song stylist' means.
> 
> In my book, Peggy Lee was a great Jazz singer who could also, almost 
> alone among popular singers, take any song in any style and, while 
> remaining true to its original genre, somehow make it a Peggy Lee 
> song. Thus, for instance, she was just about the ONLY American singer 
> who could sing Bossa Nova properly!
> 
> If that's a song stylist, so be it! ;-)
> 
> Bing Crosby was another great JAZZ singer (unlike, say, Frank 
> Sinatra, who wasn't) who could also sing other styles of popular song.
> 
> Nelson Eddy was a fine, classically trained baritone who learned to 
> sing certain types of popular music.
> 
> Earl.
> 
> At 6:21 am -0700 21/3/2009, 78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com wrote:
>> Don't confuse female singers with female song stylists.  Vera Lynn was a
>> singer.  Peggy Lee was a song stylist, and a damned good one at that.  It's
>> the old apples and oranges thing again.  Could we compare Bing Crosby with
>> Nelson Eddy?  Two different genres.
>>
>> Bud.