[78-L] Sing, Baby, Sing

[Taylor Bowie]

Right ON,  Brother David...she can tickle the ivories OK but when Crawl 
opens her mouth to sing...YECH.  Dry,  flat,  tuneless...and those are some 
of her better vocal qualities.  Plus I don't think she always stays on 
pitch. And she kind of looks like Ann Coulter.

I have read the arguments and claims here and elsewhere that Frank Sinatra 
was not a "jazz" singer.  I don't buy that for a minute.  Perhaps my 
non-musician ears are fooling me but when I hear Frank with a big Billy May 
or Nelson Riddle or Sy Oliver band behind him,  he's singing jazz as far as 
I'm concerned.

Or to put it another way...which sounds more like jazz to you?  Sinatra with 
Riddle and Milt Bernhart on trombone doing I've Got You Under My Skin...or 
Mark Murphy's agonized and oh-so-"hip" struggle with A Night in Tunisia?

Hey,  this could turn into a good thread here!


Taylor (not always right but never shy!)




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Peggy Lee.


> 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.
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