[78-L] 78-L EDDIE FISHER

[JD]

> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:53:54 -0700
> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] EDDIE FISHER
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> Thanks for a great post,  Jack.  I really enjoy hearing stories  from
> musicians who were and are in the trenches,  so to speak.
>
> I inferred from your post that to your ears Doris Day has no jazz 
> influence
> in her singing.  I always thought she did esp. in those early movies and 
> the
> early 50s Columbia records.  Perhaps I'm just taken with her amazing way
> with a song.  I think I like her version of No Moon At All better than any
> other...I still think it has a strong jazz tinge to it.
>
> Taylor B

You might be right. Ask ten people their definition of jazz or especially 
jazz singing and you'll get  20 different opinions. Of all the pop singers, 
Day (and Peggy Lee), for me were, by far the best of them all from the 
standpoint of musicality. There can be no doubt, however of Lee's jazz 
roots. The problem I had with either of them is that they recorded (again, 
for me) a lot of inane material so I didn't always pay an awful lot of 
attention. But in Day's case, all one need do is listen to the record that 
made her, "Sentimental Journey" with Les Brown (1944) or her singing in 
"Love Me Or Leave Me." Not only was she supremely musical, she had real 
chops! And, from the trenches, an old friend/colleague of mine (trumpeter Ed 
Bailey) was on Brown's band with her her first time on the band and has 
nothing but the very nicest things to say about her, one of them being that 
she was one of the most honest people he ever met.  Unfortunately I never 
was fortunate enough to work with her. Probably just as well for her, I 
probably would have tried to be her next husband.
JD