[78-L] Doris Day

[Erwin Kluwer]

Personally I can't stand female popsingers...lot's of trouble with the men
too but somehow a bit less...

My favourite female singers are Adelina Patti, Rosa Ponselle, Frida leider
and Kirstin Flagstad.... others female singers stirring my soul are Molly
O'day (yes the female hank Williams),and the original Carter Family (Sara &
Maybelle) and Bessie Smith.

Erwin

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Harold Aherne <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> As long as everyone else is talking about the female singers they like, or
> don't, I suppose
> I can add my two centimes. There are few vocalists prior to about the late
> 30s that I
> really dislike, but those from later decades (which I sometimes listen to
> but don't collect)
> provoke more vested reactions from me one way or the other.
>
> Doris Day--mixed. I think she had vocal talent but often misused it to
> convey cuteness
> and pseudo-flirtatiousness, and her vocal stylings don't do anything for
> me.
>
> Helen Forrest--mostly great. She should've had a bigger solo career.
>
> Jo Stafford--no real objections. She sometimes bends the notes into a
> "whine", for lack
> of a better term, in her recordings (cf. the second "I'll be so ahh-lone
> without you" in
> "You Belong to Me") and I wasn't always fond of it, but I really don't mind
> it anymore.
> "Better Luck Next Time" from 1947 is especially good.
>
> Andrews Sisters--there's a 1932 RCA home-recording disc of them attempting
> "Sentimental
> Gentleman from Georgia" and listening to it reveals them as an unpolished
> Boswell Sisters
> copycat group. They always tended, IMO, to substitute perkiness for
> substance.
>
> Dinah Shore--her rather indefinite style works sometimes (as "You'd Be So
> Nice to Come
> Home To"), but more often it simply leaves no impression on me.
>
> Georgia Gibbs--the R&B and rock covers have given her a bad reputation, but
> she could
> certainly belt out a song. Had she been a bigger star earlier in her career
> she might be
> more fondly remembered.
>
> Margaret Whiting, Peggy Lee, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, and others are
> all fine
> by me.
>
> -HA
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