[78-L] Doris Day

[Bud Black]

Leave us not forget Lee Wiley.

Bud

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On Sep 13, 2011, at 7:29 AM, 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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