[78-L] Doris Day

[Taylor Bowie]

I don't know opera singers very well,  but the first one I saw "live" was 
Tebaldi.  I was 8 years old and visiting Rome with my family.  It was a 
great evening!

My fave women singers would include Ethel Waters, Lee Wiley, Sarah Vaughn, 
Margaret Whiting,  Carol Sloane, Carlotta Dale,  Helen Forrest,  Lizzie 
Miles and Ruth Etting.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erwin Kluwer" <ekluwer at gmail.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 5:31 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Doris Day


> 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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