[78-L] Doris Day

[Erwin Kluwer]

Try some of the ladies I mentioned ..they most likely blow you away.. The
exception might be Patti (on first hearing) because of age and therefore
thinned out tone... But when it comes to the art of singing nobody ever had
that perfect equilibrium of sound, technique, interpretation and musicality
.. She was truly a miracle..... To me she belongs to the three greatest
singers that ever recorded (together with Mattia Battistini and Caruso)

Erwin





On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:

> 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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