[78-L] O'Day what can the matter be? [was Doris Day]

[Don Cox]

On 13/09/2011, Julian Vein wrote:

> On 13/09/11 03:08, David Lennick wrote:
>> I seem to have been misinterpreted here..I was piling it on Doris
>> Day, not Clooney. Clooney was great no matter what she sang,
>> including Mambo Italiano and Botch-a-Me. Meanwhile, let's add Anita
>> O'Day to my list of singers who could do no wrong.
>> 
>> dl
>> 
> =================================== Took me years to make up my mind
> about O'Day. I like her work with Krupa, slightly less so with Kenton,
> where she seems to be getting formulaic. Don't care for her small
> group work--seems to me she needed the challenge of a big band.
> 
> Some of her performances are of the "Look at me, I'm hip" variety.
> 
I like her album with Cal Tjader best - which is small group.

Just finished reading her autobiography. Apart from the bad binding (the
pages all fell apart), this is well worth while if you can find a copy.

Regards
-- 
Don Cox
doncox at enterprise.net