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Anita O'Day Sings The Winners Side one arranged by Marty Paich Side two arranged by Russ Garcia Verve V-8485 1961
From the back cover: Anita's tribute to the poll winners, an album idea suggested by Norman Granz, who supervised production of this set, represents further irrepressible proof that Miss O'Day's once dormant career continues to exfoliate and that at her present best she is, as Russ Wilson of the Oakland Tribune has noted, "singing better than she ever has." Her albums for Verve have also succeeded, for the most part, in projecting at least some of the burningly exuberant impact Anita has on an audience in a club. She's one of the very few singers left who really improvises from tune to tune and night to night, and watching as well as hearing her hurl through the challenge of a set can be exhilarating as watching and hearing a first-rate horn man."Jazz to me," says Anita, "is singing what is happening now. When I sing Body and Soul, for example, it's my conception after having heard and lived the song for a long time and then improvising on the basis of what I know of it and what I feel about it right now." In this round of toasts, Anita first establishes the melody and then goes for herself in the second chorus. Anita was unusually pleased with both arrangers, Marty Paich on the first side and Russ Garcia on the second; the co-ordinator, Barney Kessel; and she even insists on accolading the engineer whom she knows only as Mr. Bones (Bones Howe-ed.). She is, in short, quite happy about the date, a situation that is not always the case with the outspoken Anita who is as hotly spontaneous in her conversation as in her singing.
Take The "A" Train for many years was Duke's theme and here is made into a huskily rolling but relaxed express. Tenderly, long identified with Oscar Peterson, indicates Anita's capacity for romanticism. She scats with zestful confidence through the Jimmy Giuffre Four Brothers that helped strongly to identify that Herman Herd. Stan Getz's lyrical solo on Ralph Burns' Early Autumn for Woody Herman first established Stan's reputation. Anita's version is also lyrical and also wholly jazz in its phrasing, beat and even the nature of her sound. Night in Tunisia, a vintage part of Dizzy Gillespie's repertory, was once recorded by Sarah Vaughan as a slow ballad, Interlude. Anita uses a faster tempo more in context with Dizzy's usual handling of the tune. The special lyrics that Anita sings to Four, the song Miles Davis has recorded, were written by Bill Loughborough, best known for the toned drums he invented, the boobams.
Mary Lou Williams' What's Your Story, Morning Glory, was one of the most attractive originals in the Jimmie Lunceford library, and it's an enigma to me why so few stimulated in large part by the subtly multi-linear use Gerry Mulligan put it to in his quartet. Sing, Sing, Sing is to me much more palatable in this version than in its original showboat exist. ence. It turns into a tour-de-scat for Anita that few other contemporary vocalists could sustain. Body and Soul, Coleman Hawkins' psychic annuity, becomes as instrumentalized a vocal as I expect you can find any. where, including pure scat. The Peanut Vendor that helped sell an early version of the Kenton band is treated with swinging wit by Anita along with more resilient scat singing. Frenesi, the song Artie Shaw brought back from Mexico to kick off another stage of his career, has rarely been so warmly revived. But then heat is the element Anita brings to everything she does. She's one of the last really "hot" jazz singers. – NAT HENTOFF
Duke Ellington - Take the "A" Train
Oscar Peterson - Tenderly Dizzy Gillepsie - Interlude (Night In Trunisia) Miles Davis - Four Stan Getz - Early Autumn Woody Herman - Four Brothers Gene Krupa & Benny Goodman - Sing, Sing, Sing Gerry Mulligan - My Funny Valentine Artie Shaw - Frenesi Coleman Hawkings - Body And Soul Jimmie Lunceford - What's Your Story, Morning Glory Stan Kenton - Peanut Vendor
The Most Amazing Record Series Ever Released To The Public How To Develop E.S.P. Extra Sensory Perception – Your Sixth Sense By Harold Sherman (noted authority on ESP) Knight Education, Inc. KEI-HS 1
From the back cover: HAROLD SHERMAN, world famous authority on the human mind, author, playwright, TV and radio commentator, first electrified the scientific world with the amazing results of his five months telepathic communications with Sir Hubert Wilkins, famed arctic explorer, while Wilkins was searching for flyers who were lost near the North Pole.
Carefully checked under scientifically observed conditions by Dr. Gardner Murphy, then head of the Parapsychology Department of Columbia University – Mr. Sherman's extra sensory perceptions were found to be over 70% correct. The account of these long distance experiments with the documentary evidence is contained in his book, "Thoughts Through Space."
Mr. Sherman has devoted much of his life to the study of extra sensory perception and is probably the most outstanding authority on the subject.
Unable to personally reach the many thousands of people who have written him with an interest in developing their own E.S.P., he has recorded this material so that each person may practice these techniques in the privacy of his own home and learn. to utilize this wonderful extra sensory power for more abundant living.
Mr. Sherman has authored over 70 published self-help books, many of them best sellers such as "How to Turn Failure into Success," "Thoughts Through Space," "Know Your Own Mind," and "TNT The Power Within You."
Your Extra Sensory Powers How Messages Are Sent How Message Are Received Mental Atmosphere Mind To Mind Preparation For Sending Preparation For Receiving Long Distance Telepathic Experiments Feelings In Telepathy Partners For Mind Communication Technique For Performing Telepathy
