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Tishala
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08-01-2000

Monday, November 27, 2006 - 9:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
I know this happened Thursday, but Anita was a the last of the greats...I was fortunate to have seen her many times the past several years at the Atlas Supper Club here in LA, where she performed almost every Monday night.

Singer Anita O'Day, the "Jezebel of Jazz," dies at age 87 link

Anita O'Day's sassy renditions of song standards made her one of the most respected jazz vocalists of the 1940s and '50s.

Anita O'Day, whose breathy voice and witty improvisation made her one of the most dazzling jazz singers of the past century and whose sex appeal and drug addiction earned her the nickname "the Jezebel of Jazz," died of pneumonia Thursday at a convalescent hospital in West Los Angeles. She was 87.

Miss O'Day led one of the roughest lives in jazz, possibly surpassed only by her idol, Billie Holiday.

Impoverished and largely abandoned in childhood, she became a marathon dancer and changed her surname from Colton to O'Day, pig Latin for "dough," slang for money.

A mental breakdown, a rape, numerous abortions, a 14-year addiction to heroin and time in jail all contributed to her legend as a survivor. Her 1981 as-told-to autobiography was appropriately titled "High Times Hard Times."

However, as a singer she soared. Jazz writer Nat Hentoff declared her "the most authentically hot jazz singer of all."

She was among the hippest female singers of the big-band period, lending rare emotional resonance to the relentlessly up-tempo and brassy big bands of Gene Krupa and Stan Kenton. She gave both orchestras their first million-selling hits, doing a rare interracial duet on "Let Me Off Uptown" with Krupa trumpeter Roy Eldridge and the novelty number "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine" with Kenton's ensemble.

For Verve records in the 1950s, she performed some of the most inventive interpretations of jazz standards. Andy Razaf, who wrote the words to Fats Waller's "Honeysuckle Rose," once said hers was the definitive version of the tune, surpassing even Waller's recording.

Miss O'Day also was highly regarded for her scat singing.

Her signature sound created an elasticity with words, often breaking them into faster eighth and sixteenth notes instead of quarter notes, which were harder for her to sustain. This tendency was a result of a childhood tonsillectomy in which the doctor accidentally removed her uvula, the bit of flesh in the throat whose vibrations control tone.

To compensate, she would playfully stretch single-syllable words; "you" would be "you-ew-ew-ew," love would became "lah-uh-uh-uv."

"When you haven't got that much voice, you have to use all the cracks and crevices," she once said.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Monday, November 27, 2006 - 11:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Here are a couple clips of Anita singing in the late 50's....from the film Jazz on a Summer's Day. here and here [the second is the hottest version of Tea for Two ever].

Retired
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07-11-2001

Monday, November 27, 2006 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Retired a private message Print Post    
Thanks for the links, Tish. Sad about her passing, but what a life! Glad you got to see her in person.

Jhonise
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07-10-2003

Monday, November 27, 2006 - 3:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jhonise a private message Print Post    
Author Bebe Moore Campbell has died.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/11/27/entertainment/e130523S14.DTL

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Monday, November 27, 2006 - 4:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Dang I loved her writing.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, November 27, 2006 - 8:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
She was only 56 :-(

Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 8:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cablejockey a private message Print Post    
Mariska Veres the singer in the Dutch band Shoclking Blue has died of cancer. She was 59.
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Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 9:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
Ray's TV dad has died

Peter Boyle died today:

http://cbs5.com/entertainment/entertainment_story_347112437.html

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 9:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
very sad. He was a fine actor and did lots of great work--I'm especially fond of him in Young Frankenstein.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 9:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Very sad. We're losing alot of good people this year.

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 9:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
Gosh, he was my dad's age. Very sad.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 9:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
awwwww...I never watched him on Everybody Loves Raymond without seeing Fraankenschtein (that's how his name was pronounced in Young Frankenstein). RIP

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 9:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
Holy crap!

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
That is sad news.

Scooterrific
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07-08-2005

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 9:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scooterrific a private message Print Post    
I'm majorly bummed!

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 9:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
I'm sure he is now up in heaven 'Puttin' On The Ritz'. That is one of my all time favorite movie scenes.

Zachsmom
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07-13-2000

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 9:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zachsmom a private message Print Post    
Oh wow! or from my favorite line of his from ELR "Holy Crap".

I adore him. And this is sad, very very sad :-(

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 10:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
:-(

Bandit
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07-29-2001

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 10:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bandit a private message Print Post    
Very sad.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 12:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
He sure brought a lot of joy to our household. We all love Young Frankenstein and enjoyed Ramond very much. He will be missed. Great actor.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 12:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Peter Boyle in Puttin' on the Ritz CLICK HERE

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 1:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
I went to Youtube a while ago and found it too. It made me laugh as hard as it always does.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 2:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
That's classic!! I love Gene Wilder, too.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 6:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Loved him, didnt know he was ill.
YF is one of my all time favs

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 7:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
That is so sad. I remember when he fell ill on set and they had to stop production while he went to the hospital. Back then I had hoped that was the worst of it for him. He is my favorite part of ELR. I think because I relate to the character.