Advantages: Some of the best songs ever written! Disadvantages: Very bland
John Barrowman has recently leapt into the spotlight due to a major role in the first series of the BBC's 'Doctor Who' relaunch, but has been known as a star of musicals for quite some time, and has also made various appearances in films and sitcoms. This album was presumably inspired by his recent involvement in two ColePorter projects - the National Theatre's revival of Anything Goes and the Porter biopic De-Lovely, where he dueted with Kevin Kline on the song 'Night and Day'.
Barrowman is one of those implausibly talented people - he's ludicrously handsome, he has a great singing voice, and he's an accomplished singer and dancer. The sort of man that inspires much jealousy, in short. His singing style is open and approachable, no nasal whining here. He has a wide range (he doesn't strain on any of the high notes) and you can make ...
Advantages: low calorie, high fibre. Disadvantages: ever chewed wood…
My son Jacob, who is two in May, has developed into a very fussy eater… definitely something he has picked up from his mother. At meal times he is happiest of all with a plate of dry cracker, dry breadsticks, dry French toast, a sprinkling of raisins… and favourite of all, a couple of slices of original Ryvita!
*My introduction to Ryvita*
Now it was not out of curiosity that I first tried Ryvita… more desperation! I have recently started on a whole new fitness regime and am trying to avoid as many of my old vices as possible (crisps, chocolate, biscuits, crisps, choco… you get the picture). On getting home from work early in this new regime feeling rather peckish, following my dinner (lunch for the posh amongst us!) of salad and raisins, I decided to raid the cupboard. Mother Hubbard had evidently popped ...
’t match what your opponent has said, and are therefore definitely not the card that they hold. The idea is to skilfully ask your questions eliminating as many people as possible as quickly as you can to be left with only one panel, which in theory should be the same one as your opponent has on their card. The winner is the person to get the correct answer first. Simple, eh?
Many of the characters depicted on the cards were a little scary. Big lipped Susan looked like an albino Joan Rivers, whilst Alfred looked like the bastard offspring of a Saxon warrior and your school caretaker. Also, for some reason unexplained by science or logic, you always seemed to pick Anita from the card-pack.
However, the makers had cleverly made each one different, so that there was always a question that would separate any two cards, even if it was ...
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Product details
Title
Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter With Billy May
Performer
Anita O'Day
Genre
Jazz Vocal
Sub Genre
Modern Jazz Vocals
Release Date
03/1991
Original Release Year
1959
Label / Distributor
Verve / Universal Music
Guest Artist(s)
O'Day, Anita & Billy May
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
42284926621
Catalogue Number
8492662
SPAR code
ADD
Additional notes
Album Notes
Out of print on cassette on Verve [422 849 266] as of December, 1993. Personnel includes: Anita O'Day (vocals); Jimmy Giuffre (arranger, reeds); Ralph Burns (arranger, piano); Bill Holman, Billy May (arranger); Charlie Kennedy (alto saxophone); Bill Perkins, Richie Kamuca, Budd Johnson (tenor saxophone); Jack Nimitz (baritone saxophone); Lee Katzman, Jack Sheldon, Al Porcino, Ray Triscari, Conte Condoli, Stu Williamson, Roy Eldridge (trumpet); Frank Rosilino Milt Bernhart, Llyod Elliot, Si Zetner, Joe Howard, Bob Edmondson (trombone); Kenny Shroyer (bass trombone); Alan Pollan (tuba); Jimmy Rowles, Paul Smith, Lou Levy, Arnold Ross (piano); Barney Kessel, Al Hendrickson, Tal Farlow (guitar); Joe Mondragon, Buddy Clark, Al McKibbon, Leroy Vinnegar (bass); Alvin Stoller, Lawrence Marable, Mel Lewis, Jackie Mills (drums). Producer: Norman Granz. Compilation producer: Will Friedwald. Includes liner notes by Will Friedwald. Digitally remastered by Joseph M. Palmaccio. For more than a half-century, Anita O'Day has been the most adventurous jazz singer of them all. Though Betty Carter may have bent more notes or stretched more vowels, it is O'Day who has always gone out on a musical limb no matter what the context. The woman more or less invented the abstract vocal style during her mid-'40s stint with Stan Kenton and when she first came to notice with Gene Krupa. And she hasn't looked back since. Of course, the risk in never playing safe is that you are bound to fail often. An Anita O'Day album can be quite an erratic affair. Happily, this lively Cole Porter set from 1959, featuring Billy May's fresh-sounding, hard-swinging arrangements, is one musical gamble that pays off. To listen to the singer expertly skirting the melody on "Night and Day" or skipping lightly through "Love For Sale," all the while respecting Porter's famous words, is truly exhilarating. The collection also includes O'Day's brilliant 1955 selection "You're the Top," in which she delightfully rewrites Porter's second verse as a swinging tribute to jazz itself.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Just One Of Those Things
2.
Love For Sale
3.
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
4.
Easy To Love
5.
I Get A Kick Out Of You
6.
All Of You
7.
Get Out Of Town
8.
I Got You Under My Skin
9.
Night And Day
10.
It's De Lovely
11.
I Love You
12.
What Is This Thing Called Love
13.
You're The Top
14.
My Heart Belongs To Daddy
15.
Why Shouldn't I
16.
From This Moment On
17.
Love For Sale
18.
Just One Of Those Things
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