Artist.......: Anita O'Day Album........: Bolero At The Savoy Label........: Quadromania Genre........: Jazz Catnr........: 222465 source.......: CDDA rip.date.....: Sep-26-2006 str.date.....: Feb-28-2005 quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo Url..........: www.anitaoday.com track title time CD1 01. Deep In The Blues 03:18 02. Georgia On My Mind 02:56 03. Just A Little Bit South Of North Carolina 02:41 04. Slow Down 03:12 05. Let Me Off Uptown 03:03 06. Green Eyes 02:37 07. Kick It 02:26 08. Stop, The Red Light's On 03:19 09. The Walls Keep Talking 03:12 10. How Do? 03:18 11. Coppin A Plea 02:44 12. Bolero At The Savoy 02:52 13. Harlem On Parade 02:46 14. That's What You Think 03:13 15. Barrelhouse Bessie From Basin Street 03:08 16. Deliver Me To Tennessee 03:17 17. Massachusetts 03:17 18. Murder He Says 03:19 CD2 01. I'm Going Mad For A Pad 03:07 02. And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine 03:08 03. Gotta Be Gettin' 02:47 04. Are You Livin' Old Man? 02:39 05. Travelin' Man 02:55 06. I Want A Grown- Up Man 02:47 07. Them There Eyes 02:40 08. Memories Of You 02:59 09. How Come? 02:42 10. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me 02:50 11. Boogie Blues 03:23 12. Ops 1 02:57 13. Chickery Chick 02:56 14. Tea For Two 02:25 15. Sometimes I'm Happy 02:40 16. Ace In The Hole 02:57 17. What Is This Thing Called Love? 02:38 18. Hi Ho Trailus Boot Whip 02:24 CD3 01. It's Different When It Happens To You 02:57 02. Malaguena 02:54 03. I Told Ya I Love You, Now Get Out 02:56 04. How High The Moon 02:52 05. I Ain't Gettin' Any Younger 03:01 06. Key Largo 02:53 07. Jamaica Moon 02:26 08. Dont Kick It Around 03:24 09. So Much Of Nothing To Do 03:11 10. Poor Simple Simon 02:33 11. Blues For Bojangles 03:11 12. Your Eyes Are Bigger Than Your Heart 02:42 13. Tennessee Waltz 03:00 14. Yeah Bo 02:18 15. Something I Dreamed Last Night 03:10 16. If I Could Steal You From Somebody Else 02:29 17. You Took Advantage Of Me 02:19 18. Once There Lived A Fool 02:55 CD4 01. I Apologize 03:03 02. Black Moonlight 02:43 03. Lovesick Blues 02:36 04. Lover, Come Back To Me 02:26 05. Lullaby Of The Leaves 03:09 06. Rock And Roll Blues 03:17 07. Love For Sale 03:36 08. No Soap, No Hope Blues 02:34 09. Speak Low 02:35 10. The Lady Is A Tramp 02:39 11. Strawberry Moon 03:08 12. Pagan Love Song 02:39 13. Ain't This A Wonderful Day 02:40 14. Somebody's Cryin 03:00 15. Vaya Con Dios 03:39 16. Just One Of Those Things 02:41 17. From This Moment On 03:12 18. You're The Top 02:24 Runtime 208:44 min Size 230,1 MB Release Notes: Few female singers matched the hard-swinging and equally hard-living Anita O'Day for sheer exuberance and talent in all areas of jazz vocals. Though three or four outshone her in pure quality of voice, her splendid improvising, wide dynamic tone and innate sense of rhythm made her the most enjoyable singer of the age. O'Day's first appearances in a big band shattered the traditional image of a demure female vocalist by swinging just as hard as the other musicians on the bandstand, best heard on her vocal trading with Roy Eldridge on the Gene Krupa recording "Let Me Off Uptown." After making her solo debut in the mid-'40s, she began incorporating bop modernism into her vocals and recorded over a dozen of the best vocal LPs of the era for Verve during the 1950s and '60s. Though hampered by heavy drinking and later, drug addiction, during her peak period, she made a comeback and continued singing into the 1990s. Born Anita Belle Colton in Chicago, she was raised largely by her mother, and entered her first marathon-dance contest while barely a teenager. She spent time on the road and occasionally back at home, later moving from dancing to singing at the contests. After bad experiences amid brief tenures with Benny Goodman and even Raymond Scott, O'Day earned a place in Gene Krupa's band in 1941. Several weeks later, Krupa also hired trumpeter Roy Eldridge, and the trio combined to become an effective force displayed on hits like "Let Me Off Uptown," "Boogie Blues" and "Just a Little Bit South of North Carolina." She spent a brief period away from Krupa with Woody Herman, but returned to the band, only to have it break up by 1943. After moving to Stan Kenton, she starred on Kenton's first big hit, 1944's "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine." Another stint with Krupa presaged her solo debut in 1946, and with drummer John Poole as her accompanist, she recorded a moderate hit one year later with the novelty "Hi Ho Trailus Boot Whip." Her career really ignited after her first album (and the first LP ever released by Verve), 1955's Anita (also known as This Is Anita). Much more successful in the jazz world than she was in its pop equivalent, she performed at jazz festivals and jazz-oriented concerts, appearing with figures including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, and George Shearing. Her performance at 1958's Newport Jazz Festival made her fame worldwide after being released on film titled Jazz on a Summer's Day. O'Day's series of almost twenty Verve LPs during the '50s and '60s proved her to be one of the most distinctive, trend-setting, and successful vocal artists of the time, arguably surpassed only by Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. She worked with a variety of arrangers and in many different settings, including a hard-swinging Billy May collaboration (Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter with Billy May), an excellent, intimate set with the Oscar Peterson Quartet (Anita Sings the Most), several with the mainstream Buddy Bregman Orchestra (Pick Yourself Up, Anita), one with the cool-toned Jimmy Giuffre (Cool Heat), and a Latin date with Cal Tjader (Time for Two) as well as a collaborative LP with the Blue Note instrumental trio the Three Sounds. Even by the early '60s however, her ebullient voice had begun sounding tired; the cumulative effects of heroin addiction, its resulting lifestyle, and a non-stop concert schedule forced her into a physical collapse by 1967. After taking several years to kick alcohol and drug addictions, she made a comeback at the 1970 Berlin Jazz Festival and returned in the early '70s with a flood of live and studio albums, many recorded in Japan and some released on her own label, Emily Records. Her autobiography, 1981's High Times, Hard Times was typically honest and direct regarding her colorful past. Though her voice gradually deteriorated, O'Day recorded throughout the 1970s and '80s, into the '90s remaining an exciting, forceful vocalist on record as well as in concert.