Anita O'Day--1998 TV Interview, Comeback Performance

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8 жыл бұрын

Anita O'Day discusses her career and her return to singing after a serious accident that left her unable to walk or talk, in this rare 1998 interview with cable TV host Skip E. Lowe. Also shown are clips of her first comeback performance singing "Let's Fall in Love" and "It Had to Be You" with Marty Harris on piano, John Poole on drums and Jim DiJulio on bass.

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@rayszymarek2920 7 жыл бұрын

Back in 1956 I was a young man digging jazz. Over the rock over played chart singles. Heard Anita oday on verve with Gene Krupa on a reunion record. What I heard was a female jazz singer who could emulate what a jazz trumpet could do. She could belt em out. She could do the soft charts. She could scat. She could do it all. The legend Anita lady will always be remembered

@mattmammone2338 6 жыл бұрын

Hah its great to hear others, I am just over 25 and I grew up listening with my Grandma and my Dad was always playing a guitar and is the type for example, able to pick up a flute and play a melody and nice sound in an evening. My Grandmother made sure I was gonna be musically inclined and made sure I was praised for every new response till I was given the proper training :) I never knew it was serious and learning till much later. and kept about 85 albums and everyone was in there, just good music, variety like Gene Krupa and Glenn Miller, Charlie Parker Dinah Washington, Lionel Hampton, Ella Fitzgerald on Duke Ellington cuts, and it was anything my grandma liked, she had jazz rock blues pop and so I learned the distinctive sound like Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen.. and liked it all and now I am reconnecting with the originals I have found and its heavenly.

@waynej2608 3 жыл бұрын

@@mattmammone2338 Wowza! That is an impressive record collection!

@petershaw80 6 жыл бұрын

She's one of the greatest jazz singers of all time. In her day she could out-swing almost everyone. She's up there with Fitz, Sassie and Lady Day. And what a life she had. A truly remarkable lady. Emphasise Lady.

@direfranchement 5 жыл бұрын

She was good, but she'll was never in the same league as Ella, Sarah or Billie. Sorry.

@doitnowvideosyeah5841 3 жыл бұрын

@@direfranchement Sorry but she was totally up there with Ella, Sara etc. Her performance on ',Jazz on a summer afternoon' (Newport jazz fest) doung Tea for Two is as good as anything Ella ever did

@direfranchement 3 жыл бұрын

@@doitnowvideosyeah5841 She isn't. Fine sense of swing, but a VERY limited voice. June Christy was better if you're into that type of singing.

@waynej2608 3 жыл бұрын

@@direfranchement Ultimately, this is subjective. I'm not a jazz expert, I just enjoy it, and know what I like. And, I really dig all the ladies mentioned, including Anita. If I'm asked for my personal favorite, I'd say Billie Holiday, but they're all wonderful.

@waynej2608 3 жыл бұрын

@@doitnowvideosyeah5841 Anita really did shine at that festival. Great show! She was easy on the eyes, too.

@sergiomoreira3933 6 жыл бұрын

I love Anita O Day.

@jasbegs1258 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this, love Anita.

@freeweight5437 2 жыл бұрын

She was born in October 1919 so she’s 78 or 79 in this interview. She died in 2006. She was smoking and drinking in December 1987 when I saw her at a small club outside Portland, Oregon. Asked me for a smoke and I lit her cigarette. Was a good show, though she chewed out the sax player, a local guy who had a hard time keeping up with her. Also saw her at the Village Vanguard in 1962 (heroin period; she was so good, just a bit disconnected from the audience that night) and at the Mt Hood Jazz Festival in 1982 (big outdoor crowd; there’s a KZfaq clip that says it’s from Newport, but I remember her pink pants suit, the numbers, and the trouble she had singing into the bright afternoon sun).

@steviesugano6355 5 жыл бұрын

What a Classic interview. Thanks for posting.

@ihavenocleansocks Жыл бұрын

I love her. If anybody needs someone to take up the mantle of her #1 fan I'd like to apply. Been trying to get a hold of her book since I was 13.

@soniabeltran8632 5 жыл бұрын

remarkable lady

@DaughterOfChrist1997 2 жыл бұрын

I love you, Anita O’Day :)

@PatriotSteve 6 ай бұрын

Full of personality

@stacyblue1980 6 жыл бұрын

this opened with a clip from A Midsummer Nights Dream and it was bizarre to me. Puck! haha But its a good interview. I love Anita ♥

@waynej2608 3 жыл бұрын

At first, I thought that Mickey Rooney was going to be on, as well. Lol.

@j.w.2391 8 ай бұрын

Love tough broads like Anita. You can stomp 'em and they keep on going ! I think "Skylark" and Thanks for the Boogie Ride first turned me on to her sound ! She was quite the "liberated" lady and testament to a "survivor" !

@brianalejandro5746 4 жыл бұрын

I saw her final two performances at The Iridium in NYC.

@waynej2608 3 жыл бұрын

That is off the charts cool! Do you recall the dates? If I could go back in time, just for jazz, I'd catch Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday and Anita O'Day. I did get to see Miles Davis, once in the early 1980s. Fantastic.😎

@imbees2 Жыл бұрын

I love me some Anita o day

@DeeDee-dp9fs 4 жыл бұрын

John Poole was still drumming with her. He is pretty good.

@anairenemartinez165 7 жыл бұрын

the old broad is great, singer and more! Fantastic, and she was pretty too. Did not make it to Hollywood like Doris and Judy through

@imbees2 Жыл бұрын

Exactly. 😊

@weinerjay 7 жыл бұрын

The distortion because of the video quality is making me trip out!

@aeichler 7 жыл бұрын

I turned the stabilization off. Try again.

@waynej2608 3 жыл бұрын

@@aeichler It's awesome and legendary. Ty.

@rolom3 5 жыл бұрын

Does the interviewer have something wrong with him? He keeps saying her name and it's so annoying and just weird

@doitnowvideosyeah5841 3 жыл бұрын

She made Keith Richards look like a health nut.

@gingerlord4983 Жыл бұрын

What? She's older than that freak.

@carolineblake5201 6 жыл бұрын

an original American Jazz Stylist --

@odaydrums 4 жыл бұрын

Ghiminy Glick?

@imbees2 Жыл бұрын

Stop disrespecting Anita o day.

@stargate121 3 жыл бұрын

The interviewer is annoying.

@jiyujizai 4 жыл бұрын

🙂🍑💐🥀

@dxmxo9427 6 жыл бұрын

Did she smoke? She was quite aged, smoking can do that I hear

@mikeziccardi7497 6 жыл бұрын

Heavy drug use!!!!!!

@GLPMusic 6 жыл бұрын

I don't know about her smoking, but she had a very bad heroin habit. Actually was pronounced dead in her 40s!

@waynej2608 3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeziccardi7497 But, she had cleaned up around twenty yrs, before this interview. I'm guessing she continued to smoke, but I'm not sure. I thought she came off well, all things considered.

@mikehudson8884 2 жыл бұрын

@@waynej2608 Anita is probably 88 or 89 in this interview.

@gingerlord4983 Жыл бұрын

Her voice was always deep.