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Anita O'day - Sweet Georgia Brown & Tea For Two (1958)

submitted by Farhad2000

1 decade 7 years 7 months ago

This is a legendary performance by Anita O'day at the Newport Jazz Festival. The video is from Jazz on a Summer's Day released in 1960, but covered the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

One of the finest singers to emerge from the swing era, Anita O'Day at her prime was a masterful scat singer and a true improviser whose interpretations of standards uplifted and altered even the most familiar songs. - From Jazz

12 Comments

Nice video.
Strange how the crowd just sat there in seats, must be a relaxing way to watch a concert.

Crap I was hoping no one would notice that.

This actually has to do with the production of Jazz on a Summer's Day. The film was shot but when in editing they realized they didn't have enough crowd reaction shots, so they mixed a bunch of them from random places and shot some of themselves watching the first cut.

Thats why it's so uneven in places.

I was puzzled by the crowd as well but LOVE the hats and gloves on the gals. It's funny to see everyone smoking too! Looks like it was a real scorcher and yet Anita looks so incredibly cool in every sense of the word.

Great movie. I wonder where my copy has gone. In any case, *promote

Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Thursday 1st March 2007 (promotion called by gold star member sbchapm)

Tags for this video have been changed from 'jazz festival, legendary performance' to 'jazz festival, legendary performance, 50s' - edited by swampgirl

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Adding video to channels (Jazz) - requested by kulpims.

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This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by mauz15.

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The thumbnail image for this video has been updated - findthumb requested by eric3579.

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