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Anita O'Day

Jazz
Crooner
Swing
From a broken home in Chicago, Anita O'Day made her showbusiness beginnings as a dancer, leaving home at 14 to compete in the various "walk-a-thons" popular around America during the hardships of the 1930s. A meeting with drummer Don O'Day (who she married in 1937) encouraged her ambition to be a singer, at first with the Max Miller Quartet and then, in 1941, with Gene Krupa. She went on to work with Woody Herman and Stan Kenton when her unusually aggressive swing vocal style - which she attributed to a throat operation when she was young - established her as one of the most stri...
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How Come?
How Come?Anita O'Day

The Chronological Anita O'Day 1945-1950

2:44

Pick Yourself Up
Pick Yourself UpAnita O'Day

Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day

3:05

Drummin' Man
Drummin' ManAnita O'Day and Gene Krupa

Tutti-Frutti

2:56

Yesterdays
YesterdaysAnita O'Day, Bebo Valdés and Thomas Hengelbrock

New Faces – New Sounds, Introducing The Kenny Drew Trio

5:11

Hop, Skip and Jump
Hop, Skip and JumpAnita O'Day

The Rabbit in Paris

3:14

When the World Was Young
When the World Was YoungAnita O'Day

Anita O'Day & the Three Sounds

4:12

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