Confession time: Anita O'Day gives me the Woodiest of the Woodies. Scha-wing. There's that lazy, smoky, heroin-tinged voice...the effortless scatting...the band knowing how to kick it, but still lay back and be the coolest of cats...
Here's Miss O'Day singing "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Tea For Two" at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival -- obviously while she's riding the white horse. It starts out a little shaky -- she has a little problem with the stairs -- but then look out -- bam! She's got you flipped into a hammock and is swinging you in the hot afternoon.
Sadly, Miss O'Day passed away November 23, 2006.
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thanks for posting this...i loved it...
id look so good in that outfit [course i wish the world still dressed like the crowd]...the white gloves remind me of the numerous pairs my mother used to have...with little pearl buttons, and her monogram sewn in white thread...
look closely, the problem with the stairs comes from wearing those shoes... which are pretty outrageous......
looks like one of her shoes slipped off, and shes putting it back on, in the first few seconds...
its a little hard to tell, but after looking several times im absolutely certain shes wearing backless 'mules'....with at least a three inch heel...
given the time, im a little surprised some male didnt guide her all the way up...
its hard to lift your foot at all without having a 'mule' slide off...you have to take little steps....watch her walk across the stage, see the tiny quick steps?....
stairs are impossible...
in any other situation she would have slipped them off, at the bottom, and slipped them back on once she was up...
except for the fact that the shoes look sooooo good on her...she might have done better to have been air-lifted onto the stage by helecopter...
im imagining she had to walk across grass to even get to the stairs...in which case, i hope the ground was level and hard...and the grass not more than an inch high..
ana...
Since I've never walked in mules -- nor worn them -- I'll defer to your take on the stair issue.
I did, however, hear an interview with her, in which she admitted to being higher than a hippie at this particular concert.
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