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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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Pick Yourself Up
Pick Yourself UpAnita O'Day

Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day

3:05

Yesterdays
YesterdaysAnita O'Day, Bebo Valdés and Thomas Hengelbrock

New Faces – New Sounds, Introducing The Kenny Drew Trio

5:11

If the Moon Turns Green
If the Moon Turns GreenAnita O'Day

The Lady Is a Tramp

Harlem on Parade
Harlem on ParadeAnita O'Day

History Of Jazz 1942

2:49

Fightin' Doug MacArthur
Fightin' Doug MacArthurAnita O'Day and Gene Krupa

1941-1942

2:57

I Won't Dance
I Won't DanceAnita O'Day

Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day

3:25

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