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Anita O'Day
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...
YesterdaysAnita O'Day, Bebo Valdés and Thomas Hengelbrock
New Faces – New Sounds, Introducing The Kenny Drew Trio
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Sweet Georgia BrownAnita O'Day
Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day
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I Can't Get StartedAnita O'Day
An Evening with Anita O'Day
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Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)Anita O'Day
Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day
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Let Me Off UptownGene Krupa, Roy Eldridge and Anita O'Day
Tutti-Frutti
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You Don't Know What Love IsAnita O'Day
An Evening with Anita O'Day
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