The hippest chick, Anita swung the hardest of any band singer, and lived hardest too. She struggled for many years with heroin, but lived to 87, God bless her.
LET ME OFF UPTOWN (OKeh 6210) was written by the legendary alto saxophonist-bandleader Earl Bostic and Redd Evans. The latter wrote the lyrics and the former wrote the music. Recorded on May 8th, 1941 in New York City. Released on June 20th, 1941.
They didn't call Roy Aldridge "Little Jazz" for nothing! A smaller guy with a HUGE sound!! Solid!! And I only pray Some of the Angels Up There sing like Anita O'Day.....Doris day, Ella May Morse, Ella Fitzgerald... ❤❤❤
My mom belonged to the Columbia Records Club when you could receive some recordings for a penny. She introduced me to a variety of music. When I went to the record store I asked where do I find the big band sound. He said they are in the Jazz section. I didn't know is was called Jazz. My mom was born May 9, 1926. I also liked the music she liked.
I grew up listening to my late father's music, he loved Benny Goodman, Nat King Cole, Glenn Miller. But it was listening to Gene Krupa that got me hooked on music. Got my first drum kit in 1969 as a 9 year old wannabe, Gene. Then I really took notice of some guy named Ringo Starr. And in 2021 I'm teaching two of my grandkids to play. Thanks Dad. RIP old fella. Love you
That's how to put the show into the big-band biz. The moment when the rest of the trumpet section bows in homage to Eldridge's skill - oh, the speed of his fingering! - is a good touch. Anita looks and sounds very young, full of sass and energy and swing - and she was a mean poker-player, they say, as sidemen on the band bus found out to their cost. "A crazy ckick but she sure could sing," Krupa summed her up.
As a child, by accident that thing that hangs down in the back our our mouths, was cut from her, so she couldn't really do vibrato. That is why she often sang very quickly....like 16th notes.
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gene krupa band was one best big bands around at this time
"Well blow, Roy, blow!!" I read a description of the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 which said that in the midst of it, someone recalled hearing a record player blasting out very loud - probably with the volume control having been knocked up to its highest level by the concussion of an explosion - "Let Me Off Uptown". And yeah, things were "blowing" right then, ironically.
If true, that would have been about six months after the song was released on disc- long enough for airplay to have put it into general circulation and public recognition before the Imperial Japanese Navy butted in.
Roy Eldridge or "little jazz" his nick name , was one of the greatest trumpet players of the big band era! he made some great recordings like this one with Gene Krupa and also some terrific records with Artie Shaw. In fact Artie Shaw called Roy the 'spark plug' in his band and he really was. Roy could swing like nobody else! check out him playing 'After you've gone' he's amazing!
Anita o day chriss oconnor esther philipps one of the best all times voices sarah vaughn dinah washingnton connie francis i fall in love with all them voices body and soul i am a mexican
Just love it - Anita O'Day - more than a brilliant jazz singer - bright, intelligent - should have been picked up by Hollywood. She'd carry a musical - but, second thoughts, in interviews she said she didn't like them and wasn't interested in Broadway.
jason60chev ...An absolute vocal highlight, that O'Day got down perfectly. What a lead-in to Eldridge's solo, and that great classic swing arrangement.
Anita, Anita, I love you baby! You give me a rise whenever I hear your voice, and I listen to you most every day. Honeysuckle Rose (from Fifteen Minutes with you) is the best ever. Did you dig Elvis? You are more sophisticated - to hip for the room - but your voice, especially on that performance, brings him to mind in certain phrases (going into the bridge 3rd chorus, for example.) I now you are now on the wrong side of the lawn, but to me you are pure jazz spirit, as alive this moment as the day your were born. You ARE the Nightingale in Barkley square! Love from an older jazz guy. JS
Just outstanding. Sure we have talented artists - but they had a level of euphoria and virtuosity - a lost high culture of analog virtuosity. And full of love.
Anita lived with us when I was a kid for a couple years. She was roommates with Judy Garland and personal friends with Ronald Reagan when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild. Classy people, class acts. I am restoring 18 eight track 1/2" reels for a vinyl release early 2025. Recent developments in software allow me to restore the 60 year old audio and I'm re-recording stems through Neve Shelford channels into a sub pico digital converter and can separate the bass from the drums for different compression ratios. I can also remove plosives, hum, rumble, phase align, hiss, non musical noise, etc. THIS ONE IS GOING TO BE ALL KILLER, NO FILLER. Haven't decided on a name for the album yet...
This was about as far as on-screen racial integration went in 1942. There is plenty of interplay between O'Day and Eldridge. Ironically they did not click personally- their antagonism was disrupting the band when Krupa's dope bust killed it. But considering that Petula Clark could cause an uproar by touching Harry Belafonte's arm on TV as late as 1968, it is striking. Shortly after this soundie Lena Horne broke through as a star singer in movies, and Hazel Scott as a pianist, but their sequences were still detachable by Jim Crow exhibitors. However, Krupa had been backing integration since he and Benny Goodman had played with Fletcher Henderson's outfit in the md-1930s. Krupa once got into a fight with a restaurant manager who would not let Eldridge join other band members, and spent a night in the pokey. 'Let Me Off Uptown' was treated at the time as a mere novelty number. But Eldridge, a prickly and intense character at all times, felt that Anita O'Day was stealing his limelight.
You're so knowledgeable and interesting! How did you find all this out about the relationship between Roy and Anita O'Day? I met Roy Eldridge in 1976. He was my idol! Still is.
I'm not so sure they didn't get along. They had a lot of chemistry here. I think the stories might have been made up because of the uproar over this scene where they seem like friends. He could have been murdered over this sort of interaction with a white woman in the early 1940's. It would save both his life and her career if a story was put out that they were not friends.
Roy? Is that Roy ELDRIDGE? Yes, looks like it is... I sure love Anita's swinging voice. I don't any problems with her vibrato (or the vibrato she thought she lacked).
+Lamont Lewis Amazing artist! I first heard him in LITTLE JAZZ which he played with the Artie SHAW band (one of the only numbers where Mr. SHAW does NOT have a clarinet solo as it's really a short concerto for trumpet and jazz band). Then I saw him play great trumpet in one of the first episodes of ROUTE 66. The episode was called GOOD NIGHT SWEET BLUES... very touching... watch it, it's on RUclips.
I don't know the name of it, but that boxing bag looking thing in the back of your throat..well, Anita's was accidently removed as a child, so when she sang she did not have any natural vibrato....which is why she often sand in fast 16th/64th notes.
Yes, that's very true. She would say it herself. She sings so beautifully one needs an extra trained ear to catch it. I believe the boxing bag in question is called the glottis (or epiglottis was it?).
that was a great episode, one of the few that was really great. a lot were good, but that one and the one with lon chaney jr and peter lorre and karloff was another true great show.
All ye Roy ELDRIDGE fans should also enjoy a number he did with Artie SHAW called A LITTLE JAZZ. Maestro does not solo. The whole piece is a great pre-jazz cool concerto between trumpet and orchestra. I highly recommend it.
(Ran out of word limit!) ...to me you are pure jazz spirit, as alive this moment as the day you were born. Coolest vibe ever! Love, from an older jazz guy. JS
Анита просто супер !!!! Люблю её и могу слушать бесконечно! Её волшебный чуть хрипловатый тембр голоса,красивый свинг ,жаль,что поздно открыла её для себя.❤❤❤
@@Jamestown-y9j For example, Tommy Dorsey would wear lighter clothes than his men. Krupa had twice the stand-out potential because he was the drummer as well as the leader. They were becoming featured star soloists, often with their initials on the bass drum. But Gene modestly stays back, placing the pianist out front with the vocalist.
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My parents very much dislike this music, and my grandparents, who were in their 20s in this era, disliked it as well. My grandmother would ask me why I didn't listen to the music "kids my age" listened to. Lemme tell ya, if you think that a couple of pot and heroin head jive cats like Gene and Anita were bad, you have absolutely NO CLUE what trash the entertainers today are putting on. And yes, Gene, Anita, and Roy are mighty cool in my book. 👌👌👌
FilmsFor SMARTpeople cool lady period!! why put color into it? the great Roy Eldridge sure didn't...ya know , being hip means just that, being hip...so you get hip and you get groovy and don't follow the crowd,daddyo..
So much backstory here. Anita and Roy became friends, much later, but at the time, he complained about her to Krupa. Their performances together were working for the band--and were partly her idea, she told Krupa he needed a soloist who could really swing, Roy was available, they worked well together, and it worked out great for all concerned. But Roy kept saying he wanted Anita to stop dancing while he played, something she was known for, that audiences really liked. She was taller than him too, as you see. So he felt overshadowed, that everybody was looking at her, even as his solos were getting cheers (probably the best trumpet man not named Louis, and Louis was past his peak by then, Dizzy wasn't a thing yet). She was helping him become a bigger success, but he didn't see it like that. Big Band politics could get real complex. But Anita soldiered on, and they had some hits together. Later on, he appreciated her more, and they did quite a few gigs when they were older. Now look at this video--nothing objectionable, right? Just folks having fun. I can't tell if the girl is white or just light, but either way, it looks like a mixed race couple dancing. And look at the date. Jim Crow's still on the march. Separation of the races wasn't just a thing in Dixie. Anita wasn't sleeping with black men--at that time, she gave it a go later, younger man, didn't work out--but she was known as the Jezebel of Jazz (her own husband came up with that!). Her image was sexually suggestive. So was her voice. She was a damned decent girl at heart, lost her virginity rather late (due to marrying an apparently asexual drummer as a teen, spent two years trying to make it with him, gave up), made up for lost time. The Jezebel image sold her songs, but also set her up for heartache. Point is, a very talented attractive white girl--singing and dancing with a black man. Playing what began as black music. (That even some black people found offensive, the gospel set mainly). Puts you on certain folks' radar. So later on, when she started doing heroin just to avoid drinking too much--the stress of that life was immense--they came after her, and if they couldn't get the evidence, they'd cook it up. She did hard time. Hard as Billie Holiday. Much less publicity. Nobody thought of what was happening to her as racism. Even though it was, because as a white girl, she was not supposed to be hanging with black people, swinging with them. And she did. Never gave it a moment's thought. I can swing, they can swing, why not swing together? All she cared about was the music. You can't play the best music without being with the best players. Anita O'Day was victimized, same as Billie Holiday, for the same damnable reason--crossing the color line. We canonized Billie for that--it's important to remember what was done to her. But Anita was no less a victim--more of a survivor, I'd say, but it was a very near thing, she could easily have died young too. Neither of them was a saint, we're being honest. Neither claimed to be. But that music had to come from somewhere divine. In her memoirs, Anita grieved that Billie didn't seem to like her--wouldn't even talk to her when they shared a dressing room. Billie doesn't even mention Anita in her memoirs--lots of other white girl singers, not all of them positively, but some. She avoided forming a friendship, even though the first time they met was to buy drugs and shoot up together (I guess so neither could narc on the other). I can think of a variety of reasons for Billie shunning Anita--none of them were good ones. Maybe the reason Billie didn't make it to old age was that she kept picking the wrong people to trust and open up to. But that's another backstory
Keep on dreaming. Krupa was more influental as a drummer, O'Day as a singer. funny thing: although Eldridge respected O'Day as a singer he was very intimidated by the way she would steal the show and would complain about it.
At first I thought your comment was just racist whining, bc I'm an Anita fan, but you're right imo. Just my opinion on what he was capable of compared to the rest. He outshone them all in ability.
Of this was a great band but staged as Roy was a giant in the music after Louis Armstrong. Legendary drummer Krupa was in the set when Benny Goodman's band got blown away by Chick Webb not because of having white musicians but because not having a Harlen arranger which he subsequently hired Fletcher Henderson. Fletcher took out charts that were 10 yrs old and all were hits for the Goodman band. At the end if the day it is about color - green.
The female dancer name is Jeanne Bayer. She was a well known dancer, possibly discovered at the Savoy Ballroom where all the Lindy hoppers danced. The guy was a professional dancer as you can see.
@@MusicandDancing4Ever Professional or maybe not...who really knows unless he is identified. Many guys could really good acrobatics and splits and stuff. Not saying you are wrong....
@@MusicandDancing4Ever IIRC the male hoofer is Jazzlips Richardson, who is much older and (in accordance with the protocol of the times) darker than Jeanne Bayer: light skin color was considered necessary for women playing to mixed audiences, on film as well as in Harlem night spots. The song is about fashionable white folks visiting 'uptown' venues such as the Cotton Club. Richardson had been in the original Broadway musical of 'The Green Pastures' and one of the 'Blackbirds' revues- both angled to white clienteles. This soundie is claimed to be the first in which a white woman, O'Day, and a black man performed together. But it would need Joshua to blow a lot harder even than 'Little Jazz' Roy Eldridge before all the walls of segregation came tumbling down.
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The hippest chick, Anita swung the hardest of any band singer, and lived hardest too. She struggled for many years with heroin, but lived to 87, God bless her.
National Treasure, She live hard, played hard and sang divine.
LOVE LOVE LOVE ANITA. One of the most underrated jazz singers in American history.
Anita Was the swingingest gal in jazz. 💛💛💛
Anita is a class act and I’ve always loved that Gene Krupa crazy style. Wow. Roy blow our blues away.
Anita was the coolest chick ever.
LET ME OFF UPTOWN (OKeh 6210) was written by the legendary alto saxophonist-bandleader Earl Bostic and Redd Evans. The latter wrote the lyrics and the former wrote the music. Recorded on May 8th, 1941 in New York City. Released on June 20th, 1941.
Thank u for the knowledge. I am a jazz/swing fan to the core hungry for the history. Cheers
They didn't call Roy Aldridge "Little Jazz" for nothing! A smaller guy with a HUGE sound!! Solid!!
And I only pray Some of the Angels Up There sing like Anita O'Day.....Doris day, Ella May Morse, Ella Fitzgerald... ❤❤❤
If this music doesn't make you move, you be dead!
When I was a teenager I wouldn't be caught listening to my Mothers music. Now it's so cool.
Your mother was definitely cool if she liked this.
My mom belonged to the Columbia Records Club when you could receive some recordings for a penny. She introduced me to a variety of music. When I went to the record store I asked where do I find the big band sound. He said they are in the Jazz section. I didn't know is was called Jazz. My mom was born May 9, 1926. I also liked the music she liked.
I grew up listening to my late father's music, he loved Benny Goodman, Nat King Cole, Glenn Miller.
But it was listening to Gene Krupa that got me hooked on music. Got my first drum kit in 1969 as a 9 year old wannabe, Gene. Then I really took notice of some guy named Ringo Starr. And in 2021 I'm teaching two of my grandkids to play. Thanks Dad. RIP old fella. Love you
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When I was a teenager I would be caught listening to my [Great Grand /Grand] Mothers'music . . .and it's STILL so cool.
The world's greatest trumpeter playing with the world's greatest drummer.
....and one of the world's greatest singers also.....
Krupa, idolized by millions. What an era.
She is so hip...so cool.
She has more class and talent then the so called pop singers these days
Wasn't she a morphine addict? In fact she was called the Jezebel of jazz.
💯 agree
Facts.
@@jeffpagan7735 Nope. Just got hauled in for pot possession, like so many others.
Agreed 😌
I've never seen so many people doing what they LOVE to do!!! Anita, Gene, Roy and the whole crew were superb
Jeepers crow exactly my thoughts. That chick had STYLE
She was the talk of the town
ROY ELDRIDGE BABAY! And with ANITA!
This is why I love jazz music. It’s just fun.
That's how to put the show into the big-band biz. The moment when the rest of the trumpet section bows in homage to Eldridge's skill - oh, the speed of his fingering! - is a good touch. Anita looks and sounds very young, full of sass and energy and swing - and she was a mean poker-player, they say, as sidemen on the band bus found out to their cost. "A crazy ckick but she sure could sing," Krupa summed her up.
As a child, by accident that thing that hangs down in the back our our mouths, was cut from her, so she couldn't really do vibrato. That is why she often sang very quickly....like 16th notes.
gene krupa band was one best big bands around at this time
An overlooked beauty. When my Dad heard this one in the 1970's, he couldn't believe it had escaped his attention during his college years.
Anita was wicked cute back in them days.
Priceless Americana!
Gene Krupa was so cool
Fantastique band!!
J'adore 👍👍🍸🍸
I love Gene and his amazing energy ❤️
May music live forever ❤️
"Well blow, Roy, blow!!"
I read a description of the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 which said that in the midst of it, someone recalled hearing a record player blasting out very loud - probably with the volume control having been knocked up to its highest level by the concussion of an explosion - "Let Me Off Uptown". And yeah, things were "blowing" right then, ironically.
If true, that would have been about six months after the song was released on disc- long enough for airplay to have put it into general circulation and public recognition before the Imperial Japanese Navy butted in.
Roy Eldridge or "little jazz" his nick name , was one of the greatest trumpet players of the big band era! he made some great recordings like this one with Gene Krupa and also some terrific records with Artie Shaw. In fact Artie Shaw called Roy the 'spark plug' in his band and he really was. Roy could swing like nobody else! check out him playing 'After you've gone' he's amazing!
I will check it out, thanks!
And he was a bit jealous of Anita. He thought she was taking some of his spotlight
Anita o day chriss oconnor esther philipps one of the best all times voices sarah vaughn dinah washingnton connie francis i fall in love with all them voices body and soul i am a mexican
Gene krupa Best drummer of all time!
Jean Tourangeau so true
Along with BUDDY RICH & COZY COLE .
@@davidwesley2525 Zutty Singleton, "Big Sid" Catlett, Louie Bellson Jo Jones to name a few all great in their own way.
Sonny Payne!!
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Just love it - Anita O'Day - more than a brilliant jazz singer - bright, intelligent - should have been picked up by Hollywood. She'd carry a musical - but, second thoughts, in interviews she said she didn't like them and wasn't interested in Broadway.
She also had some problems with drugs and the law.
"Well BLOOOOW, Roy, BLOOOOW!!!!"
jason60chev ...An absolute vocal highlight, that O'Day got down perfectly. What a lead-in to Eldridge's solo, and that great classic swing arrangement.
Bob Riedinger I think they quoted that for the wrong reason
Now I know where Keith Moon got his shtick. And Anita looking so fabulously young!
She was about 21-22 in this video.
Really cool and cute.
I read that Keith Moon, Ginger Baker and John Bonham each credited Gene Krupa as a huge influence on their drumming.
@@carlcushmanhybels8159 Gene Krupas style was extremely unique and serious drumers of swing, jazz , rock , all looked to Krupa for inspiration!
Anita O'Day fans---Check out her Newport Jazz 1958 video of Sweet Georgia Brown and Tea for Two--The Best!
here's that clip: ruclips.net/video/DcMmVGrzpy8/видео.html
The BEST jazz vocal performance of the greatest jazz singer of all time!
Anita, Anita, I love you baby! You give me a rise whenever I hear your voice, and I listen to you most every day. Honeysuckle Rose (from Fifteen Minutes with you) is the best ever. Did you dig Elvis? You are more sophisticated - to hip for the room - but your voice, especially on that performance, brings him to mind in certain phrases (going into the bridge 3rd chorus, for example.) I now you are now on the wrong side of the lawn, but to me you are pure jazz spirit, as alive this moment as the day your were born. You ARE the Nightingale in Barkley square! Love from an older jazz guy. JS
191747 agree
Copy that, 191747 ! Anita AND Roy Eldridge?? Wishing there was talent like that today . . .
@@jdchandeleur1620
Sadly, there isn't guys 😞
Anita was cute and the hippest chick singer.
You feel like steppin" out? All you got to shout - is let me off uptown!
Just outstanding. Sure we have talented artists - but they had a level of euphoria and virtuosity - a lost high culture of analog virtuosity. And full of love.
Anyone know the names or anything else about the dancers in this vid? They are marvelous
"Come here Roy and get groovy"
Must be that up-town rhythm.
Anita lived with us when I was a kid for a couple years. She was roommates with Judy Garland and personal friends with Ronald Reagan when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild.
Classy people, class acts. I am restoring 18 eight track 1/2" reels for a vinyl release early 2025. Recent developments in software allow me to restore the 60 year old audio and I'm re-recording stems through Neve Shelford channels into a sub pico digital converter and can separate the bass from the drums for different compression ratios. I can also remove plosives, hum, rumble, phase align, hiss, non musical noise, etc. THIS ONE IS GOING TO BE ALL KILLER, NO FILLER. Haven't decided on a name for the album yet...
LEGENDERY GENEN KRUPA
Don't forget Anita & Roy .
music has not got better with time has it?
1941 had something we dont have today.Good clean pure music.
Talent and commitment?
This was about as far as on-screen racial integration went in 1942. There is plenty of interplay between O'Day and Eldridge. Ironically they did not click personally- their antagonism was disrupting the band when Krupa's dope bust killed it. But considering that Petula Clark could cause an uproar by touching Harry Belafonte's arm on TV as late as 1968, it is striking.
Shortly after this soundie Lena Horne broke through as a star singer in movies, and Hazel Scott as a pianist, but their sequences were still detachable by Jim Crow exhibitors. However, Krupa had been backing integration since he and Benny Goodman had played with Fletcher Henderson's outfit in the md-1930s. Krupa once got into a fight with a restaurant manager who would not let Eldridge join other band members, and spent a night in the pokey.
'Let Me Off Uptown' was treated at the time as a mere novelty number. But Eldridge, a prickly and intense character at all times, felt that Anita O'Day was stealing his limelight.
Isn't Anita O'Day black?
@@nadyarossi5102 No, Irish.
You're so knowledgeable and interesting! How did you find all this out about the relationship between Roy and Anita O'Day? I met Roy Eldridge in 1976. He was my idol! Still is.
I'm not so sure they didn't get along. They had a lot of chemistry here. I think the stories might have been made up because of the uproar over this scene where they seem like friends. He could have been murdered over this sort of interaction with a white woman in the early 1940's. It would save both his life and her career if a story was put out that they were not friends.
A great band!!
I LOVE THIS!! ENOUGH SAID.
She's the best there is! And Krupa, Eldridge, Rich...
A true American original.
Anita O'Day!!
I remember them talking about this song when I went on a bus tour in Chicago. It’s so good ahhh
I saw her at SF's Plush Room in 2002. What a talent.
Fantastic
Roy? Is that Roy ELDRIDGE? Yes, looks like it is... I sure love Anita's swinging voice. I don't any problems with her vibrato (or the vibrato she thought she lacked).
+Philippe Renaud Yep, that's him.
+Lamont Lewis Amazing artist! I first heard him in LITTLE JAZZ which he played with the Artie SHAW band (one of the only numbers where Mr. SHAW does NOT have a clarinet solo as it's really a short concerto for trumpet and jazz band). Then I saw him play great trumpet in one of the first episodes of ROUTE 66. The episode was called GOOD NIGHT SWEET BLUES... very touching... watch it, it's on RUclips.
I don't know the name of it, but that boxing bag looking thing in the back of your throat..well, Anita's was accidently removed as a child, so when she sang she did not have any natural vibrato....which is why she often sand in fast 16th/64th notes.
Yes, that's very true. She would say it herself. She sings so beautifully one needs an extra trained ear to catch it. I believe the boxing bag in question is called the glottis (or epiglottis was it?).
that was a great episode, one of the few that was really great. a lot were good, but that one and the one with lon chaney jr and peter lorre and karloff was another true great show.
So good!
After hearing this now I wanna go uptown! 🎵🎺🎵😄
Jeff Gutierrez bring a gun !
How about this, Patricia 🔫...lol
Uptown is gone
You're gone, "oldie."
LOVE SWING!!!
Hi, Nicolas, pardon de me réveiller si tardivement, mais quel réveil ! grandiose ! fabuleux ! merci pour cette nouvelle perle précieuse ! Mr JP
All ye Roy ELDRIDGE fans should also enjoy a number he did with Artie SHAW called A LITTLE JAZZ. Maestro does not solo. The whole piece is a great pre-jazz cool concerto between trumpet and orchestra. I highly recommend it.
Philippe Renaud Good stuff. Just listened to it. Thanks for the recommendation!
Correct title is "Little Jazz".
(Ran out of word limit!)
...to me you are pure jazz spirit, as alive this moment as the day you were born. Coolest vibe ever! Love, from an older jazz guy. JS
Wonderful.
Totally cool daddy-O! 😍😇❤️👀😎
Energia, musica, gioia.
Анита просто супер !!!! Люблю её и могу слушать бесконечно! Её волшебный чуть хрипловатый тембр голоса,красивый свинг ,жаль,что поздно открыла её для себя.❤❤❤
Stupendo ..pieno di vita !
Fantastic video!!! I love Krupa's music, and will be posting some more of his 78's next week. Thanks for sharing this AWESOME clip!
Absolutely great!
Great Music For A Great Time
Love this
Love how Krupa (placed of course in the center) is the only sole dressed in black and everyone else in white, so he sticks out!
Quite common then, for the leader to stand out that way.
@@Jamestown-y9j For example, Tommy Dorsey would wear lighter clothes than his men.
Krupa had twice the stand-out potential because he was the drummer as well as the leader. They were becoming featured star soloists, often with their initials on the bass drum. But Gene modestly stays back, placing the pianist out front with the vocalist.
Wonderful take !!!! 🗽🐻
@seerider45 Merci pour votre commentaire !!! Ce Soundie date de 1942 , all the best , NICKY .
legendary!
Wonderful ¡¡¡
Jazz is Life
Krupa, in my view, was the very best Swing Era drummer. Anita was one of the very few of the best big band singers. The trumpeter was Roy Eldridge.
,,,,, Anita - Ooooooo Anita !!!!!
Love it
bom conhecer mais sobre um dos melhores bateras
Gene goes into heaven, Kent Vogel WBD
The poster didn't put the performance date.
Estou procurando That's what you think e After you've gone do disco The Big Band Sessions com Anita O' Day e Gene Krupa Big Band. Agradeço muito quem me arrumar.
Bloody hell ! Anita`s got an Evening Dress on ! ! ! . . . . Woof !
My parents very much dislike this music, and my grandparents, who were in their 20s in this era, disliked it as well. My grandmother would ask me why I didn't listen to the music "kids my age" listened to. Lemme tell ya, if you think that a couple of pot and heroin head jive cats like Gene and Anita were bad, you have absolutely NO CLUE what trash the entertainers today are putting on. And yes, Gene, Anita, and Roy are mighty cool in my book. 👌👌👌
Who are those two dancers? Don't they get credited?
Cool white lady...She "gets" it, daddy-O
FilmsFor SMARTpeople cool lady period!! why put color into it? the great Roy Eldridge sure didn't...ya know , being hip means just that, being hip...so you get hip and you get groovy and don't follow the crowd,daddyo..
She was a real hep chick
It's groove!
How hep can you get???!!!
Ahh that crazy muggles takin' affect
Anita looks MAD good here, my god.
So much backstory here.
Anita and Roy became friends, much later, but at the time, he complained about her to Krupa. Their performances together were working for the band--and were partly her idea, she told Krupa he needed a soloist who could really swing, Roy was available, they worked well together, and it worked out great for all concerned.
But Roy kept saying he wanted Anita to stop dancing while he played, something she was known for, that audiences really liked. She was taller than him too, as you see. So he felt overshadowed, that everybody was looking at her, even as his solos were getting cheers (probably the best trumpet man not named Louis, and Louis was past his peak by then, Dizzy wasn't a thing yet). She was helping him become a bigger success, but he didn't see it like that. Big Band politics could get real complex. But Anita soldiered on, and they had some hits together. Later on, he appreciated her more, and they did quite a few gigs when they were older.
Now look at this video--nothing objectionable, right? Just folks having fun. I can't tell if the girl is white or just light, but either way, it looks like a mixed race couple dancing. And look at the date. Jim Crow's still on the march. Separation of the races wasn't just a thing in Dixie. Anita wasn't sleeping with black men--at that time, she gave it a go later, younger man, didn't work out--but she was known as the Jezebel of Jazz (her own husband came up with that!). Her image was sexually suggestive. So was her voice. She was a damned decent girl at heart, lost her virginity rather late (due to marrying an apparently asexual drummer as a teen, spent two years trying to make it with him, gave up), made up for lost time. The Jezebel image sold her songs, but also set her up for heartache.
Point is, a very talented attractive white girl--singing and dancing with a black man. Playing what began as black music. (That even some black people found offensive, the gospel set mainly). Puts you on certain folks' radar. So later on, when she started doing heroin just to avoid drinking too much--the stress of that life was immense--they came after her, and if they couldn't get the evidence, they'd cook it up. She did hard time. Hard as Billie Holiday. Much less publicity. Nobody thought of what was happening to her as racism. Even though it was, because as a white girl, she was not supposed to be hanging with black people, swinging with them. And she did. Never gave it a moment's thought. I can swing, they can swing, why not swing together? All she cared about was the music. You can't play the best music without being with the best players.
Anita O'Day was victimized, same as Billie Holiday, for the same damnable reason--crossing the color line. We canonized Billie for that--it's important to remember what was done to her. But Anita was no less a victim--more of a survivor, I'd say, but it was a very near thing, she could easily have died young too. Neither of them was a saint, we're being honest. Neither claimed to be. But that music had to come from somewhere divine. In her memoirs, Anita grieved that Billie didn't seem to like her--wouldn't even talk to her when they shared a dressing room. Billie doesn't even mention Anita in her memoirs--lots of other white girl singers, not all of them positively, but some. She avoided forming a friendship, even though the first time they met was to buy drugs and shoot up together (I guess so neither could narc on the other). I can think of a variety of reasons for Billie shunning Anita--none of them were good ones. Maybe the reason Billie didn't make it to old age was that she kept picking the wrong people to trust and open up to. But that's another backstory
Hey now Anita and gene,,,,,
The real star here is the fabulous Roy Eldridge
Gogo Ubari really? what about Anita? what about the dancers? I see a whole lotta stars in this film
Roy Eldridge is far more greater and influential musician in Jazz history than all the others in this clip.
Keep on dreaming. Krupa was more influental as a drummer, O'Day as a singer.
funny thing: although Eldridge respected O'Day as a singer he was very intimidated by the way she would steal the show and would complain about it.
At first I thought your comment was just racist whining, bc I'm an Anita fan, but you're right imo. Just my opinion on what he was capable of compared to the rest. He outshone them all in ability.
Of this was a great band but staged as Roy was a giant in the music after Louis Armstrong. Legendary drummer Krupa was in the set when Benny Goodman's band got blown away by Chick Webb not because of having white musicians but because not having a Harlen arranger which he subsequently hired Fletcher Henderson. Fletcher took out charts that were 10 yrs old and all were hits for the Goodman band. At the end if the day it is about color - green.
Exists Some Films Of Anita Performing Live With The Stan Kenton's Orchestra ? But A Tabby The Cat
C19 antidote........play the wealth of great swing band tunes on You Tube.........day after day!
Roy Eldridge is the trumpeter.
I know it's a little gimmicky, but at 2:26… goosebumps. Sorry.
Karmadog ...Oh yeahhh. The sky really opens up on that one!
What year is this?
PLEASE, do you have any informarion about dancers?
The female dancer name is Jeanne Bayer. She was a well known dancer, possibly discovered at the Savoy Ballroom where all the Lindy hoppers danced. The guy was a professional dancer as you can see.
oh!! thanks a lot for asnwering!!! thank you!!!
@@MusicandDancing4Ever Professional or maybe not...who really knows unless he is identified. Many guys could really good acrobatics and splits and stuff. Not saying you are wrong....
@@MusicandDancing4Ever IIRC the male hoofer is Jazzlips Richardson, who is much older and (in accordance with the protocol of the times) darker than Jeanne Bayer: light skin color was considered necessary for women playing to mixed audiences, on film as well as in Harlem night spots. The song is about fashionable white folks visiting 'uptown' venues such as the Cotton Club.
Richardson had been in the original Broadway musical of 'The Green Pastures' and one of the 'Blackbirds' revues- both angled to white clienteles. This soundie is claimed to be the first in which a white woman, O'Day, and a black man performed together. But it would need Joshua to blow a lot harder even than 'Little Jazz' Roy Eldridge before all the walls of segregation came tumbling down.
What year was this filmed?
Who was the dancer dude in the awesome white tux
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It looks like she is the inspiration for Sugerpuss O'Shea in Ball of Fire.
Roy Eldridge.!!