Sings the Winners [Original recording remastered]

Editorial Reviews
Album Details
Japanese Reissue Includes Seven Bonus Tracks and 24bit Remastering.

Tracks:

Take The 'A' Train
Tenderly
Interlude (A Night In Tunisia)
Four
Early Autumn
Four Brothers
Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing)
My Funny Valentine
Frenesi
Body And Soul
What's Your Story, Morning Glory
Peanut Vendor (El Manisero)
Whisper Not
Blue Champagne
Stompin' At The Savoy
Hershey Bar
Don't Be That Way
Peel Me A Grape
Star Eyes

Customer Reviews:

A great catalogue of an amazing musician's work.......2007-01-10

I didn't discover this talented musician (Anita O'Day) until about a week or two before her unfortunate death at age 87. Her unique sound (I think which reminisces at times Judy Garland territory, but that's just a personal opinion), uncanny scatting abilities and amazing sense of swing engaged me enough to dig into her long musical legacy--and, since I adored her take on Miles Davis' "Four" after hearing it, I knew this was the CD to start out with (since it features "Four" as the, of course, fourth track), and it is indeed great. This re-release features the original set list from the first printing of Anita O'Day Sings the Winners and much more. "Four" happens to be my favorite song here and O'Day gives a tremendous performance with some brilliantly written lyrics (see album insert for details), but that's because it's the first song I heard from O'Day (and my favorite to date) and therefore I'm biased...but opener "Take the 'A' Train" (a classic), the amazing "Interlude (A Night in Tunisia)" (another favorite) and the scatwonderful "Four Brothers" make for perfect listens; "Frenesi," "Body and Soul," "Stompin' at the Savoy" and "Hershey Bar" are all wonderful as well. Songs like the Latin-influenced "Peanut Vendor" and standards like jazz favorite "My Funny Valentine" are only improved upon by O'Day's wonderfully brash, but confident, vocal delivery. Though she may no longer be here, her music lives on to this day...and Anita O'Day Sings the Winners is definitely an album to purchase for ANY music listener!

wish i'd known about her earlier..........2005-08-11

I watched a poorly produced jazz concert DVD, "Jazz on a Summer's Day" and didn't pay attention to O'Day because I was upset that the video showed footage of the the people during Monk's performance.

this is a great CD. all female jazz vocalists should give it a listen!

You MUST buy this CD!.......2004-09-09

This is the CD I live by. My greatest influence as a jazz singer is Anita O'Day and this is THE album to have. She scats like an instrumentalist of the highest degree and her phrasing is impeccable!! If you don't have one of her CD's yet, this is the one to purchase!

Stunning.......2002-08-23

This is one of the greatest albums done by any female jazz vocalist. Every track is superb but what Anita does with "Body and Soul" is nothing short of amazing. Her "Early Autumn" is purely gorgeous. She's in excellent voice, inventive, surprising, versatile (she's such a good uptempo singer people forget she does ballads beautifully with tenderness but none of the histrionics lady singers tend to love) and the accompaniments are first rate. The bonus tracks are from some of her finest recordings. This is what great jazz singing is all about and the production values, as with all of O'Day's Verve issues, are first-rate. I always loved this cover, too, but the Japanese cover is more glamorous.

A must-have........2002-06-02

Anita O'Day, whose singing career began in the big band era, was in the prime of her life when she recorded this LP for Verve in 1958. Amazingly, "Winners" was cut in only two days of that year, April 2 & 3, with Russ Garcia and His Orchestra on the first day (tracks 7-12), and the band of Marty Paich on the second (tracks 1-6). This CD has so many great cuts, it could have been called "The Very Best of Anita." "Take the A Train," "Peanut Vendor" and "Frenesi" are especially good. This is, without question, one of the best female vocalist recordings out there. Unfortunately, the six bonus tracks detract from the CD. But, that complaint aside, "Winners" easily rates 5 stars in my book.

Andy Williams Sings Steve Allen/Two Time Winners

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Hidden Treasure Revealed

Andy Williams Sings Steve Allen/Two Time Winners
Andy Williams
Manufacturer: Collectables
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Customer Reviews:

Hidden Treasure Revealed.......2001-02-21

WOW!!! What a wonderful hidden treasure revelaed with this fine double album re-release from Andy Williams. While most of the songs on the Two Time Winners album have been available for years, every song on the "Sings Steve Allen" album is new to me. These are wonderful gems from Andy, demonstrating a tone, range, and interpretation that we will never see again. A truely magnificant collection by one of the world's greatest entertainers. WOW what a discovery.

Gene Pitney Sings Just for You/World Wide Winners

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"Ship True Love Goodbye"
Typical Gene albums full of quality

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Love My Life Away, (I Wanna)
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Customer Reviews:

"Ship True Love Goodbye".......2005-07-13

Wow! This song is not on any other compilation i have seen. Killer teen song. Rest of the cd is good also, no other voice like Gene Pitney

Typical Gene albums full of quality.......2003-03-05

The first of the albums making up this twofer was built around his American top 20 hit, Mecca, and appears to be made up of entirely original material, including Aladdin's lamp and Mr Moon Mr Cupid and I, both of which he wrote himself. If any of the others are covers, they are so obscure that I don't recognise them, although Not responsible was subsequently covered by Britain's Helen Shapiro, the teenage hit-maker who eventually became a fine jazz singer. Most of the songs here are generally upbeat in outlook, including the ballads. I particularly like Cornflower blue and Time and the river.

The second half of this twofer is actually a compilation of his best songs up to that time, including Only love can break a heart, Town without pity and The man who shot Liberty Valance. It also includes Gene's own version of Hello Mary Lou, which he wrote but which Ricky Nelson had a worldwide hit with. It was not the only song Gene wrote that became a hit for others - among other examples are He's a rebel (Crystals) and Rubber ball (Bobby Vee). The German version of Town without pity is included as a bonus track.