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Thu 23 Nov, 2006 05:36 pm
LOS ANGELES -
Anita O'Day, whose sassy renditions of "Honeysuckle Rose," "Sweet Georgia Brown" and other song standards that made her one of the most respected jazz vocalists of the 1940s and '50s, has died. She was 87.
O'Day died in her sleep early Thursday morning at a convalescent hospital in West Hollywood where she was recovering from a bout with pneumonia, said her manager Robbie Cavolina.
"On Tuesday night, she said to me, get me out of here," Cavolina said. "But it didn't happen."
Once known as the "Jezebel of Jazz" for her reckless, drug-induced lifestyle, O'Day lived to sing and she did so from her teen years until this year when she released "Indestructible!"
A blastt from the pastt
I remember Lambert, Hendricks and Ross too
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I saw that dys. She had a terrible problem with drugs, so Bud told me, and managed to overcome it herself cold turkey(so to speak) by lying on the beach in the sun when she got the shakes and when the opposite occurred, she would go in the water to cool off. I had no idea she was still alive.
McTag, I remember Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross, but I need to do some research on them to jog my memory.
It has been so long since I thought about her. Now I got to search out her records.
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