The Anita Kerr Singers - The Great Days Of The Big Bands

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Artist: The Anita Kerr Singers

Title: The Great Days Of The Big Bands

Year Of Release: 2003

Label: Ak Records

Genre: Jazz / Vocal Jazz

Quality: Mp3 / 320kbps

Total Time: 48:44 min

Total Size: 110 MB

 

 

Tracklist

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01. Take The 'A' Train

02. Begin The Beguine

03. 'round Midnight

04. Sunny Side Of The Street

05. Sentimental Journey

06. Hot Toddy

07. Stompin' At The Savoy

08. I'll Never Smile Again

09. String Of Pearls

10. Mood Indigo

11. Don't Get Around Much Anymore

12. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe

13. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

14. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm

15. Early Autumn

 

 

"I was born in Memphis, Tennessee. My mother and father were born in Italy and were around 12 and 15 years old when they immigrated to Mississippi with their families. They came to the USA to work on farms, and then as the years went by they migrated to Memphis. By that time my father owned a grocery store."

 

Anita Kerr was the vocal embodiment of the "Nashville Sound" which dominated country music throughout the mid-'50s and '60s. Along with the Jordanaires, her group, the Anita Kerr Singers, were the seminal backing vocal unit of the era, and it is estimated that at their early-'60s peak, they graced fully one-quarter of all of the records coming out of Nashville's studios. After touring Europe in 1964, she moved to California the next year to focus her energies on freelance production and songwriting, even as two of the Singers' LPs, We Dig Mancini and Southland Favorites, were winning Grammy awards (in the Vocal Group and Gospel categories, respectively). In the later years of the decade, Kerr teamed with poet Rod McKuen for a series of mood-music records, titled The Sea, The Earth, and The Sky, for which the Singers were renamed the San Sebastian Strings and Singers. At the same time, the group were featured weekly on the Smothers Brothers' sketch comedy program. By the 1970s, Kerr produced a number of easy listening records before moving to her second husband Alex Grob's native Switzerland to compose music for films. Eventually, she returned to Memphis. ~ Jason Ankeny

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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