Anita O'Day - Let Me Off Uptown

Ms. Anita O'Day, a three-time favorite of TTRH, she of the "Dance" (Ten Cents a Dance); "Tears" (And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine); and "New York" (Let Me Off Uptown) episodes. Here's Anita with the Gene Krupa Orchestra doing that last song. I add my recommendation to that of Our Host that you pick up her gritty, noirish biography, High Times, Hard Times.

There's also a new documentary out on Anita O'Day - The Life of a Jazz Singer - that is getting good reviews and probably well worth hunting down if you're lucky enough to live somewhere slightly less rural than New Hampshire. The last documentary that played in Dreamtime's home town was Our Friend, the Beaver at the Grange Hall.

Bryant Gumbel: "Your personal experiences include rape, abortion, jail, heroin addiction..."

Anita O'Day: "That's just the way it went down, Bryant."


Here's the trailer for Anita O'Day - The Life of a Jazz Singer

"Tears" at the Dreamtime Store

The latest shelf at the Dreamtime Store as been added, music from the "Tears" episode, including...

The Inflated Tear - Roland Kirk
96 Tears - ? and the Mysterians
And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine – Anita O’Day
Cry To Me – Solomon Burke
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry – Hank Williams Sr.
Cry Me A River – Julie London
I Sat And Cried – Jimmy Nelson

Tears A Go-Go – Charlie Rich
Cry One More Time – J. Geils Band
Laughing But Crying – Roy Brown
The Bells – Billy Ward & His Dominoes
Cry Tough – Alton Ellis and The Flames
I’ll Drown In My Own Tears – Lula Reed
Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy – Mose Allison

Missing from the shelf is " Big Boys Cry" by Bobby Charles and "No More Tear-Stained Makeup," by The Marvelettes, which one would think would be relatively easy to find, but Amazon apparently has no one carrying the "Return of the Marvelettes" CD where the song appears.

Julie London - Cry Me A River

via "MudCakeCreature" at the Expecting Rain Theme Time Forum. From Dylan's comments in the Tears episode, it sounds like he had a serious crush on Ms. London. The video below is probably a good explanation as to why...

? and the Mysterians - 96 Tears

and he was and they were.