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Anita O'Day: Berlin, 1970

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Marc Myers
May 11, 2015
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By 1970, Anita O'Day was moving into a new phase of her career. At clubs and in concert, she tended to stick with songs from the swing era that she had been singing for decades. When she took on new pop songs, she tended to work them over with her famous note-stuttering style, rarely giving them a chance to shine as written before opening fire. And yet …

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