Gene KRUPA & Anita O'DAY " Let Me Off Uptown " !!!
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2011
- RARE OLDIES SOUNDIES WITH MR GENE KRUPA & HIS BAND ! Gene Krupa (January 15, 1909 -- October 16, 1973) was an influential American jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style.
You can watch all my rare oldies soundies on : www.myspace.com/swingcocktail ! Many thanks , NICKY .
The hippest chick, Anita swung the hardest of any band singer, and lived hardest too. She struggled for many years with heroin, but lived to 87, God bless her.
This is my favorite video of hers. Her vibrato was second to none!
LOVE LOVE LOVE ANITA. One of the most underrated jazz singers in American history.
Anita is a class act and I’ve always loved that Gene Krupa crazy style. Wow. Roy blow our blues away.
When I was a teenager I wouldn't be caught listening to my Mothers music. Now it's so cool.
Your mother was definitely cool if she liked this.
My mom belonged to the Columbia Records Club when you could receive some recordings for a penny. She introduced me to a variety of music. When I went to the record store I asked where do I find the big band sound. He said they are in the Jazz section. I didn't know is was called Jazz. My mom was born May 9, 1926. I also liked the music she liked.
I grew up listening to my late father's music, he loved Benny Goodman, Nat King Cole, Glenn Miller.
But it was listening to Gene Krupa that got me hooked on music. Got my first drum kit in 1969 as a 9 year old wannabe, Gene. Then I really took notice of some guy named Ringo Starr. And in 2021 I'm teaching two of my grandkids to play. Thanks Dad. RIP old fella. Love you
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When I was a teenager I would be caught listening to my [Great Grand /Grand] Mothers'music . . .and it's STILL so cool.
LET ME OFF UPTOWN (OKeh 6210) was written by the legendary alto saxophonist-bandleader Earl Bostic and Redd Evans. The latter wrote the lyrics and the former wrote the music. Recorded on May 8th, 1941 in New York City. Released on June 20th, 1941.
Thank u for the knowledge. I am a jazz/swing fan to the core hungry for the history. Cheers
Anita Was the swingingest gal in jazz. 💛💛💛
If this music doesn't make you move, you be dead!
This is why I love jazz music. It’s just fun.
She is so hip...so cool.
The world's greatest trumpeter playing with the world's greatest drummer.
....and one of the world's greatest singers also.....
I've never seen so many people doing what they LOVE to do!!! Anita, Gene, Roy and the whole crew were superb
Jeepers crow exactly my thoughts. That chick had STYLE
She was the talk of the town
They didn't call Roy Aldridge "Little Jazz" for nothing! A smaller guy with a HUGE sound!! Solid!!
And I only pray Some of the Angels Up There sing like Anita O'Day.....Doris day, Ella May Morse, Ella Fitzgerald... ❤❤❤
Krupa, idolized by millions. What an era.
Roy Eldridge or "little jazz" his nick name , was one of the greatest trumpet players of the big band era! he made some great recordings like this one with Gene Krupa and also some terrific records with Artie Shaw. In fact Artie Shaw called Roy the 'spark plug' in his band and he really was. Roy could swing like nobody else! check out him playing 'After you've gone' he's amazing!
Gene Krupa was so cool
She has more class and talent then the so called pop singers these days
Wasn't she a morphine addict? In fact she was called the Jezebel of jazz.
💯 agree
Facts.
@@jeffpagan7735 Nope. Just got hauled in for pot possession, like so many others.
Agreed 😌
Priceless Americana!
That's how to put the show into the big-band biz. The moment when the rest of the trumpet section bows in homage to Eldridge's skill - oh, the speed of his fingering! - is a good touch. Anita looks and sounds very young, full of sass and energy and swing - and she was a mean poker-player, they say, as sidemen on the band bus found out to their cost. "A crazy ckick but she sure could sing," Krupa summed her up.
As a child, by accident that thing that hangs down in the back our our mouths, was cut from her, so she couldn't really do vibrato. That is why she often sang very quickly....like 16th notes.
Anita was the coolest chick ever.
I love Gene and his amazing energy ❤️
May music live forever ❤️
gene krupa band was one best big bands around at this time
Fantastique band!!
J'adore 👍👍🍸🍸
An overlooked beauty. When my Dad heard this one in the 1970's, he couldn't believe it had escaped his attention during his college years.
This was about as far as on-screen racial integration went in 1942. There is plenty of interplay between O'Day and Eldridge. Ironically they did not click personally- their antagonism was disrupting the band when Krupa's dope bust killed it. But considering that Petula Clark could cause an uproar by touching Harry Belafonte's arm on TV as late as 1968, it is striking.
Shortly after this soundie Lena Horne broke through as a star singer in movies, and Hazel Scott as a pianist, but their sequences were still detachable by Jim Crow exhibitors. However, Krupa had been backing integration since he and Benny Goodman had played with Fletcher Henderson's outfit in the md-1930s. Krupa once got into a fight with a restaurant manager who would not let Eldridge join other band members, and spent a night in the pokey.
'Let Me Off Uptown' was treated at the time as a mere novelty number. But Eldridge, a prickly and intense character at all times, felt that Anita O'Day was stealing his limelight.
Isn't Anita O'Day black?
@@nadyarossi5102 No, Irish.
You're so knowledgeable and interesting! How did you find all this out about the relationship between Roy and Anita O'Day? I met Roy Eldridge in 1976. He was my idol! Still is.
I'm not so sure they didn't get along. They had a lot of chemistry here. I think the stories might have been made up because of the uproar over this scene where they seem like friends. He could have been murdered over this sort of interaction with a white woman in the early 1940's. It would save both his life and her career if a story was put out that they were not friends.
"Well blow, Roy, blow!!"
I read a description of the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 which said that in the midst of it, someone recalled hearing a record player blasting out very loud - probably with the volume control having been knocked up to its highest level by the concussion of an explosion - "Let Me Off Uptown". And yeah, things were "blowing" right then, ironically.
If true, that would have been about six months after the song was released on disc- long enough for airplay to have put it into general circulation and public recognition before the Imperial Japanese Navy butted in.
ROY ELDRIDGE BABAY! And with ANITA!
Anita O'Day fans---Check out her Newport Jazz 1958 video of Sweet Georgia Brown and Tea for Two--The Best!
here's that clip: ua-cam.com/video/DcMmVGrzpy8/v-deo.html
The BEST jazz vocal performance of the greatest jazz singer of all time!
Just love it - Anita O'Day - more than a brilliant jazz singer - bright, intelligent - should have been picked up by Hollywood. She'd carry a musical - but, second thoughts, in interviews she said she didn't like them and wasn't interested in Broadway.
She also had some problems with drugs and the law.
Jazz is Life
Anita o day chriss oconnor esther philipps one of the best all times voices sarah vaughn dinah washingnton connie francis i fall in love with all them voices body and soul i am a mexican
You feel like steppin" out? All you got to shout - is let me off uptown!
Fantastic
"Well BLOOOOW, Roy, BLOOOOW!!!!"
jason60chev ...An absolute vocal highlight, that O'Day got down perfectly. What a lead-in to Eldridge's solo, and that great classic swing arrangement.
Bob Riedinger I think they quoted that for the wrong reason
LOVE SWING!!!
I LOVE THIS!! ENOUGH SAID.
Anita O'Day!!
So good!
Anita was wicked cute back in them days.
LEGENDERY GENEN KRUPA
Don't forget Anita & Roy .
1941 had something we dont have today.Good clean pure music.
Talent and commitment?
Anita, oh Anita🌹
Gene krupa Best drummer of all time!
Jean Tourangeau so true
Along with BUDDY RICH & COZY COLE .
@@davidwesley2525 Zutty Singleton, "Big Sid" Catlett, Louie Bellson Jo Jones to name a few all great in their own way.
Sonny Payne!!
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Love it
Wonderful.
A true American original.
Just outstanding. Sure we have talented artists - but they had a level of euphoria and virtuosity - a lost high culture of analog virtuosity. And full of love.
"Come here Roy and get groovy"
Must be that up-town rhythm.
A great band!!
Now I know where Keith Moon got his shtick. And Anita looking so fabulously young!
She was about 21-22 in this video.
Really cool and cute.
I read that Keith Moon, Ginger Baker and John Bonham each credited Gene Krupa as a huge influence on their drumming.
@@carlcushmanhybels8159 Gene Krupas style was extremely unique and serious drumers of swing, jazz , rock , all looked to Krupa for inspiration!
I remember them talking about this song when I went on a bus tour in Chicago. It’s so good ahhh
Stupendo ..pieno di vita !
music has not got better with time has it?
Fantastic video!!! I love Krupa's music, and will be posting some more of his 78's next week. Thanks for sharing this AWESOME clip!
Love this
(Ran out of word limit!)
...to me you are pure jazz spirit, as alive this moment as the day you were born. Coolest vibe ever! Love, from an older jazz guy. JS
Anyone know the names or anything else about the dancers in this vid? They are marvelous
Absolutely great!
Energia, musica, gioia.
Great Music For A Great Time
She's the best there is! And Krupa, Eldridge, Rich...
It's groove!
Wonderful ¡¡¡
I saw her at SF's Plush Room in 2002. What a talent.
Wonderful take !!!! 🗽🐻
After hearing this now I wanna go uptown! 🎵🎺🎵😄
Jeff Gutierrez bring a gun !
How about this, Patricia 🔫...lol
Uptown is gone
You're gone, "oldie."
Totally cool daddy-O! 😍😇❤️👀😎
legendary!
Roy? Is that Roy ELDRIDGE? Yes, looks like it is... I sure love Anita's swinging voice. I don't any problems with her vibrato (or the vibrato she thought she lacked).
+Philippe Renaud Yep, that's him.
+Lamont Lewis Amazing artist! I first heard him in LITTLE JAZZ which he played with the Artie SHAW band (one of the only numbers where Mr. SHAW does NOT have a clarinet solo as it's really a short concerto for trumpet and jazz band). Then I saw him play great trumpet in one of the first episodes of ROUTE 66. The episode was called GOOD NIGHT SWEET BLUES... very touching... watch it, it's on UA-cam.
I don't know the name of it, but that boxing bag looking thing in the back of your throat..well, Anita's was accidently removed as a child, so when she sang she did not have any natural vibrato....which is why she often sand in fast 16th/64th notes.
Yes, that's very true. She would say it herself. She sings so beautifully one needs an extra trained ear to catch it. I believe the boxing bag in question is called the glottis (or epiglottis was it?).
that was a great episode, one of the few that was really great. a lot were good, but that one and the one with lon chaney jr and peter lorre and karloff was another true great show.
Gene goes into heaven, Kent Vogel WBD
All ye Roy ELDRIDGE fans should also enjoy a number he did with Artie SHAW called A LITTLE JAZZ. Maestro does not solo. The whole piece is a great pre-jazz cool concerto between trumpet and orchestra. I highly recommend it.
Philippe Renaud Good stuff. Just listened to it. Thanks for the recommendation!
Correct title is "Little Jazz".
Love how Krupa (placed of course in the center) is the only sole dressed in black and everyone else in white, so he sticks out!
Quite common then, for the leader to stand out that way.
@@jameswalton3930 For example, Tommy Dorsey would wear lighter clothes than his men.
Krupa had twice the stand-out potential because he was the drummer as well as the leader. They were becoming featured star soloists, often with their initials on the bass drum. But Gene modestly stays back, placing the pianist out front with the vocalist.
Anita, Anita, I love you baby! You give me a rise whenever I hear your voice, and I listen to you most every day. Honeysuckle Rose (from Fifteen Minutes with you) is the best ever. Did you dig Elvis? You are more sophisticated - to hip for the room - but your voice, especially on that performance, brings him to mind in certain phrases (going into the bridge 3rd chorus, for example.) I now you are now on the wrong side of the lawn, but to me you are pure jazz spirit, as alive this moment as the day your were born. You ARE the Nightingale in Barkley square! Love from an older jazz guy. JS
191747 agree
Copy that, 191747 ! Anita AND Roy Eldridge?? Wishing there was talent like that today . . .
@@jdchandeleur1620
Sadly, there isn't guys 😞
Anita was cute and the hippest chick singer.
Анита просто супер !!!! Люблю её и могу слушать бесконечно! Её волшебный чуть хрипловатый тембр голоса,красивый свинг ,жаль,что поздно открыла её для себя.❤❤❤
Hi, Nicolas, pardon de me réveiller si tardivement, mais quel réveil ! grandiose ! fabuleux ! merci pour cette nouvelle perle précieuse ! Mr JP
Great vid, thanks for sharing
...you should put Eldrige's name somewhere, I think it's pretty interesting how him and O'day were playing as a duo back then
Krupa, in my view, was the very best Swing Era drummer. Anita was one of the very few of the best big band singers. The trumpeter was Roy Eldridge.
,,,,, Anita - Ooooooo Anita !!!!!
@seerider45 Merci pour votre commentaire !!! Ce Soundie date de 1942 , all the best , NICKY .
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Bloody hell ! Anita`s got an Evening Dress on ! ! ! . . . . Woof !
Ahh that crazy muggles takin' affect
My parents very much dislike this music, and my grandparents, who were in their 20s in this era, disliked it as well. My grandmother would ask me why I didn't listen to the music "kids my age" listened to. Lemme tell ya, if you think that a couple of pot and heroin head jive cats like Gene and Anita were bad, you have absolutely NO CLUE what trash the entertainers today are putting on. And yes, Gene, Anita, and Roy are mighty cool in my book. 👌👌👌
Anita looks MAD good here, my god.
It looks like she is the inspiration for Sugerpuss O'Shea in Ball of Fire.
I know it's a little gimmicky, but at 2:26… goosebumps. Sorry.
Karmadog ...Oh yeahhh. The sky really opens up on that one!
Roy Eldridge is the trumpeter.
Hey now Anita and gene,,,,,
How hep can you get???!!!
Cool, Daddy.
Estou procurando That's what you think e After you've gone do disco The Big Band Sessions com Anita O' Day e Gene Krupa Big Band. Agradeço muito quem me arrumar.
Cool white lady...She "gets" it, daddy-O
FilmsFor SMARTpeople cool lady period!! why put color into it? the great Roy Eldridge sure didn't...ya know , being hip means just that, being hip...so you get hip and you get groovy and don't follow the crowd,daddyo..
She was a real hep chick
The poster didn't put the performance date.
Roy Eldridge on trumpet
Originally released in 1942.
"Well blow Roy blow"
C19 antidote........play the wealth of great swing band tunes on You Tube.........day after day!
Roy Eldridge.!!
Gene Krupa was pretty hip compared to what most other bands were doing at the time.
Who are those two dancers? Don't they get credited?
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