Bright Moments Posted November 1, 2003 Report Posted November 1, 2003 i was listening this morning to one of my latest aquisitions, King Pleasure - Golden days, recorded June 20, 1960. Track 1 was Moody's mood for love and the liner notes state: "This is a new arrangement of the original 1952 King Pleasure record hit. The girl singer on the old record was Blossom Dearie. The young lady with Pleasure here must, unfortunately, remain anonymous." Who was she and why did she have to remain anonymous? My (weak) guess is Annie Ross. Surely the answer is out there! Who can solve this jazz mystery? B) Quote
JSngry Posted November 1, 2003 Report Posted November 1, 2003 That's really her name - Ann Onimus. Sort of a cult figure, but she turns up with surprising regularity... Quote
Michael Fitzgerald Posted November 1, 2003 Report Posted November 1, 2003 Are you sure about this, David? I find no mention of this in the Betty Carter bio by Bill Bauer. Blossom Dearie is listed on the 1952 King Pleasure record of "Moody's Mood" and listening to it (Prestige/OJC 217), I can confirm this. Bruyninckx and Lord discographies both say "unknown" for the 1960 one (which I don't own). Betty Carter does sing on the 1952 King Pleasure record of "Red Top" which is on the same OJC CD mentioned above. Mike Quote
mikeweil Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 This certainly does not sound sound like Annie Ross or Betty Carter to me. Must have been some of the countless L.A. studio singers. The Aladdin and UA sessions King Pleasure did had Ann Onimous on 'em, too ... Quote
Bright Moments Posted November 3, 2003 Author Report Posted November 3, 2003 are you guys really trying? come on! somebody should be able to solve this for us! Quote
mikeweil Posted November 3, 2003 Report Posted November 3, 2003 Too many options, I'm afraid .... Quote
brownie Posted November 4, 2003 Report Posted November 4, 2003 Gerry Wiggins might know. He led the band that backed King Pleasure. Quote
mikeweil Posted November 4, 2003 Report Posted November 4, 2003 The man who tutored Marilyn Monroe is expected to remember a girl singer on one one track out of a few thousand sessions he did ?!?!?! Quote
JSngry Posted November 4, 2003 Report Posted November 4, 2003 And what if she overdubbed? Would ANYBODY remember? How far back do Union sheets for recording sessions go? But what if she scabbed the date? Who produced this date, and who engineered it? Quote
mikeweil Posted November 5, 2003 Report Posted November 5, 2003 (edited) The UA session was produced by Alan Douglas and arranged by Teacho Wiltshire, recorded by Bill Schwartau at Sound Mixers in New York in September, 1962. The Aladdin session was recorded at Capitol Studios, L.A. in October, 1956, no engineer or producer credited. I'm pretty sure Michael Cuscuna would have found out if possible when preparing the Blue Note King Pleasure CD. The Golden Days session (originally on HiFiJazz, now owned by Fantasy) I have only on the old Prestige twofer LP, which says it was produced by David Axelrod, but gives neither engineer nor studio. Are these credited on the OJC reissue? Thus we have three versions of Moody's Mood For Love with Ann Onimous; only Blossom Dearie was credited on the first Prestige recording. The Ann Onimous singers do not sound like prolific jazz singers. If they had some importance, they would have insisted, like Jon Hendricks on the UA LP version of Don't Get Scared. BTW, by purchasing three CDs one has King Pleasure's entire recorded output: I'd say get the Blue Note before it's OOP, it has his rarest recordings. Edited November 6, 2003 by mikeweil Quote
Bright Moments Posted November 6, 2003 Author Report Posted November 6, 2003 thanks mike for that, at least we are getting somewhere! B) Quote
mikeweil Posted November 8, 2003 Report Posted November 8, 2003 ... but not any farther, I'm afraid. Did you post this on AAJ as well? Quote
Bright Moments Posted November 9, 2003 Author Report Posted November 9, 2003 nope. i'm afraid that i don't know what aaj is. Quote
jazzbo Posted November 9, 2003 Report Posted November 9, 2003 AAJ mentioned above is the bulletin board on the All About Jazz site: http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/index.php?s= May find an answer there (I'm not revealing whether I would lay any money down on the odds!) Quote
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