ANITA O'DAY - Swings Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hart With Billy May And His Orchestra (2011) RM / FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Most of this CD reissue is taken from sessions in April 1959 on which Anita O'Day interprets Cole Porter songs while accompanied by some rather rambunctious big-band arrangements from Billy May. While her emotional range is wider than Ella Fitzgerald's (who had previously recorded her much better-known Cole Porter Songbook), strangely enough O'Day's voice does not sound as strong on the Billy May set as it does on the six "bonus" cuts which are Cole Porter songs she recorded on other occasions (from 1952-1960). Still this CD does have its moments with highlights including "I Get a Kick out of You," "All of You," "It's Delovely," "You're the Top" and two versions of "Love for Sale." by Scott Yanow
Tracklist:
1 Just One Of Those Things 2:09
2 Love For Sale 2:44
3 All Of You 1:43
4 Easy To Love 2:03
5 You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To 1:51
6 I Get A Kick Out Of You 2:24
7 I Love You 1:59
8 I've Got You Under My Skin 1:48
9 Get Out Of Town 2:32
10 What Is This Thing Called Love? 2:32
11 Night And Day 2:03
12 It's De-Lovely 2:06
13 Falling In Love With Love 1:27
14 Johnny One Note 1:53
15 Lover 2:02
16 Have You Met Miss Jones? 1:53
17 Little Girl Blue 3:01
18 Spring Is Here 2:44
19 It Never Entered My Mind 2:24
20 Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered 4:19
21 I've Got Five Dollars 1:47
22 To Keep My Love Alive 3:13
23 Ten Cents A Dance 2:17
24 I Could Write A Book 2:09
Credits:
Arranged By, Conductor – Billy May
Performer – Billy May And His Orchestra
Note
Two album compilation of 1959's Anita O'Day with Billy May - Swings Cole Porter and 1960's
Anita O'Day And Billy May - Swing Rodgers And Hart, although with different track order.