Sweet Georgia Brown (live) by Anita O'Day
“The best day of Anita O'Day's life, she said -- the Newport Jazz Festival, 1958. She gave the festival's star performance while possibly high on heroin, according to the 2007 documentary about her life. The performance landed her on national magazine covers. As good as Ella. Afterward, she'd struggle with drug use and fall into relative obscurity. But we remember.”
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The best day of Anita O'Day's life, she said -- the Newport Jazz Festival, 1958. She gave the festival's star performance while possibly high on heroin, according to the 2007 documentary about her life. The performance landed her on national magazine covers. As good as Ella. Afterward, she'd struggle with drug use and fall into relative obscurity. But we remember.
it's been said she knocks 'em dead when she lands in town
From the classic Jazz movie "Jazz on a Summer's Day" about the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. The "high" point of her career.
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Newport Jazz Festival, 1958
