RARA-AVIS: Re: Femme Fatale

Ted White (tedwhite@compusnet.com)
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:45:40 -0500 Jeff Lander wants a suitable song for a singer in a 1929 speakeasy.
But the kind of torch singer he describes (using something *like* "I
Got It Bad And That Ain't Good" or "Embraceable You"; a "Keely Smith
type") is far more typical of the forties than the twenties. I'd
suggest checking out some Bessie Smith pieces; the most torrid female
singers of the twenties were black and those who imitated them.

Sorry you lost that one, Fred, but 'tis better to be a runner up than
not nominated at all.

--Ted White

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