[Dixielandjazz] Doris Day (!)--pop/jazz continuum

[Charles Suhor]

I always felt that Doris Day was a "non-jazz" singer with impeccable taste and superior musicianship. She was one of those pop singers, like Rosemary Clooney and Frankie Laine, whose best works were somewhere on a continuum that tilts toward jazz. I'm thinking of DD on "Put 'em in a Box?" and "Secret Love"; the Clooney LP with Goodman? Laine on "Rosetta" and "Music, Maestro, Please." 

Can you-all think of other pop singers who did strong jazz(-like) performances? I take Tony Bennett, Sinatra, Connick, and Michael Buble as automatic. The categories sometimes melt, or meld.

Charlie

On Feb 16, 2015, at 1:21 PM, Gerard Bielderman wrote:

> Way back in 1997 I purchased a cheap cd  on the British Pulse label (PLS 
> CD
> 213) called Doris Day - Blue Skies. But of course there are no
> discographical details.
> The recordings seem to be from around 1953 and on 10 of the 22 tracks she 
> is
> accompanied by the Page Cavanaugh Trio (I think).
> Is there somewhere on the internet a listing of Columbia 78 or 45 singles
> complete with matrix numbers and recording dates?
> I found on Wikipedia a partial list of Doris Day records but strangely
> enough there is no mention of all these 22 tracks.
> Yes I know, this is not traditional jazz, for me it is - let's say -
> nostalgia....
> 
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