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RE: Look what's sitting on the table with the pretty lady ...

This is a great album btw. One of Diana's best imho and there is an added bonus in that side 4 is a blank. So now those who buy it will have another way to check their anti-skate setting. But Diana is really good on this one. She plays well, she sings well, and the songs were well chosen. Highly recommended.

It is interesting that the marketing department has always tried to sell her as a sex symbol. Irrespective of how any person perceives her looks, the idea that this approach might help sales to the jazz buying public seems ludicrous. Consider Lena Horne, a person generally conceded to have been one of the most beautiful women of her day. She was never given her due as a jazz singer. A fact that is very curious as anyone listening to her records can ascertain she was a marvelous stylist who put audiences in a spell with charisma, faultless taste, and a range only exceeded by Sarah Vaughn. One of the best of her era. Julie London comes to mind as another beautiful woman who, in consequence, was generally discounted for her singing prowess. She sang very well anyway. By contrast there are many women singers, never considered beautiful who are still selling records today like hot cakes. Billie, Sarah, Ella, Anita, Carmen etc.

I wonder if anyone in the marketing department is paying attention.


Edits: 05/08/17
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