Jazz Articles

Margie Day: Dawn Of A New Day / Experience

by Nic Jones
July 21, 2008

Margie Day had already enjoyed a lengthy career prior to recording these two albums in the late 1960s, scoring top ten rhythm 'n' blues hits as the featured female vocalist with the Griffin Brothers band in 1951. In the intervening period of course, popular taste moved on apace, rendering her efforts here essentially as sides out of time. That's no bad thing however, as it makes the task of assessing her abilities as a singer of interpretative flair a whole ...