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Flying High - Big Band Canaries Who Soared

Label: Jazz at the Ballroom
Released: 2024
Track listing: On the Sunny Side of the Street; Secret Love; I Don't Know Enough About You; I Only Have Eyes For You; All of Me; Lellaby of the Leaves; Sweet Georgia Brown; Why Don't You Do Right; What a Difference a Day Makes; The One I Love; Social Call; Yopu Belong to Me; The Man I Love; Tea for Two; Exactly Like You.

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Champian Fulton: Flying High - Big Band Canaries Who Soared

Read "Flying High - Big Band Canaries Who Soared" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
July 10, 2024

If memory serves, Woody Herman was once quoted as saying “it's tough to be a canary," or words to that effect. “Canary" of course, was just one of the many euphemisms used for female big band singers in the 1930s and 1940s. Herman's pointed observation was spot on. He thought, correctly, that most female singers were ...