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In her earliest recordings, Anita O'Day was the featured vocalist with the big bands of Gene Krupa (1941-1942 and 1945-1946) and Stan Kenton (1944). In the 1940s, Columbia and Capitol Records released the recordings of Krupa and Kenton, respectively, on 78 rpm disks with one song per side. In later decades the tracks were anthologized in albums in other media.
With Stan Kenton
In her first years as a solo act, Anita O'Day recorded several dozen live and in-studio songs, including ten tracks produced by Bob Thiele in Fall 1947 for the Signature label.
| Recorded | Album title | Label | Issued |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1947+ | Anita O'Day Specials | Signature | 1951 |
| Singin' and Swingin' | Coral | 1953 |
Anita O'Day sang with small and large studio ensembles for the Clef and Norgran labels formed by Norman Granz.
| Year | Album title | US chart | UK chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Anita O'Day Collates | ||
| 1954 | Anita O'Day Sings Jazz | ||
| 1954 | Songs By Anita O'Day | ||
| 1955 | Anita O'Day | ||
| 1956 | An Evening with Anita O'Day |
This time period brought O'Day to the attention of the Jazz world, making 14 records. O'Day became the first artist to record for Norman Granz's newly formed Verve Records.
| Year | Album title | US chart | UK chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Anita (Japanese title This is Anita) | ||
| 1957 | Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day | ||
| 1957 | The Lady Is a Tramp | ||
| 1957 | Anita Sings the Most | ||
| 1958 | Anita O'Day at Mister Kelly's (live) | ||
| 1958 | Anita Sings the Winners | ||
| 1959 | Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter with Billy May | ||
| 1959 | Cool Heat | ||
| 1960 | Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart | ||
| 1960 | Waiter, Make Mine Blues | ||
| 1961 | Trav'lin' Light | ||
| 1962 | All the Sad Young Men | ||
| 1962 | Time for 2 (with Cal Tjader) | ||
| 1963 | Anita O'Day & the Three Sounds (with The Three Sounds) | ||
| 1964 | Incomparable! | ||
| 2007 | Live in Tokyo '63 ( Released Posthumously ) (Live) |
Spending several years kicking her drug and alcohol habit, O'Day re-emerged onto the music scene in 1970.
| Year | Album title | US chart | UK chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Recorded Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival (Live) |
O'Day founded Emily Records, named after her dog, in 1975. [1] This time period would document her strong comeback, with her first studio recordings, since leaving Verve Records in 1963. Most of her recordings in the 1970s would take place in Japan, as jazz became popular in the country.
| Year | Album title | US chart | UK chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | I Get a Kick Out of You | ||
| 1975 | My Ship | ||
| 1976 | Live at Mingo's (Live) | ||
| 1978 | Mello' Day | ||
| 1978 | Skylark - Live at Club Sometime (Live) | ||
| 1978 | Angel Eyes | ||
| 1979 | Anita O'Day Live at the City (Live) | ||
| 1989 | In a Mellow Tone | ||
| 1991 | At Vine St. Live (Live) | ||
| 1993 | Live in Person (Live) | ||
| 1993 | Rules of the Road | ||
| 1993 | Wave: Live at Ronnie Scott's (Live) | ||
| 2006 | Indestructible! |
| Year | Album title | US chart | UK chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Anita O'Day | ||
| 1978 | There's Only One |
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