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"Divaville Lounge" with Sarah O (archive)

step into the lounge!

Sunday, October 12, 2014 | 14:00 to 16:00 | jazz/pop vocalists

http://www.divavillelounge.org

Artist	Song	Album	Label	Comments
Eartha Kitt	Somebody Bad Stole De Wedding Bells	Legendary	BMG	today on Divaville Lounge, a celebration of gay composers & performers in honor of the historic marriage decision
Dolores Gray	There'll Be Some Changes Made	Warm Brandy	DRG
Frank Sinatra	Get Me To the Church On Time	Sinatra At the Sands	Reprise

Nelson Riddle	C'est Magnifique	Oklahoma/Can Can		next up: a set of songs by gay composer/lyricist Cole Porter
Louis Armstrong	Just One of Those Things	Night and Day: The Cole Porter Songbook	Verve
Anita O'Day	Love for Sale	Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter	Verve
Frank Sinatra	I Get a Kick Out of You	Songs for Young Lovers & Swing Easy	Capitol
Mel Torme	It's De-Lovely	The Bethlehem Years	Bethlehem Archive
Cole Porter	Anything Goes	American Songbook Series, Cole Porter	Smithsonian	Porter singing and piano, rec. 1934

Django Reinhardt	What Is This Thing Called Love?	Djangology		next up: lesbian blues and jazz singers
Ma Rainey	Prove It On Me	The Complete 1928 Recordings in Chronological Order	Document Records	this song was allegedly written about a real life incident in 1925 when Rainey was arrested for being at a lesbian party
Geeshie Wiley & LV Thomas	Last Kind Words Blues	78"	Paramount	it was only recently discovered that Wiley and Thomas were lesbians
Ethel Waters	Stormy Weather	Cocktail Hour	Columbia River	Waters kept her lesbianism hidden & even managed to keep it out of all biographies written during her lifetime
Alberta Hunter	Someday, Sweetheart	Alberta Hunter, Vol. 4	Document Records	Hunter also carefully concealed her lesbian identity
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm	Jump Children	The Best of The International Sweethearts of Rhythm		trumpet & vocals Tiny Davis. She was so good she was recruited by Louis Armstrong for his band, but she preferred to continue performing with women

Artie Shaw Orchestra	Begin the Beguine	Begin the Beguine	Membran	next up: songs about marriage! Plus a great request
Sammy Davis Jr. o/ Buddy Rich	What Kind of Fool Am I?	The Sounds of '66	Collector's Choice	not quite in the theme, but a great request!
Peggy Lee	Love and Marriage	Ole a la Lee!	Capitol
Pearl Bailey	Legalize My Name	Takes Two to Tango	ASV
Cab Calloway	Don't Falter at the Altar	Are You Hep to the Jive?	Sony

Woody Herman	Bijou	Big Band Jazz, Vol IV		arr. gay composer, arranger & pianist Ralph Burns. next up: gay composer BIlly Strayhorn!
Duke Ellington Orchestra	Take the 'A' Train	The Blanton-Webster Band	RCA	Strayhorn met Duke Ellington when he was a teenager and worked for Ellington for his entire career. Strayhorn was openly gay in the 1940s & the Ellington family accepted him totally: they treated him like a member of the family and treated his partner Aaron Bridgers like a son-in-law
Duke Ellington Orchestra	Chelsea Bridge	The Blanton-Webster Band	RCA	Strayhorn wanted to be a classical composer but turned to jazz because the segregation of the music industry made it impossible for him to get a classical education.
Julia Lee	Lotus Blossom	1927-1946	Classics
Billy Strayhorn (vocal and piano)	Lush LIfe	Lush Life	Red Baron	this was Strayhorn's most personal song, written before he met Ellington. the Ellington orchestra never recorded it & Strayhorn reportedly hated all other band's recordings of this song.
Ella Fitzgerald o/ Duke Ellington	Something to Live For	Duke: The Last Jam Session	Verve	check out the movie about this tour, "Ella and Duke at the Cote d'Azur". Strayhorn never talks on camera, but he is in many scenes. it was filmed shortly before his death. Also look for the movie Paris Blues: Strayhorn's partner Aaron Bridgers appears as the piano player in the band
Duke Ellington Orchestra	The Star-Crossed Lovers	Such Sweet Thunder	Columbia	this was originally written by Strayhorn as "Pretty GIrl" and repurposed for the Shakespeare suite in 1957

DUke Ellington Orchestra	Satin Doll	The Complete Capitol Recordings	Mosaic	up next: gay lyricist Lorenz Hart
Freddy Martin Orchestra v/ Merv Griffin	Manhattan	Radio & Recordings Rarities		Rodgers & Hart's first hit
Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney	I Wish I Was in Love Again	American Songbook Series: Rodgers and Hart	Smithsonian
Sammy Davis Jr.	I Married an Angel	Yes I Can!	Rhino
Frank Sinatra	The Lady is a Tramp	The Capitol Years	Capitol
Chet Baker	My Funny Valentine	Best of Chet Baker Sings	Blue Note

Artie Shaw Orchestra	Thou Swell	Begin the Beguine	Membran	up next: gay composer Noel Coward
Noel Coward	A Room With a View	Revue and War Years	JSP
Noel Coward	Mad Dogs and Englishmen	Revue and War Years	JSP	this and "The Last Time I Saw Paris" were his most famous songs
Noel Coward	The Last Time I Saw Paris	The Entertainers of WWII
Noel Coward	Let's Do It	The Noel Coward Album	Sony	recorded in Vegas in the 1960s, this is a good example of Coward's dry sense of humor & his connections: most of the celebrities he sings about were friends of his
Billy Tipton	Sweet Georgia Brown	Sweet Georgia Brown		Tipton was born a woman but changed his name and lived as a man. He was married and adopted children, who didn't know until his death that he was biologically female

Ella Fitzgerald	Easy to Love	The Cole Porter Songbook	Verve