This Is Anita Explained

This is Anita
Type:	studio
Artist:	Anita O'Day
Cover:	thisisanita.jpg
Released:	1956
Recorded:	December 6–8, 1955 in Hollywood
Genre:	Vocal jazz
Length:	37:43
Label:	Verve
Producer:	Norman Granz, Anita O'Day
Prev Title:	An Evening with Anita O'Day
Prev Year:	1955
Next Title:	Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day
Next Year:	1956

This is Anita is a reissue of Anita, a 1956 album by Anita O'Day that was re-released in 1962.^[1]

It was arranged and conducted by Buddy Bregman and was the first in a series of albums recorded by O'Day for Verve. Norman Granz was the producer on this album, and it was the first album to be released under his new label, thus paving the way for the future recordings from Verve, and this album was O'Day's first stint from the big band recordings of the 1940s and early 1950s.

Track listing

Side One

1. "You're the Top" (Cole Porter) — 2:24
2. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) — 3:13
3. "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Manning Sherwin, Eric Maschwitz) — 4:00
4. "Who Cares?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) — 3:14
5. "I Can't Get Started" (I. Gershwin, Vernon Duke) — 3:53
6. "Fine and Dandy" (Kay Swift, Paul James (pseudonym for James Paul Warburg) — 2:25

Side Two

1. "As Long as I Live" (Harold Arlen) — 3:39
2. "No Moon at All" (Redd Evans, David Mann) — 2:28
3. "Time After Time" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) — 4:06
4. "I'll See You in My Dreams" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) — 2:50
5. "I Fall In Love Too Easily" (Cahn, Styne) — 2:54
6. "Beautiful Love" (Haven Gillespie, Wayne King, Egbert Van Alstyne, Victor Young) — 2:37

Personnel

• Anita O'Day – vocals
• Milt Bernhart – trombone
• Joe Howard – trombone
• Lloyd Ulyate – trombone
• Si Zentner – trombone
• Paul Smith – piano, celeste
• Corky Hale – harp
• Barney Kessel – guitar
• Joe Mondragon – double bass
• Alvin Stoller – drums

Notes and References

1. Neal Umnphred, Goldmine's Price Guide to Collectible Jazz Albums, 1949-69, Iola, WI: Krause, 1994, pp. 378, 379.