C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Ernestine Anderson
Never Make Your Move Too Soon from the album of the same name (h/t miss kitty)
More Ernestine Anderson here, here and here.
Jazz vocalist Ernestine Anderson, who once worked with Quincy Jones and Ray Charles, is facing foreclosure on her home in Seattle after falling behind more than $30,000 in payments and penalties, public records show.
Family and friends of the singer are pleading for $45,000 in donations to save her Central District home, reports the Associated Press.
James Kelly, president of the Urban League of Seattle, said counselors will try to find out how Anderson got a loan that now asks for a monthly payment of $5,000. Gayton said Anderson's monthly income is $1,000 from Social Security, and at her age of 79, her performances are limited
Ms. Anderson has only until June 30 to come up with a payment or lose her home. An account has been set up at Bank of America. Donations can be made at any branch to The Ernestine Anderson Fund.
About the last two weeks the late night club has sucked,
Mentioning names of people I never heard of
With record sales primarily to family members.
ysbaddaden-
Dude, you are sooo wrong! Last night's killed...but I post that one a lot anyway...Otis Redding on Sunday? Yeah, Dock Of The Bay sold like 3235 copies...
The Saints
River Deep Mountain High
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Expand your horizons! Poke your eyes out!
Angry Samoans
Lights Out
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Actually, the name Ernestine Anderson is one that is well known among jazz enthusiasts. The number of records that she has sold is not indicative of how talented she truly is.
Esquivel
Mucha Muchacha
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Erroll@4-
It rarely is.
Esquerita
The Voola
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Jack Kittel
Psycho
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
The Scientists
We Had Love
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
ysbaddaden, and other arrogant, ill-informed neophytes:
Your comments stir more pity for you than ire. Ernestine Anderson is one of the luminaries of the uniquely American form of music, jazz. Her current plight is exemplary of so much of what is currently unconscionable in the contemporary social structure of America. An inability to honor our elder citizens with a safe and secure retirement should shame us mercilessly; instead, we boast our ignorance ("...people I never heard of..."), whine that they 'suck,' and insult an audience better informed than ourselves. Your comments make me sad, just ... sad.
Moderator,
If I have overstepped boundaries, I apologize.
Respectfully,
Horst
ysbaddaden @ 1:
YS that says more about you than anything else.
She's worked with all sorts, Quincy Jones, Johnny Otis and many others. Made 30 albums. 4 grammy noms.
I was fortunate to see her live in small jazz clubs around Seattle in the 70s and 80s. ANd she does loads of benefits, which don't pay. She's a wonderful entertainer. And a hard working woman who has always made her living making music
If I had 45k, I'd give it to her.
4 Erroll Says: Actually, the name Ernestine Anderson is one that is well known among jazz enthusiasts. The number of records that she has sold is not indicative of how talented she truly is.
I could go along with that.
I'm still a Cranes fan.
That had virtually no radio play so I suspect weak record sales.
I'm on my dial-up at home, but go to youtube and enter their song Starblood.
Another problem is I can't listen to this at work, and at home a dial-up doesn't cut it.
I'm not a fan of modern jazz, which I presume she is.
I like Scott Joplin, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, and Rudy Vallee (sp?).
For women I like Mehelia Jackson, and whoever it was that sang Am I Blue?
Plastic Bertrand
Ca Plane Por Moi
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Pour
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
ysbaddaden @ 13:
She's been singing since the late 40s, early 50s. She's closing in on 80 years old. I don't know what you mean by 'modern jazz' but come back to this thread when you aren't on dial up and grab an earful...
13 ysbaddaden- One of these?
Libby Holman Singing "Am I Blue?"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5HssG1ndtNM&feature=related
Ethel Waters - Am I Blue
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j2b5eM7lrDw
Billy Holliday covered it too, couldn't find it on Youtube.
Jobim/Gilberto/Getz(?)
Corcovado
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
ooh, miss kitty, your sharp claws are scratching the right grooves tonight ...
grrowlll (Eartha Kitt sounds) ...
19 calgarylady - You may like this!
Eartha Kitt AIN'T MISBEHAVEN
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z4aKBz5huZQ
Eartha Kitt with Friends Santa Baby
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xOMmSbxB_Sg&feature=related
aah, Eartha Kitt ... ooh, lafin gas, I thank you ! That lady has talent. Big time.
Through al the BS above I would think the most important issue is that Ernestine at 79 doesn't lose her home.
Great artists many times have a way of losing them selves financially. She is a great artist in an art form that much of America doesn't
give a shit about and should.It was invented here and is one of our great exports.Most of the world knows this,We don't.
Artists like Ernestine are the masters of the music and deserve to be treated as so.
Andy K Jong II, thanks for the great tunes ... I've been busy listening to them all tonight ... most excellent ... I salute you.
I live in Seattle and played a couple of gigs with Ernestine in the last few years, one was a Katrina victims' benefit. At 75 she could still sing like crazy and is a really sweet person. I hadn't heard about this but I'm outraged that she is expected to pay 5 grand a month for her little place. She's definitely not "modern jazz" she can do standards but at heart she is a blues singer.
On a related note, Countrywide loans is currently having their license revoked by the state of Washington for allegedly deceptive loan practices with minority borrowers... maybe their the ones holding Ernestine's paper.
Andy K Jong Il @ 18:
Did you ever hear the version on Red Hot & Rio, (one of the AIDS benefit collections)? Tracy Thorne of Everything But the Girl... pretty cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPsqbsl_eNY&feature=related
Horst @ 9:
Horst:
Thanks for that man - tell it like it is
Andy K Jong Il @ 7:
The Sonics
Psycho
Horst @ 9:
Totally agree. Horst, that was beautiful. This generation doesn't seem to understand that she's from an era where singers ACTUALLY SANG. Artists didn't over rely on sound engineers to mask their limited range with an array of cheesy audio effects, or cheap publicity gimmicks like "accidental" exposures of body parts.
It's an absolute shame...
Rick Danko- Driftin' Away
http://youtube.com/watch?v=meVfHv2Blk0
Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris - In My Hour of Darkness
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V2LtJ7AKUrc
Townes Van Zandt
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BYK-jNZ0xhQ&feature=related
Johnny Cash God's Gonna Cut You Down
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1e0EQlQXoEo
Charlie Musselwhite.
I meant Benny Goodman, not Tommy Dorsey.
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