June Christy (1925-1990), American Cool Jazz Singer

[The Hersch]

Singing "Give Me The Simple Life"

[DonRocks]

Singing "Give Me the Simple Life".

Here's Ella Fitzgerald singing it *much* faster - Fitzgerald's recording is 1:43 of singing; Christy's is 2:04. Christy had - for this piece at least - a much more unadorned, straightforward, "cooler jazz" style.

[The Hersch]

The June Christy recording is from her LP "Gone for the Day", 1957. Ella Fitzgerald at Montreux in 1969 was accompanied by the Tommy Flanagan Trio. I had the pleasure and privilege of seeing Ella with the Tommy Flanagan Trio live at Symphony Hall in Boston in (I think) 1972, maybe 1973, on a triple bill with Herbie Mann's group (meh) and the Oscar Peterson Trio. Quite an evening.