Gypsy Recording Starring Annie Ross

[dannilupone]

Posted: 8/30/08 at 8:58pm

Since the new cast of GYPSY came out this week (thank god i love it) I decided to visit all my other GYPSY cast recordings, needless to say its been a very GYPSY week. Then I started poking around the old information super highway and came across the Annie Roos recording of GYPSY. For those of you who don't know, Annie Ross was a jazz singer/writer. Her most famous song TWISTED was recorded by Bette Midler and Joni Mitchell. Anyways I remember seeing this recording at FOOTLIGHT RECORDS (god i miss that place) and had always been curious. Has anyone heard this recording. what do you think, is it worth 6.95 plus shipping??

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/30/08 at 8:59pm

It's boring.

[sondheimgeek]

Posted: 8/30/08 at 9:39pm

I have to agree. I can't really say I loved it. It just didn't appeal to me.

[KJisgroovy]

Posted: 8/30/08 at 10:04pm

First of all, the cd is not really that interesting... not in a musical theater sense and not in a jazz sense.

Second... Annie Ross still is a jazz singer. Your use of "was" implies that she has either retired or died. She hasn't done either. Certainly she performs less frequently than she used to... but being in her late 70's this makes a degree of sense. Also, she isn't most famous for Twisted... though it was sung quite a lot in the 70's... but for being a member of Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross... an extremely influential jazz vocal group.

Also... her aunt was Ella Logan... which makes a kind of sense.


kmc