Give Him the Ooh La La

Blossom Dearie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 23, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1957
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000007QK4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,342 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Blossom Dearie's second Verve album appears on CD for the first time here. This September 1957 quartet date with guitarist Herb Ellis, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Jo Jones puts Dearie front and center on a selection of 12 tunes cannily designed to put across both her innate musicality and a winningly innocent sexuality, which peaks on the Cole Porter title track. Also completely winning are versions of songs as well known as "Just One of Those Things" and "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" and as obscure as "Bang Goes the Drum (And You're in Love)." --Rickey Wright

Product Description

Japanese reissue of the jazz vocalist's 1958 album. Verve. 2004. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good one, September 18, 2000

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N. Dorward "obsessive reviewer" (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Give Him the Ooh La La (Audio CD)

A female jazz singer friend of mine claimed that every fan she knew of Blossom Dearie was a man. I can see how Dearie's winsome kewpie-doll voice might have a particular attraction for the opposite sex; yet in my experience just about anyone, of either sex, can get hooked on her work. This is a good album, if not quite Dearie's best: _Once Upon a Summertime_ is the better disc, with its classic renditions of ballads like "Manhattan"; yet this disc, despite the sprinkling of novelty numbers & its lighter (indeed, often frisky) feel, is also worth a listen. "Just One of Those Things" is an excellent uptempo rendition, showcasing Dearie's good sense of swing, & there's many worthwhile resuscitations of little-known tunes like "I Walk a Little Faster" & "Let Me Love You". I'm a little less keen on the French-themed tunes like the title track or "The Riviera", with their rather brittle wit; yet "Plus Je T'Embrasse" is charming. -- Jazz singing, like jazz playing, has never been about just technique--Dearie, like Billie Holiday or Helen Merrill or Mose Allison, shows how intrinsic intelligence, emotional nuance & musicality can beat out stellar pipes anytime.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It will resonate with your heart, March 15, 2004

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extreme budda "extreme_budda" (earth, galaxy universe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Give Him the Ooh La La (Audio CD)

Why I bought this album:
I first heard the song "Try your Wings" from the movie "My Life without Me" (great movie by the way)

I liked the song so much, I bought ~$800 of speakers so i could do her voice justice.

(just listen to the 30sec sample when it's 2am in the morning after 2 glass of Merlot, you will probably agree)

The rest of songs are pretty good too.

I have no idea why she is not well-known as Ella or Diana Krall.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply irresistible, December 25, 1999

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Hugo (Barcelona, Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Give Him the Ooh La La (Audio CD)

An excellent easy-listening jazz album performed by a unique singer. Her high-pitched, sweet and half-naive, half-spicy vocals, as well as the spare piano-based arrangements exquisitely enhance an original repertoire which is in general quite far from "the same as usual" standards. Blossom conveys a great tenderness in ballads as "Try you're wings" or "They say it's spring" and swings extremely well in songs as "Between the devil and the deep blue sea" or the title track. And she can also be so sexy in the cabaret-ish, French-language "Plus je t'embrasse", one of my favourite tracks. Charming!