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Eartha Kitt: In Person at the Plaza
Artist: Eartha Kitt
Genre: Rock & Pop ~ Classic Pop Vocals
Label: GNP/Crescendo
Catalog No: GNP 2008 Release Date: 1965
Number of Discs: 1
Studio/Live: Live
Mono/Stereo: StereoTrack List
Sell Me!
I Wanna Be Evil!
Touch, The
Waray, Waray
How Could You Believe Me?
Zharabee
Champagne Taste
C'Est Si Bon
C'Mon a My House
Old Fashioned Girl
Rumania, Rumania
cond ex
Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt In Person at the Plaza
GNP Crescendo
1990
The only way to appreciate Kitt is to experience her pouncing and purring in her cabaret act. This well-recorded date from 1965 is perhaps her most representative, all-around satisfying performance. It captures her persona as a dangerous Circe who requires men with deep pockets, disposing of them like tissue paper after they've broken the bank on her, yet confessing that she really prefers "dirt" to "diamonds and gold" (the "inside" part of the whole joke). As Kitt liked to say following the Madonna hit song, the original "material girl" was a character invented by Kitt herself. "At the Plaza" also reveals what a talented multilingual actress the (loudly) self-proclaimed "evil woman" was ("Come-on-a-My House" is hysterical in Japanese; "Rumania" is a Yiddish tour-de-force).
If you want to complete the picture, simply pick up two additional tunes and read one of her three autobiographies. The tunes are "Monotonous," a 1952 put-on by an independent spirit who is "bored" by what the rest of us yearn for, and "Santa Baby," her lone mega-hit, made possible by the success of "Monotonous"' the year before.
Kitt's life story is remarkably similar to Billie Holiday's, Edith Piaf's, and especially Nina Simone's. A Southern poor girl, of mixed black and white heritage, living and working on a former cotton plantation, shipped to New York, where she was exploited and slept in subways. But then that exceptional independent spirit and will—unlike the addictive personalities of Holiday and Piaf and superseding even Simone's determination—carried her to international stardom. It's unlikely the voice alone is going to produce new fans of Eartha (who, like the preceding vocalists, had cross-generational appeal to the gay community and repaid in kind with numerous benefits for AIDs-related causes). But making the acquaintance of the whole phenomenon that was Kitt is worth the effort.
After her much-publicized denunciation of the Viet Nam war while an invited guest at the White House in 1968, she became, in effect, exiled from America until ten years later, when President Jimmy Carter invited her back as a sign that all was forgiven. To say that she made the most of the homecoming would be an understatement.
Tracks and Personnel
Purr-Fect: The Eartha Kitt Collection
Tracks: Just an Old Fashioned Girl; Je Cherche un Homme (I Want a Man); I Want to Be Evil; Mink, Schmink; Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love); C'Est Si Bon; Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore; Monotonous; My Heart Belongs to Daddy; Under the Bridges of Paris; I Wantcha Around; Lilac Wine; Somebody Bad Stole de Wedding Bell (Who's Got de Ding Dong?); Thursday's Child; Angelitos Negros; Lovin' Spree; Toujour Gai; Uska Dara (A Turkish Tale); Proceed With Caution; Blues; Heel; Santa Baby.
Personnel: Earth Kitt: vocals; various instrumental personnel.
Eartha Kitt In Person at the Plaza
Tracks: Sell Me!; I Wanna Be Evil!; Waray, Waray; Touch; How Could You Believe Me?; Zhara Bee, Zha Zha; Champagne Taste; C'mon a My House!; Old Fashioned Girl; C'est Si BonRumania, Rumania.
Personnel: Earth Kitt: vocals; David Saxon: musical director; uncredited instrumental personnel.
Artist: Eartha Kitt
Genre: Rock & Pop ~ Classic Pop Vocals
Label: GNP/Crescendo
Catalog No: GNP 2008 Release Date: 1965
Number of Discs: 1
Studio/Live: Live
Mono/Stereo: StereoTrack List
Sell Me!
I Wanna Be Evil!
Touch, The
Waray, Waray
How Could You Believe Me?
Zharabee
Champagne Taste
C'Est Si Bon
C'Mon a My House
Old Fashioned Girl
Rumania, Rumania
cond ex
Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt In Person at the Plaza
GNP Crescendo
1990
The only way to appreciate Kitt is to experience her pouncing and purring in her cabaret act. This well-recorded date from 1965 is perhaps her most representative, all-around satisfying performance. It captures her persona as a dangerous Circe who requires men with deep pockets, disposing of them like tissue paper after they've broken the bank on her, yet confessing that she really prefers "dirt" to "diamonds and gold" (the "inside" part of the whole joke). As Kitt liked to say following the Madonna hit song, the original "material girl" was a character invented by Kitt herself. "At the Plaza" also reveals what a talented multilingual actress the (loudly) self-proclaimed "evil woman" was ("Come-on-a-My House" is hysterical in Japanese; "Rumania" is a Yiddish tour-de-force).
If you want to complete the picture, simply pick up two additional tunes and read one of her three autobiographies. The tunes are "Monotonous," a 1952 put-on by an independent spirit who is "bored" by what the rest of us yearn for, and "Santa Baby," her lone mega-hit, made possible by the success of "Monotonous"' the year before.
Kitt's life story is remarkably similar to Billie Holiday's, Edith Piaf's, and especially Nina Simone's. A Southern poor girl, of mixed black and white heritage, living and working on a former cotton plantation, shipped to New York, where she was exploited and slept in subways. But then that exceptional independent spirit and will—unlike the addictive personalities of Holiday and Piaf and superseding even Simone's determination—carried her to international stardom. It's unlikely the voice alone is going to produce new fans of Eartha (who, like the preceding vocalists, had cross-generational appeal to the gay community and repaid in kind with numerous benefits for AIDs-related causes). But making the acquaintance of the whole phenomenon that was Kitt is worth the effort.
After her much-publicized denunciation of the Viet Nam war while an invited guest at the White House in 1968, she became, in effect, exiled from America until ten years later, when President Jimmy Carter invited her back as a sign that all was forgiven. To say that she made the most of the homecoming would be an understatement.
Tracks and Personnel
Purr-Fect: The Eartha Kitt Collection
Tracks: Just an Old Fashioned Girl; Je Cherche un Homme (I Want a Man); I Want to Be Evil; Mink, Schmink; Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love); C'Est Si Bon; Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore; Monotonous; My Heart Belongs to Daddy; Under the Bridges of Paris; I Wantcha Around; Lilac Wine; Somebody Bad Stole de Wedding Bell (Who's Got de Ding Dong?); Thursday's Child; Angelitos Negros; Lovin' Spree; Toujour Gai; Uska Dara (A Turkish Tale); Proceed With Caution; Blues; Heel; Santa Baby.
Personnel: Earth Kitt: vocals; various instrumental personnel.
Eartha Kitt In Person at the Plaza
Tracks: Sell Me!; I Wanna Be Evil!; Waray, Waray; Touch; How Could You Believe Me?; Zhara Bee, Zha Zha; Champagne Taste; C'mon a My House!; Old Fashioned Girl; C'est Si BonRumania, Rumania.
Personnel: Earth Kitt: vocals; David Saxon: musical director; uncredited instrumental personnel.
