Day vs. Etting
And here they are... Doris Day and Ruth Etting, side by side. Comments?
Doris Day
• Love Me Or Leave Me
• Ten Cents A Dance
• Mean To Me
• Shakin' The Blues Away
• Sam, The Old Accordion Man
• At Sundown
• It All Depends On You
Ruth Etting
• Love Me Or Leave Me
• Ten Cents A Dance
• Mean To Me
• Shakin' The Blues Away
• Sam, The Old Accordion Man
• At Sundown
• It All Depends On You
TIME Magazine - June 27, 1955
Ruth Etting (Columbia LP). One of the all time torch-singing queens in reissues inspired by the current film about her life, Love Me or Leave Me (TIME, June 6). Ruth Etting is past mistress of the musical affectations of the jazz age-the faint hiccup, the tear in the larynx, the lilting dash into a phrase and the heartbroken sigh as it ends. Today, some of it sounds laughable, but Songstress Etting's languorous sweetness and warmth make most of it sound just fine. Songs range from the razzmatazz rhythms of Shaking the Blues Away and At Sundown to the seductive Mean to Me and I'll Never Be the Same. Columbia has also released songs from the sound track of the Etting film, with Doris Day warbling the lead role. It is replete-in fact it is gorged-with soaring strings, a chorus of vocalizing angels, and a rhythm section that explodes like the 1812 Overture. Doris Day is a competent singer, but beside Ruth Etting she is frozen custard.