Bad But Beautiful (Remastered) Eartha Kitt

• 1 All I Want Is All There Is And Then Some 03:18
• 2 Do It Again! 02:32
• 3 It's So Nice To Have A Man Around The House 02:42
• 4 La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) 02:39
• 5 Lola Lola 02:44
• 6 A Lady Loves 02:34
• 7 Love For Sale 02:38
• 8 Always True To You In My Fashion 02:10
• 9 Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets) 02:16
• 10 Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend 01:50
• 11 Never On Sunday 01:53
• 12 Good Little Girls 02:37
• Total Runtime 29:53

Info for Bad But Beautiful (Remastered)

This 1967 set, recorded live at Boston’s Jazz Workshop, showcases virtuoso guitarist Szabó – a veteran of Chico Hamilton’s and Charles Lloyd’s bands – at the top of his game on a diverse program featuring standards (“What Is This Thing Called Love”) and pop hits (“The Beat Goes On”) as well as the original and psychedelic-tinged jam, “Space.”

Eartha Kitt's life was one of the more fascinating and uniquely American stories in popular music. Born in 1927 in South Carolina to an African-American and Cherokee mother and a, presumed, white father whose identity has never been confirmed -- it's been speculated that he was one of the adult children of owners of the cotton plantation where Kitt was born -- Kitt was raised by two different families before moving to NYC in the late '30s/early '40s to be reunited with her biological mother. There she took quickly to the arts and began working in the world's first African-American modern dance group and cabaret, The Katherine Dunham Company, before being cast in Orson Welles' staging of Dr. Faustus as Helen of Troy. Though she was a talented actress and dancer, Kitt is perhaps best remembered for her distinctive voice, which is in fine form on 1962's Bad But Beautiful. Assisted by the legendary arranger, Billy May, Kitt works her way through 12 classic numbers here in the sultry and swinging manner that she is famous for.

Eartha Kitt

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