The discography of American singer, Anita O'Day, contains 24 studio albums, 12 live albums, 19 compilation albums, one box set, 14 extended plays (EP's) and 37 singles. Her first recordings were released as a featured vocalist in big bands, beginning with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra in 1941. Among her six debut releases, "Georgia on My Mind", "Just a Little Bit South of North Carolina" and "Let Me off Uptown" made the US pop chart, with the latter two making the top-10. O'Day had her highest-peaking US pop single with the number four "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine", recorded with Stan Kenton and His Orchestra in 1944. She returned to Krupa in 1945 and had two more US top-10 singles with "Chickery Chick" (1945) and "Boogie Blues" (1946). O'Day was then included on singles released by orchestras like Will Bradley, Ralph Burns and Benny Carter. In collaboration with the All Stars, she reached number 24 on the US pop chart in 1951 with "Tennessee Waltz".
O'Day's first studio albums were released in the 1950s decade, beginning with Songs by Anita O'Day (1954). The Verve record label issued 13 studio albums by O'Day between 1956 and 1964, beginning with Anita. At Verve, she was joined by several collaborators including Billy May on Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter with Billy May (1959), Jimmy Giuffre on Cool Heat (1959) and Cal Tjader on Time for 2 (1962). The label also issued her first live album in 1958 titled Anita O'Day at Mister Kelly's. Following her Verve albums, O'Day's next release would also be a live album titled Anita O'Day in Berlin (1971). The Trio label (based in Japan) issued two studio albums by O'Day during this time: Anita 1975 (1975) and My Ship(1976). The company also issued three live albums during the same period, including Live in Tokyo, 1975 (1976).
In 1979, the GNP Crescendo label released the studio album Mello'day, followed by the Emily label releasing several albums during the 1980s like Live at the City (1980), The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1982) and A Song for You (1984). A live album of O'Day's 1963 Japanese concert was issued by Polydor Records in 1985 titled Anita O'Day in Tokyo '63. Her final live album was issued in 1991 called At Vine St. Live. Studio albums by O'Day continued being issued, including In a Mellow Tone (1989), Rules of the Road (a 1993 collaboration with the Jack Sheldon Orchestra) and her final release Indestructible! (2006). Her 2013 compilation, Four Classic Albums, made the top 20 of the UK Jazz and Blues Chart.
Albums Studio albums + List of studio albums, showing all relevant details Title Album details Songs by Anita O'Day Released: 1954 Label: Norgran Formats: LP Anita Released: March 1956 Label: Verve Formats: LP Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day Released: February 1957 Label: Verve Formats: LP Anita Sings the Most Released: April 1958 Label: Verve Formats: LP Anita O'Day Sings the Winners Released: 1958 Label: Verve Formats: LP Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter with Billy May Released: 1959 Label: Verve Formats: LP Cool Heat Released: 1959 Label: Verve Formats: LP Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart Released: 1960 Label: Verve Formats: LP Waiter, Make Mine Blues Released: 1961 Label: Verve Formats: LP Trav'lin Light Released: 1961 Label: Verve Formats: LP All the Sad Young Men Released: 1962 Label: Verve Formats: LP Time for 2 Released: 1962 Label: Verve Formats: LP Anita O'Day & the Three Sounds Released: 1963 Label: Verve Formats: LP Incomparable! Released: 1964 Label: Verve Formats: LP Anita and Rhythm Section Released: 1971 Label: Anita O'Day/Glendale Formats: LP Anita 1975 Released: 1975 Label: Trio Formats: LP My Ship Released: 1976 Label: Trio Formats: LP There's Only One Released: 1978 Label: Dobre Formats: LP Mello'day Released: 1979 Label: GNP Crescendo Formats: LP The Night Has a Thousand Eyes Released: 1982 Label: Emily/Lob Formats: LP A Song for You Released: 1984 Label: Emily Formats: LP, cassette In a Mellow Tone Released: 1989 Label: DRG Formats: CD, cassette Rules of the Road Released: 1993 Label: Pablo Formats: CD Indestructible! Released: April 18, 2006 Label: Kayo Stereophonic Formats: CD
Live albums + List of live albums, showing all relevant details Title Album details Anita O'Day at Mister Kelly's Released: 1958 Label: Verve Formats: LP Anita O'Day in Berlin Released: 1971 Label: BASF/MPS Formats: LP Live in Tokyo, 1975 Released: 1976 Label: Trio Formats: LP Live at Mingo's Released: 1976 Label: Trio Formats: LP Skylark – Live at Sometime Released: 1978 Label: Trio Formats: LP Live at the City Released: 1980 Label: Emily Formats: LP Live at the City: The Second Set Released: 1982 Label: Emily Formats: LP Ao Vivo No 150 Night Club Released: 1984 Label: Estúdio Eldorado Formats: LP Anita O'Day in Tokyo '63 Released: 1985 Label: Polydor Formats: LP SS 'Wonderful Big Band Concert 1985 Released: 1985 Label: Emily Formats: LP Live at Ronnie Scott's, London Released: 1986 Label: Wadham/Hendring Formats: CD At Vine St. Live Released: 1991 Label: Disques Swing Formats: CD
Compilation albums + List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions, and other relevant details Title Album details Peak chart positionsUKJazz & Blues Anita O'Day Specials Released: 1951 Label: Signature Formats: LP — Singin' and Swingin' with Anita O'Day Released: 1953 Label: Coral Formats: LP — Anita O'Day Collates Released: September 1953 Label: Clef Formats: LP — The Lady Is a Tramp Released: 1957 Label: Verve Formats: LP — The Girl Friends Released: 1959 Label: Columbia/Harmony Formats: LP — The Jazz Stylings of Anita O'Day Released: 1966 Label: Verve Formats: LP — Drum Boogie Released: 1972 Label: CBS Formats: LP — Kenton's Girl Friends Released: 1973 Label: Capitol Formats: LP — Gene Krupa, His Orchestra and Anita O'Day featuring Roy Eldridge Released: 1974 Label: Columbia Formats: LP — The Big Band Sessions Released: 1979 Label: Verve Formats: LP, cassette — Uptown Released: 1990 Label: CBS Formats: LP, CD, cassette — I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out Released: 1991 Label: Sony Special Products Formats: CD, cassette — Compact Jazz: Anita O'Day Released: 1993 Label: Verve Formats: CD — Verve Jazz Masters 49 Released: 1995 Label: Verve Formats: CD — Jazz 'Round Midnight Released: 1997 Label: Verve Formats: CD — Let Me Up Off Uptown Released: 1999 Label: Columbia Formats: CD — Anita O'Day's Finest Hour Released: 2000 Label: Verve Formats: CD — The Diva Released: 2003 Label: Verve Formats: CD — Four Classic Albums Released: 2013 Label: Avid Formats: CD 19 "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
Extended plays + List of extended plays (EPs), showing all relevant details Title Album details Pagan Love Song Released: 1952 Label: Clef Formats: 10" EP Drum Boogie Released: 1956 Label: Verve Formats: 7" EP Anita Released: 1956 Label: Verve Formats: 7" EP Boogie Blues Released: 1957 Label: Columbia Formats: 7" EP Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day Released: 1957 Label: Verve Formats: 7" EP Anita O'Day Sings the Winners Released: 1958 Label: Verve Formats: 7" EP The Lady Is a Tramp Released: 1958 Label: Karusell Formats: 7" EP Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day Released: 1959 Label: Verve Formats: 7" EP Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day Released: 1959 Label: Verve Formats: 7" EP Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter with Billy May Released: 1959 Label: Verve Formats: 7" EP At Mister Kelly's Released: 1959 Label: Karusell Formats: 7" EP Jazz a Newport Released: 1960 Label: Barclay/Verve Formats: 7" EP Eee-o-Eleven Released: 1960 Label: Barclay/Verve Formats: 7" EP The Moon Looks Down and Laughs Released: 1961 Label: Verve Formats: 7" EP
Box sets + List of box sets, showing all relevant details Title Album details The Complete Anita O'Day Verve-Clef Sessions Released: 1999 Label: Mosaic Formats: 9-CD box set
Singles + List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details Title Year Peakchartpositions AlbumUS "Georgia on My Mind" 1941 18 rowspan="30" "Just a Little Bit South of North Carolina" 9 "Let Me off Uptown" 10 "Stop! The Red Light's On" — Two in Love" — "Thanks for the 'Boogie' Ride" — "Rumba Fox Trot" 1942 — "Skylark" — "Pass the Bounce" — "Fightin' Doug MacArthur" — "That's What You Think" — "Massachusetts" — "Side by Side" 1944 — "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine" 4 "Gotta Be Gettin'" — "Are You Livin' Old Man" 1945 — "(Did You Ever Get) That Feeling In The Moonlight" — "Chickery Chick" 10 "Harriet (A Western Novelty Song)" — "Hop, Skip, and Jump" 1946 — "Boogie Blues" 9 "Opus No. 1" 1947 — "Ace in the Hole" — "What Is This Thing Called Love" — "Travelin' Man" 1948 — "How High the Moon" — "I Ain't Gettin' Any Younger" — "Blues for Bojangles" 1950 — "Tennessee Waltz" 24 "I Apologize" 1951 — "Pagan Love Song" 1953 — Anita O'Day Sings Jazz "Vaya Con Dios" — "Rock and Roll Waltz" 1956 — Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day "The Getaway and the Chase" — "You're the Top" — Anita "Night and Day" 1959 — Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porterwith Billy May "Ain't No Big Thing" 1966 — rowspan="2" "The Easy Life" 1988 — "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
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