Anita Kerr
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Anita Jean Grilli (born October 13, 1927), known professionally as Anita Kerr, is an American singer, arranger, composer, conductor, pianist, and music producer. She recorded and performed successfully with her vocal harmony groups in Nashville, Los Angeles, and Europe.
Career
Nashville
Kerr was born in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1948, shortly after moving from Memphis to Nashville, Kerr organized a vocal quintet whose performances attracted the attention of a WSM radio program director. He hired Kerr to become leader of and arranger for an octet choir on the radio station's "Sunday Down South" broadcasts. Joining her were singers Carl Garvin, Jim Hall, Doug Kirkham, Mary Ellen Puckett, Evelyn Wilson, Mildred Kirkham, and Don Fotrell. The group's first recording session was with Red Foley, and their collaboration resulted in a No. 16 hit on Billboard's Pop chart in 1950: Our Lady of Fatima. The following year, producer Owen Bradley signed them to record for Decca Records. Their talents in demand, Anita's group continued to sing backup for other country artists in Nashville, including Eddy Arnold, Burl Ives, and Ernest Tubb. The group's recording sessions—initially averaging two per week—increased to eight sessions weekly by 1955.
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Anita Kerr
ALBUMS
- La Mer/The Sea released:
- Music Is Her Name released:
La Mer/The Sea
- My Friend the Sea
- While Drifting
- Gifts From the Sea
- The Time of Noon
- Afternoon Shadows
- Do You Like the Rain?
- The Days of the Dancing
- Pushing the Clouds Away
- You Even Taste Like the Sun
- The Storm
- The Ever Constant Sea
- The Gypsy Camp
- Beyond the Bend Ahead
- The Sea
- California Coastline: Tuesday
- California Coastline: Late Friday Afternoon
Music Is Her Name
- Lullaby of Broadway
- Makin' Whoopee
- How Deep Is the Ocean
- I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
- I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
- Take the "A" Train
- Blues in the Night
- Begin the Beguine
- Sentimental Journey
- 'Round Midnight
- String of Pearls
- I'll Never Smile Again
- Early Autumn
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- I Get Along Without You Very Well
- It's Alright With Me
- I'm Glad There Is You
- The Party's Over
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by Screaming Trees
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by Ohgr
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by Ana Torroja
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by Vicentico
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by El Rookie
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by Sofi Mayen
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by Skids
Anita Grey
by: Screaming TreesLives in the dimming of your eyes
comes from a thousand years behind
born on the wrong side of life
pieces of her in your mind
live forever after with Anita Grey on Saturday
don't you want something to say
Anita Grey takes you away
Today
Cry when the best of her goes by
Shine like the echo of the sigh
Pieces of her in your mind
born on the wrong side of life
live forever after with Anita Grey on Saturday
don't you want something to say
Anita Grey takes you away
Away
Anita Grey on Saturday
don't you want something to say
Anita Grey takes you away