----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill" <billm45s@verizon.net>
> At 01:00 PM 1/7/2005 -0600, Ken wrote:
>>Peggy Lee, Dinah Shore and Julie London, it should be noted, did not 
>>write
>>their own material. Nellie has precious little in common with these 
>>singers.
>
> I have not heard anything by Nellie but based upon the thread as it 
> has developed, it caught my attention and made me want to have a 
> listen.  One of the reasons I was going to listen, was the 
> songwriting reference to Randy Newman as well as the reference to 
> Peggy Lee et. al above.  I love Peggy Lee, a great voice and a great 
> artist.  Now my question is does Nellie have anything in common with 
> the singers, I believe Mike Bennett referenced, or not?

On many songs, yes, absolutely.  As I said, she started out in the 
cabaret scene of her native NYC, and there is a definite influence of 
that generation of female jazz/pop/cabaret vocalists in her vocal 
style.  "Really," one of the songs I mentioned yesterday, is very much 
in the Julie London mode.

S

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