My own romantic notion of the music business includes a smoky nightclub at 2 in the morning, dry martinis, bouncers at the door, and a sultry female singer on a small stage with a 5-piece jazz band. In my 30 years in the business, I’ve performed with just 4 female vocalists (we used to call them “chick singers”). All 4 were sweetheart and I always much preferred the ladies to male vocalists. They were all gorgeous and had singing styles like Julie London, Anita O’Day, or Sarah Vaughan – at least, that’s what I did my best to turn them into.
If this is your style, you simply HAVE to do a song called “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To”. It’s a Cole Porter tune from some movie in 1943. Dinah Shore had a hit with it which you wouldn’t like, and Diane Keaton massacred it in a Woody Allen movie. But the three singers I named above had versions that were just plain sexy. You can view the Anita O’Day version below. The sequence on my list includes the mandatory muted trumpet solo which, for some reason, all other sequencers refuse to add. If you’re gonna do it, do it right! It’s in my Jazz & Swing category…
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=you’d+be+so+nice+to+come+home+to&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=077193FB13513C8BFF5C077193FB13513C8BFF5C