Anita

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Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Music Division, 2012 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Anita O'Day Papers 1937-2004 1940s-1970s ML31.O33 O'Day, Anita 1,200 items 20 containers 8.0 linear feet Collection material in English Music Division Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

Anita O'Day was an American jazz vocalist. The collection primarily consists of manuscript scores, lead sheets, parts, and annotated sheet music for arrangements of popular songs and jazz standards performed by O'Day throughout her career. In addition, it contains a small amount of scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence, clippings, honors and awards, posters, and publicity materials. Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

People Bregman, Buddy. Castro, Joe, 1927- Garcia, Russell. Holman, Bill. Jones, Quincy, 1933- Kahn, Tiny. May, Billy. O'Day, Anita--Archives. O'Day, Anita--Correspondence. O'Day, Anita--Photographs. O'Day, Anita. O'Day, Anita. Paich, Marty. Subjects Jazz vocals. Jazz--Lead sheets. Jazz. Music--Manuscripts--United States. Popular music--United States. Women jazz singers--United States. Form/Genre Awards. Clippings (Information artifacts) Correspondence. Photographic prints. Posters. Promotional materials. Scrapbooks. Administrative Information Provenance

Purchase; 2011.

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Processing History

The Anita O'Day Papers were processed by Thomas Barrick in 2012. Thomas Barrick coded the finding aid for EAD format in 2012.

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Biographical Note

Anita Belle Colton was born on October 18, 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri. Colton left home at age 12 and assumed the stage surname "O'Day" while employed as a walkathon and dance marathon contestant. She began singing professionally at age 19 in taverns around Chicago and earned a reputation for her improvisatory skills and unique vocal qualities. In 1941, O'Day joined the Gene Krupa Orchestra and became an overnight sensation with her hit "Let Me Off Uptown." She sang with Stan Kenton's big band from 1944 to 1945 and returned to Krupa's band from 1945 to 1946. Her career quickly became marred by constant drug use and incarceration, and it was not until the mid-1950s that O'Day's solo career reformed itself into a commercially successful enterprise. She recorded a string of successful albums with Verve Records and arranger Buddy Bregman, including Anita and Pick Yourself Up. O'Day continued to perform to rave reviews, appearing at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 and actively touring throughout the United States, Japan (1964), and Europe (circa 1970). Her performance of "Tea for Two" in Bert Stern's documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day (1958) is widely regarded as one of the finest jazz performances on film. In 1972, she established her own record label, Anita O'Day Records.

A period of mediocre gigs in the 1970s ended with O'Day's 1976 residency at the New York nightclub Hopper's and recruitment of savvy manager and press agent Alan Eichler. Strong reviews for appearances at Studio One's Backlot further revived her career and contributed to the eventual penning of her autobiography, High Times, Hard Times in 1981. O'Day launched the record label Emily in the early 1980s with Elaine and John Poole, the latter being her longtime drummer and former live-in partner. She performed at Carnegie Hall in 1985 in celebration of her fiftieth year in jazz and continued to actively record and tour until 1996, when an accident and subsequent mistreatment hospitalized her for over two years. O'Day resumed performances thereafter, celebrating her eightieth birthday with an appearance at Hollywood's Palladium. She died from pneumonia on November 23, 2006, in Los Angeles.

Scope and Content Note

The Anita O'Day Papers span from 1937 to 2004 with the majority of the materials dating from the 1940s to the 1970s. The collection primarily consists of manuscript scores, lead sheets, parts, and annotated sheet music for arrangements of popular songs and jazz standards performed by O'Day throughout her career. Although much fewer in number than the lead sheets, the full scores and parts reflect her work with many prominent arrangers, including Buddy Bregman, Joe Castro, Russell Garcia, Bill Holman, Quincy Jones, Norman "Tiny" Kahn, Billy May, Roger Neumann, and Marty Paich. The collection also includes a small assortment of scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence, clippings, honors and awards, posters, and publicity materials. Digitized images of the scrapbooks are available.

Organization of the Anita O'Day Papers

The Anita O'Day Papers are organized in four series:

Music, 1940s-1970s Scrapbooks, 1937-2003 Photographs, 1940s-2004 Miscellany, 1939-2004 http://lccn.loc.gov/2002 Container List Container Contents 1-17 Music, 1940s-1970s

Scores, lead sheets, parts, and annotated sheet music for popular songs and jazz standards. Arrangers are indicated if known.

Arranged alphabetically by title. Medleys of songs contain cross references to individual arrangements within the collection.

The Acapulco polka 1/1 Lead sheet

The ace in the hole 1/2 Parts: vocal, piano, bass

Afternoon in Paris 1/3 Lead sheets

Ain't gonna wait too long 13/1 Score

All I need in the world is you 1/4 Lead sheet

Am I blue? 1/5 Parts: vocal, piano, bass

And her tears flowed like wine see also Medley: Let me off uptown / And her tears flowed like wine 1/6 Parts: alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone 1-2, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-3, trombone 1-3

And the angels sing 1/7 Lead sheet

And the ring 1/8 Lead sheet

Co-writers: Doris Crow, Anita O'Day, Sonny Anderson

Anita's blues 1/9 Lead sheet 1/9 Lyric sheets Are you havin' any fun? 1/10 Lead sheet 1/10 Parts: piano, bass Are you livin' old man? 1/11 Sheet music

As long as I live 1/12 Lead sheets

13/2 Score

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

13/2 Parts: vocal, drums

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

As long as there's music 1/13 Lead sheet As time goes by 1/14 Lead sheet

Avalon 13/3 Score

Arranged for big band by Bill Holman

13/3 Score

Arranged for sextet by Bill Holman

13/3 Parts: vocal, alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-3, piano, bass, drums, guitar

Extra parts for sextet: baritone saxophone, piano, bass, drums, guitar

Arranged for big band and sextet by Bill Holman

Barrel house Bessie from Basin Street 1/15 Lead sheet

Battle hymn of the Republic 1/16 Lyric sheet

1/16 Sheet music

Autographed by O'Day

Beautiful love 13/4 Score

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

13/4 Parts: booth, piano, drums, guitar

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

Becky's night out 16/1 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

Beside me 1/17 Lead sheet

Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered 1/18 Lead sheet

Beyond the blue horizon 1/19 Lead sheet

Blue skies 1/20 Parts: trombone, bass, drums

Trombone part on verso of drum part

Blues for Bojangles 1/21 Lead sheet

Blues serenade 1/22 Lead sheets

Laid in: note about booking performances

Bluesette 1/23 Lead sheet

Body and soul 16/2 Score

Arranged by Russell Garcia for the album Anita O'Day sings the winners

16/2 Parts: alto saxophone 2, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-5

Arranged by Russell Garcia for the album Anita O'Day sings the winners

1/24 Lead sheets

Boogie blues 1/25 Parts: alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-4, piano, guitar, drums

Arranged by Quincy Jones

1/26 Parts: tenor saxophone, trumpet 1, trombone 1, bass, drums

Arranged by Roger Neumann

1/26 Parts: stock big band arrangement

Arranged by James "Jiggs" Noble

Brazillian skies 1/27 Lead sheet

Breaking up is hard to do 1/28 Lead sheet

The breeze and I 1/29 Lead sheet

1/29 Sheet music

Brother can you spare a dime? 1/30 Lead sheet

But not for me 1/31 Lead sheets

By chance 1/32 Lead sheet

By myself 1/33 Lead sheet

Candle light and wine 2/1 Lead sheets

Can't we be friends 2/2 Parts: piano, bass

Cent and a half 16/3 Score

Incomplete

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

Chicago 2/3 Lead sheets

Christmas in California 2/4 Lead sheets

The Christmas waltz 2/5 Lead sheets

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

Christopher Columbus 2/6 Piano-vocal score

Close to you see Medley: Yesterday / Close to you Close your eyes 2/7 Lead sheets

2/7 Parts: baritone saxophone, bass

Come rain or come shine 2/8 Lead sheets

Arranged by Joe Castro

Cottontail 16/4 Score

From folder inscribed: Tiny Kahn

Cute 2/9 Lead sheet

Dance, ballerina, dance 2/10 Lead sheets

Days of wine and roses see Medley: Days of wine and roses / You're my everything / Dearly beloved / No moon at all Dearly Beloved see Medley: Days of wine and roses / You're my everything / Dearly beloved / No moon at all 2/11 Lead sheet

Denzil's best 16/5 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

Destination moon 2/12 Piano-vocal score

2/12 Piano part

Didn't we 2/13 Lead sheets

Dr. Pepper [theme] 2/14 Lead sheets

On insert: For the album "The original cast album: Dr. Pepper, the most original soft drink ever," September 20, 1974

The easy life 2/15 Lead sheets

Easy living 2/16 Lead sheets

Arranged by Joe Castro

2/16 Guitar part

Emily 2/17 Parts: alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone 1-2, baritone saxophone, flugel horn 1-4, horn 1-2, trombone 1-4, piano, guitar, bass, percussion, drums

2/17 Lead sheets

Especially for li'l ole me 2/18 Lead sheets

Co-writers: Anita O'Day and Alfred Harned

Every time I'm with you 2/19 Lyric sheet

Photocopied from verso of "Well you needn't" lyric sheet

Everybody gets to go to the moon 2/20 Piano-vocal score

Arranged by Joe Castro

Everybody loves my baby 2/21 Baritone saxophone part

Exactly like you 2/22 Lead sheets

Falling love with love see Medley: Falling in love with love / Love for sale 13/5 Score

Arranged by Billy May

13/5 Parts: saxophone 1-5, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-4, piano, bass, drums, guitar

Arranged by Billy May

Fine and dandy 13/6 Score and lead sheet

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

Fly me to the moon 2/23 Lead sheets

Flying 2/24 Lead sheet

Fools rush in 2/25 Lead sheet

For Heaven's sake 2/26 Piano-vocal score

Ford commercial 3/1 Lead sheet

Inscribed: Geo. Romanis, rec'd June 7, 1973, Anita O'Day, Ford Commercial (radio)

Four 3/2 Lead sheet

Four brothers 3/3 Parts

Big band arrangement by Marty Paich for the album Anita O'Day sings the winners

Frankie and Johnny 3/4 Lead sheet

Funny feeling 3/5 Lead sheet

Gee baby, ain't I good to you? 3/6 Lead sheet

The girl from Impanema 3/7 Lead sheet

Alternate title: The boy from Impanema

Give me the simple life 3/8 Lead sheet Gone with the wind 3/9 Parts: vocal, piano, bass

3/9 Sheet music

Groovin' high 3/10 Lead sheet

3/10 Lyric sheet

Grown up man 3/11 Sketch of piano part

Gypsy in my soul 3/12 Lead sheet

Hand-me-down love 3/13 Lead sheets

Harlem butterfly 3/14 Piano-vocal score

Here, there and everywhere 3/15 Lead sheet

Here's that rainy day 3/16 Lead sheets

Arranged by Buddy Bregman for the album Rules of the road

3/16 Bass part

Here's to life 3/17 Lead sheets

Hershey bar 3/18 Parts: vocal, baritone saxophone, piano, bass

Honeysuckle rose 3/19 Lead sheets

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

3/19 Bass part

Hooray for Hollywood 16/6 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

3/20 Parts: vocal, tenor saxophone, piano, bass

A hundred years from today 3/21 Sheet music

I can't believe that you're in love with me 4/1 Lead sheet

I can't get started with you 4/2 Parts: vocal, clarinet 1-2, bass clarinet, flute 1-2, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-4, piano, bass, drums

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

I concentrate on you 4/3 Lead sheets

Inscribed: MGM "The out fit"

4/3 Bass part

I could write a book 4/4 Lead sheet

I cover the waterfront 4/5 Lead sheets

I cried for you 4/6 Lead sheets

4/6 Parts: baritone saxophone, piano

Piano part copied from verso of "Sonny" piano part

I didn't know what time it was 4/7 Lead sheet

I fall in love too easily see also Medley: I fall in love too easily / Time after time 4/8 Sheet music

4/8 Guitar part

I found a new baby 4/9 Piano-vocal score

I get a kick out of you see also Medley: Old devil moon / Speak low / I get a kick out of you / On a clear day 4/10 Parts: vocal, woodwinds 1-4, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-4, piano, bass, drums

Vocal part is autographed

I gotta right to sing the blues 4/11 Lead sheets

I have a reason for living 4/12 Lead sheets

I hear music 14/1 Score

14/1 Parts: alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-4, piano, bass, drums, percussion

4/13 Lead sheets

4/13 Sheet music

I remember you 4/14 Lead sheets

I try to tell myself 4/15 Lead sheet

I waited for you 4/16 Lead sheet

I was doin' alright 4/17 Lead sheet

I won't dance 4/18 Piano score

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

If I love again 5/1 Parts: vocal, baritone saxophone, piano

Arranged by Bill Holman

If love were all 5/2 Lead sheet

If the moon turns green 5/3 Piano score

If you could see me now 5/4 Lead sheets

I'll be tired of you 5/5 Lead sheet

I'll see you in my dreams 5/6 Parts: alto saxophone 1-2, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-4, piano, bass, drums

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

I'll take Los Angeles 5/7 Lead sheet

I'm beginning to see the light see Medley: Satin doll / I got it bad / Mood indigo / I'm beginning to see the light / Sophisticated lady / Take the A-train I'm getting sentimental over you 5/8 Lead sheets

The "I'm not supposed to be blue" blues 5/9 Lead sheet

I'm not the fool no more 5/10 Lead sheet

I'm old fashioned 5/11 Lead sheets

I'm still here 5/12 Piano-vocal score

I'm still in love with you 5/13 Lyric sheets

I'm with you 5/14 Piano-vocal score

In a mellow tone see also Medley: In a mellow tone / It don't mean a thing 5/15 Lead sheets

5/15 Sheet music

In the middle of May 5/16 Piano-vocal score

In Las Vegas 5/17 Lead sheet

It could happen to you 5/18 Parts: vocal "booth," piano, bass

Arranged by Marty Paich for the album Anita O'Day sings the winners

Inscription inside page 3 of "booth" part: [drum exercises] (Mel Lewis was the drummer on the session)

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing see also Medley: In a mellow tone / It don't mean a thing 5/19 Lead sheets

It had to be you 5/20 Lead sheet

It just don't pay to gamble 5/21 Lead sheet

It's you or no one 5/22 Lead sheet

5/22 B-flat instruments part

I've got five dollars 5/23 Lead sheet

I've got the world on a string 5/24 Lead sheet

Inscribed: Dedicated to Woody Herman

I've got you under my skin 5/25 Lead sheet

5/25 Parts: piano, bass

I've taken a fancy to you 5/26 Lead sheet

The jitterbug waltz 6/1 Lyric sheets

6/1 Sheet music

Johnny One Note 14/2 Score

Arranged by Billy May

14/2 Parts: vocal, saxophone 1-5, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-4, piano, bass, drums, guitar

Arranged by Billy May

The joker 6/2 Piano-vocal score

José Gonzales 6/3 Lead sheet

Just in time 6/4 Lead sheet

Just the way you look tonight 6/5 Lead sheet

Incomplete: page 5 of unidentified medley only

Key largo 6/6 Score

Arranged for 1947 album on Signature records

6/6 Parts: conductor, vocal, alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone 1-2, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-3, trombone, bass, drums, guitar

Extra parts for sextet: alto saxophone, trumpet, trombone

Arranged for 1947 album on Signature records

The lady in red 6/7 Lead sheet

Lady of the lavender mist 6/8 Lead sheet

Sketches of drum exercises on verso

Lazy mood 6/9 Piano-vocal score

Let me love you 6/10 Sheet music

Let me off uptown see also Medley: Let me off uptown / And her tears flowed like wine 6/11 Parts: piano, drum, trumpet-drum break excerpt

Arranged by Roger Neumann

Let's begin 14/3 Score

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

14/3 Parts: vocal, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-2, trombone, piano, bass, drums, guitar

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

Let's fall in love 6/12 Lead sheet Let's live tomorrow today 6/13 Lead sheet

Like someone in love 6/14 Lead sheets

Limehouse blues 6/15 Lead sheet

Linger a while 6/16 Lead sheets

Listen little girl 6/17 Piano-vocal score

A little affection 6/18 Lead sheet

Little girl blue 6/19 Lead sheet

14/4 Score

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

14/4 Parts: vocal, strings, piano, bass, guitar

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

Little orphan Annie 6/20 Lead sheet

Lonesome road 6/21 Lead sheets

Arranged by Buddy Bregman for the album Rules of the road

Long daddy Green 6/22 Lead sheet

Look at what the wind blew in 6/23 Lead sheet

The look of love 6/24 Sheet music

6/24 Bass part

Lost in the stars 6/25 Lead sheet

Love for sale see Medley: Falling in love with love / Love for sale 15/1 Score

Arranged by Billy May

15/1 Parts: vocal, saxophone 1, 3-5, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-4, piano, bass, drums, guitar

Arranged by Billy May

Saxophone 2 part is missing

Love is a thing 6/26 Lead sheet

Love lingers on 6/27 Lead sheet

Love me now 6/28 Lead sheet

A love song 6/29 Lead sheet

Arranged by Joe Castro

Lover come back to me 6/30 Lead sheet

6/30 Parts: piano, bass, drums

Lover man 16/7 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

6/31 Lead sheet

Love's a one sided game 6/32 Lead sheet

Lullaby in rhythm 16/8 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

Lullaby of leaves 6/33 Lead sheets

6/33 Guitar part

Lush life 6/34 Lead sheet

Lyon for Lyons 6/35 Lyric sheet

Photocopied from verso of "Well you needn't" lyric sheet

The man with the horn 7/1 Lead sheet

Arranged by Roger Neumann

7/1 Parts: tenor saxophone, piano, bass, drums

Arranged by Roger Neumann

Me thinks 7/2 Lead sheet

Meditation 7/3 Lead sheets

7/3 Tenor saxophone part

7/3 Sheet music

Medley: Days of wine and roses / You're my everything / Dearly beloved / No moon at all 7/4 Lead sheets

Arranged by Joe Castro

Medley: Falling in love with love / Love for sale 7/5 Lead sheet

Medley: I fall in love too easily / Time after time see also I fall in love too easily see also Time after time 7/6 Lead sheet

Medley: In a mellow tone / It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) see also In a mellow tone see also It don't mean a thing 7/7 Parts: alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone 1-2, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-4, piano, bass, drums, guitar

Medley: Let me off uptown / And her tears flowed like wine see also And her tears flowed like wine see also Let me off uptown 7/8 Baritone saxophone part

Incomplete

Inscribed: Hit medley

Medley: Old devil moon / Speak low / I get a kick out of you / On a clear day see also I get a kick out of you see also Old devil moon see also Speak low see also On a clear day 7/9 Lead sheets

Medley: Satin doll / I got it bad / Mood indigo / I'm beginning to see the light / Sophisticated lady / Take the A-train see also Take the A-train 7/10 Lead sheet

Inscribed: Duke Ellington "Love you medley"

Medley: S'wonderful / They can't take that away 7/11 Lead sheets

7/11 Parts: piano, bass

7/12 Parts: alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone 1-2, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-4, piano, bass, drums

Arranged by Roger Neumann

Medley: Wee small hours / Remember 7/13 Lead sheets

Medley: Yesterday / Close to you 1/14 Lead sheet

Inscribed: Beatles - Bacharach medley

Medley: Yesterday / Yesterdays 7/15 Lead sheets and rhythm section parts

Arranged by Gordon Brisker

Memories of you 8/1 Lead sheets

Arranged by Joe Castro

The moment of truth 8/2 Lead sheet

Mood indigo see Medley: Satin doll / I got it bad / Mood indigo / I'm beginning to see the light / Sophisticated lady / Take the A-train More than you know 8/3 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

8/3 Lead sheet

Music that makes me dance 8/4 Lead sheets

Arranged by Buddy Bregman for the album Rules of the road

My funny Valentine 17/2 Score

Arranged by Russell Garcia for the album Anita O'Day sings the winners

17/2 Parts: saxophone 1-2, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-5, piano, bass, guitar

Arranged by Russell Garcia for the album Anita O'Day sings the winners

8/5 Parts: tenor saxohpone, horn, piano, bass

Arranged by Dick Shreve

My love for you 8/6 Lead sheet My romance 8/7 Lead sheets

My ship 8/8 Lead sheets

Arranged by Dick Palombi

The nearness of you 8/9 Lead sheet

No lyric

Never let me go 8/10 Lead sheet

The night has a thousand eyes 8/11 Lead sheet

A night in Tunisia 17/3 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square 8/12 Lead sheets

Arranged by Buddy Bregman and Dick Shreve

No fool like and old fool 8/13 Lead sheet

No man of my own 8/14 Lead sheet

Co-writers: Anita O'day, Melanie Harby, Roy Zimmerman, Tom Adams

No moon at all see Medley: Days of wine and roses / You're my everything / Dearly beloved / No moon at all 15/2 Score

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

15/2 Parts: trombone 1-4, piano, guitar, bass, drums

Includes alternate horn arrangement for baritone saxophone, trumpet, trombone

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

The no soap, no hope, no mouse, no house blues 8/15 Piano-vocal score

Nobody does it better 8/16 Lead sheets

Arranged by Buddy Bregman for the album Rules of the road

Nobody does it like me 8/17 Sheet music

Nowhere street 8/18 Lead sheet

Off like a rocket 8/19 Lead sheet

Old devil moon see also Medley: Old devil moon / Speak low / I get a kick out of you / On a clear day 8/20 Lead sheets

8/20 Tenor saxophone part

8/20 Sheet music

Old folks 8/21 Lead sheets

On a clear day see also Medley: Old devil moon / Speak low / I get a kick out of you / On a clear day 9/1 Lead sheets

On the sunny side of the street 9/2 Lead sheets

On the trail 9/3 Lead sheets

Once in a while 9/4 Lead sheets

One less bell to answer 9/5 Lead sheet

Oo pah pa dah 17/4 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

Opus 1 9/6 Lead sheets

At top: Anita and Roy

8/19 Parts: vocal, alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone 1-2, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-4, piano, guitar, bass, drums

Orphan Annie 9/7 Parts: trumpet 1-3, trombone 1-3, piano, guitar, bass, drums, conductor

Arranged by Jimmy Guiffre

9/7 Parts: alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone 1-2, baritone saxophone, trupmet 1-4, trombone 1-4, piano/vocal, bass, drums

Arranged by Roger Neumann

P town 9/8 Lead sheets 9/8 Parts: alto/baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, trumpet, trombone The party's over 9/9 Lead sheet Passing through 9/10 Lead sheet Play me the blues 9/11 Lead sheet Playboy 9/12 Lead sheet Praise of folly 17/5 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

Inscribed: Gillespie arrange

Rain sometimes 9/13 Lead sheet

Robin Hood 9/14 Piano-vocal score Round trip 9/15 Lead sheet Rules of the road 9/16 Lead sheets

Arranged by Buddy Bregman for the album Rules of the road

9/16 Parts: vocal, B-flat instruments, C instruments

Runnin' wild 9/17 Lead sheet Salsa con queso 9/18 Lead sheet

Santa Clause is coming to town 17/6 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

Saratoga hunch 9/19 Lead sheets

Satan I'll be waitin' 17/7 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

Satin doll see Medley: Satin doll / I got it bad / Mood indigo / I'm beginning to see the light / Sophisticated lady / Take the A-train Season in the sun 9/20 Lead sheets

Send in the clowns 9/21 Lead sheets

Seńor blues 9/22 Lead sheet

Shaking the blues away 9/23 Lead sheets

Arranged by Buddy Bregman for the album Rules of the road

Shiny stockings 9/24 Piano part

Simpatico 9/25 Lead sheets

A sleepin' bee 9/26 Lead sheets

A slow dance 9/27 Lead sheets

So nice 9/28 Lead sheets

9/28 Tenor saxophone part

Somebody's cryin' 9/29 Lead sheets

Something (in the way he moves) 9/30 Lead sheets

9/30 Parts: piano, bass

A song for you 10/1 Lead sheets

The song is you 10/2 Lead sheets

Sonny 10/3 Piano part

Piano part for "I cried for you" on verso

Soon it's gonna rain 10/4 Lead sheets

Arranged by Buddy Bregman for the album Rules of the road

Sooner or later 10/5 Lead sheets

Arranged by Buddy Bregman for the album Rules of the road

Sophisticated lady see also Medley: Satin doll / I got it bad / Mood indigo / I'm beginning to see the light / Sophisticated lady / Take the A-train 10/6 Lead sheet

Arranged by Joe Castro in the keys of C-flat and B-flat

Speak low see also Medley: Old devil moon / Speak low / I get a kick out of you / On a clear day 10/7 Lead sheets

10/7 Parts: piano, bass, rhythm

10/7 Sheet music

The spell is on 10/8 Lead sheets

S'posin' 10/9 Lead sheets

Spring can really hang you up the most 10/10 Lead sheet

Spring is here 10/11 Lead sheet

Star eyes 10/12 Lead sheets

Inscribed: For Charlie Parker

Stardust 10/13 Lead sheet

Stella by starlight 10/14 Lead sheets

Stompin' at the Savoy 10/15 Lead sheet

Arranged by Joe Castro

Street of dreams 10/16 Lead sheets

Strike up the band 17/8 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

The summer knows 10/17 Lead sheets

Summertime 10/18 Lead sheet

Sweet Georgia Brown 10/19 Parts: woodwinds 1-5, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-4, piano, bass, percussion

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

Sweet marijuana 10/20 Lead sheets

S'wonderful see Medley: S'wonderful / They can't take away 'Taint no good 11/1 Lead sheet

Take it slow Joe 11/2 Lead sheet

Take me out to the ballgame 11/3 Lead sheet

Take the A-train see also Medley: Satin doll / I got it bad / Mood indigo / I'm beginning to see the light / Sophisticated lady / Take the A-train 15/3 Score

Arranged by Marty Paich for the album Anita O'Day sings the winners

15/3 Parts: tenor saxophone 1-3, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-4, trombone 1-4, tuba, piano, bass, drums

Arranged by Marty Paich for the album Anita O'Day sings the winners

17/9 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

Taps Miller 17/10 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

Tea for two 11/4 Lead sheets

Ten cents a dance 11/5 Lead sheets

Tenderly 11/6 Lead sheets

Arranged by Marty Paich for the album Anita O'Day sings the winners

Thank God I'm old 11/7 Lead sheets

That's what you think 11/8 Parts: alto saxophone 1-2, tenor saxophone 1-2, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1-3, trombone 1-3, piano, bass, drums

Arranged by Deane Kincaide

There he goes 11/9 Lead sheet

There will never be another you 11/10 Lead sheet

They can't take that away from me see Medley: S'wonderful / They can't take away This is all I ask 11/11 Lead sheet

Time after time see also Medley: I fall in love too easily / Time after time 15/4 Score

Arranged by Buddy Bregman for the album This is Anita

15/4 Parts: vocal, harp, 2nd violin, cello, bass, guitar, booth copy

Arranged by Buddy Bregman for the album This is Anita

11/12 Lead sheet

Arranged by Roger Neumann

11/12 Parts: tenor saxophone, piano, bass, drums

Arranged by Roger Neumann

Tiny's blues 17/11 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

Too late the Spring 11/13 Lead sheet

Touch of your lips 11/14 Lead sheets

Chords only

Try your wings 11/15 Lead sheets

Undecided 11/16 Lead sheet

11/16 Sheet music

The very thought of you 11/17 Lead sheet

Watch what happens 11/18 Lead sheet

Wave 11/19 Lead sheet

The way you do 11/20 Lead sheet

The wedding waltz 11/21 Lead sheet

Wee small hours see Medley: Wee small hours / Remember Well you needn't 17/12 Score

Arranged by Tiny Kahn

11/22 Lyric sheets

We've only just begun 11/23 Lead sheet

What a little moonlight can do 12/1 Lead sheet

What am I here for? 12/2 Lead sheet

What are you doing for the rest of your life? 12/3 Lead sheet

What ever happened to you? 12/4 Lead sheet

What is a man? 12/5 Lead sheets

12/5 B-flat instruments part

What is this thing called love? 15/5 Score

Arranged by Billy May

15/5 Parts: vocal, trumpet 1-2, guitar

Arranged by Billy May

When sunny gets blue 12/6 Lead sheet

When the world was young 12/7 Lyric sheets

Where is the rainbow 12/8 Lead sheet

The whole world is Paris (when you're in love) 12/9 Lead sheet

Wo-ho 12/10 Sheet music

Autographed by Jimmy Nolan

Yea-boo! 12/11 Lead sheet

12/11 Sheet music

Autographed by O'Day

Yellow days 12/12 Lead sheet Yes 12/13 Lead sheet

Formerly titled: Rugolo meets Shearing

Yesterday see Medley: Yesterday / Close to you see Medley: Yesterday /Yesterdays Yesterdays see Medley: Yesterday / Yesterdays You are the sunshine of my life 12/14 Lead sheet

You can depend on me 12/15 Lead sheets You can't go home again 12/16 Lead sheet

12/16 Tenor saxophone part

You could have had me, baby 12/17 Lead sheet

You go to my head 12/18 Lead sheet

You turned the tables on me 12/19 Lead sheet

You'd be so nice to come home to 12/20 Lead sheets Your eyes are bigger than your heart 12/21 Lead sheet You're a clown 12/22 Parts: vocal, piano, guitar, bass, drums

Arranged by Jimmy Guiffre

You're laughing at me 12/23 Lead sheet

You're my everything see Medley: Days of wine and roses / You're my everything / Dearly beloved / No moon at all 12/24 Lead sheet

You're the top 12/25 Piano part

Arranged by Buddy Bregman

Scrapbooks, 1937-2003

Miscellaneous clippings, photographs, and other documents, received as six volumes of loose scrapbook pages with no discernable order. The original pages have been digitized due to their poor physical condition. Consult reference staff in the Performing Arts Reading Room for assistance viewing these files. Clippings and photographs from the pages are available in other series within the collection.

Arranged numerically by scrapbook number.

20 Photographs, 1940s-2004

Black and white and color images, chiefly from the scrapbooks, of O'Day alone or with musicians and other people.

Arranged by subject.

20/1 Anita O'Day, alone 20/2 Anita O'Day, with musicians 20/3 Anita O'Day, with others 20/4 Other people 18-19 3 Miscellany, 1939-2004

Includes clippings, correspondence, awards, posters, programs and promotional material.

Arranged alphabetically by material type.

18/1 Clippings, 1939-1961 and undated

Chiefly photocopies of newspaper articles from the scrapbooks that have been organized chronologically by decade.

19/1-2 Correspondence, 1941-2004 and undated

Chiefly letters between O'Day and John Pietranowicz, an avid fan and member of the Armed Services. Pietranowicz developed an enduring relationship with O'Day that, through their correspondence, reveals the nature of her dynamic performing career during the World War II period.

18/2, 19/3 Honors and awards, 1958-2002

19/4 Lists, undated

3/8 Posters, undated

19/5 Programs, 1945-1964 and undated

18/3 Promotional materials, undated