Rita Reys Died

[Marcel]

Rita Reys a famous dutch jazz singer died today at the age of 88.
In the early seventies she did an album with songs from BURT and HAL.



For this album she received the dutch Edison Award.

Marcel

[Martin Johnson]

Sad news. I've had her Bacharach LP since the 70s and still dip into it regularly. Here's her lovely version of the beautiful and still underated 'Paper Mache':

[blueonblue]

Marcel and Martin,
Thank you for those wonderful songs !
I'll hold my hand up, I've never heard of this lady... but what a beautiful singer !

"blue"

[Blair N. Cummings]

Blue, my hand is up in ignorance too. I`m reasonably sure I had never even seen her name in print before and I thought that I had at least heard OF nearly everyone by now. I can`t say I hear Ms. Reys as a jazz singer, `though. The irreplaceable Carmen McRae took top honors in that category for my taste.
This is an inoffensive enough version of "PM" given that it lacks a Bacharach arrangement.