Eartha Kitt - Purr-Fect: The Eartha Kitt Collection
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Artist: Eartha KittEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2001-03-05
Music Label: Spectrum Audio UK
Soundtracks:
- Just An Old Fashioned Girl
- I Want To Be Evil
- Do It Again
- Lola Lola
- Mack The Knife
- Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)
- All I Want Is All There Is And Then Some
- My Heart Belongs To Daddy
- Love For Sale
- Never On Sunday
- Uska Dara
- C'Est Si Bon
- Yellow Bird
- Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
- Santa Baby
- A Lady Loves
- Lilac Wine
- Whatever Lola Wants
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Free Music Review: In fact, she was--perfect as well as purr-fect.
Hit: 5 Stars
She may not have had Piaf's musical instrument or the full, flowing facial geography (but what sculpture!) of a Garbo, or the irresistible, girl-next-door wholesome charm of a Garland or Doris Day, but she was the institution of cabaret personified not to mention the most fatally feline femme fatale of them at all--so much so that Orson Welles (like her, an American institution) looked upon her as an epic Circe, even casting her as the woman whose allure led to the Trojan War and to the fall of one of the world's great civilizations (undoubtedly a more convincing Helen than the one cast opposite Richard Burton ten years later). Yet cabaret superstars such as Marlene, Nina, Lena (the inferior Madonna was too exalted to emerge from her panoply of costumes, effects, and microphones long enough to "lower herself" to be a cabaret performer) frequently receive more attention than the inarguable master--Eartha Kitt OWNED cabaret, gifted with deceptively towering talent, superlative linguistic skills, and the sophisticated awareness that allowed her simultaneously to let the audience in on the joke yet be utterly seduced (if not enslaved) by this material woman. We may not have realized it at the time, but for Eartha life was a grand party, and each of us was a privileged guest, privileged to be on her inclusive guest list.
To put it plainly, Eartha Kitt was underrated, and it's somewhat sad that for those who still remember her, her career is essentially reduced to two representative but nonetheless inadequate moments: her recording of "Santa Baby" and her role as The Catwoman in the '60s television series (she alone surpassed all of the Tim Burton big screen versions).
She was smallish, an overcompensating overachiever, and musically limited, but thanks to a prodigious intellect, an acute and lightning-fast mind, and a sense of "theatrically" perhaps rivaled only by Welles, she managed to "play big"--regardless of the venue or the time. In fact, in her last interview--an hour-long spot for PBS telecast in late September of 2009 (she died Dec. 25)--she was as sharp mentally, as animated physically, as alive spiritually, and as sexy and full of play as she must have been 60 years earlier. More than a colossal femme fatale, she was the ultimate impersonation of the type (arguably created by men), playing it so far "over the top" that it was "performance art" at its best.
There's no way to capture such achievement on a recording. The weakness of this collection is that it some of the in-person recordings and patter of "At the Plaza"; the strength of the collection is that it omits "Here's to Life," a song that Eartha insisted on using as a closer in her cabaret act during the last 15 years or so. (The sentiments are understandable, but the song had already received sublime readings from Shirley Horn and Joe Williams, making Eartha seem like a poor "copycat." Moreover, the lyric seemed too "sincere" to fit the playfulness, candor, and irreverence that were so integral to the Kitt persona. With three autobiographies to her credit, this final testament was inevitably anticlimactic if not gratuitous.) Better our heroic, incorrigible octogenarian had ended her act with "I Want to Be Evil." We would have understood, no doubt better than she, that no more appropriate and satisfying "message" could have been issued, demonstrating to the fullest what she hoped to deliver with the lyrics of "Here's to Life."
Buy the CD, but try to catch that last interview on PBS.
Purr-Fect: The Eartha Kitt Collection Poster
UK compilation for the alluring vocalist who still packs 'em in on the cabaret circuit, best known as the scariest Catwoman on TV's 'Batman' and for her signature hits 'Sanata Baby' and 'C'est Si Bon' both of which are included here. Additional tracks include, 'Just An Old Fashioned Girl', 'I Want To Be Evil', 'Mack The Knife', 'My Heart Belongs To Daddy' and 'Love For Sale'. 18 tracks in all. 2000 release. Standardjewel case.Broadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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