Saturday 17 August 2019

TOO LATE NOW- but not for Marilyn Maye.  A superb singer, Maye is 91 and still performing. She holds the the record for the most appearances ( 76) by a singer on
Johnny Carsons " Tonight Show."  Even Ella Fitzgerald called Maye her favorite white girl singer, The New Yorker describes her as " A last-of-her kind crooner who can still mesmerize an audience as she interprets the Great American Songbook with an unfussy warnth that feels transported from a less ironic age, She belives that she sings to you, not for you.

Too Late Now is from the 1951 movie " Royal Wedding", music by Buron Lane, lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.  There is such ease of expression in Marilyn's singing and she could offer a Master Class to today's strident " divas" who feel evrything must be at a fever pitch in omostrder to impress. Marilyn prefers to tell the story in a flowing. unforced manner. It is conversational =not an assault on the ears. At 91, Mariyn Maye is a most remarkable and enviable performer. 

 https://youtu.be/wPjEJPBuWZE

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