This Is Anita

Infobox Album | Name = This is Anita
Type = Album
Artist = Anita O'Day

| Released = 1955
Recorded = December 1955
Genre = Jazz
Length = 37:43
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Norman Granz, Anita O'Day
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fxfixqegldfe link]
Last album = "An Evening With Anita O'Day"
(1955)
This album = "This is Anita "
(1955)
Next album = "Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day"
(1956)

"This is Anita" is a 1955 (see 1955 in music) album by Anita O'Day.

It was the first in a series of albums recorded by O'Day for the newly inaugurated Verve Records. Norman Granz was the producer on this album, and it was the first album to be released under his new label, thus paving the way for the future recordings from Verve, and this album was Anita's first stint from the big band recordings of the 40's and the early 50's.

Track listing

ide One

# "You're the Top" (Cole Porter) — 2:24
# "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) — 3:13
# "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Manning Sherwin, Eric Maschwitz) — 4:00
# "Who Cares?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) — 3:14
# "I Can't Get Started" (I. Gershwin, Vernon Duke) — 3:53
# "Fine and Dandy" (Kay Swift) — 2:25

ide Two

# "As Long as I Live" (Harold Arlen) — 3:39
# "No Moon At All" (Redd Evans, David Mann) — 2:28
# "Time After Time" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) — 4:06
# "I'll See You In My Dreams" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) — 2:50
# "I Fall In Love Too Easily" (Cahn, Styne) — 2:54
# "Beautiful Love" (Haven Gillespie, Wayne King, Egbert Van Alstyne, Victor Young) — 2:37

Personnel

Recorded Late 1955

*Anita O'Day - Vocals
*Buddy Bregman - arrangements and Orchestra