a Seducer of Audiences
Orson Welles
famously proclaimed her "the most exciting woman alive" in the early
'50s, apparently just after that excitement prompted him to bite her
onstage during a performance of
"Time Runs," an adaptation of "Faust"
in which Ms. Kitt's careerlong
persona, that of the seenitall sybarite, was set when she performed
in Paris cabarets in her early 20s, www.shopColtsnfljersey.com singing songs that became her
signatures, like "C'est Si Bon" and "Love for Sale."Returning
to New York, she was cast on Broadway in "New Faces of 1952" and added
another jewel to her vocal crown, "Monotonous" ("Traffic has been known
to stop for me/Prices even rise and drop for me/Harry S. Truman plays
bop for me/Monotonous, monotoneous"). Brooks Atkinson wrote in The New
York Times in May 1952, "Eartha Kitt not only looks incendiary, but she
can make a song burst into flame."Shortly after that run, Ms.
Kitt had her first bestselling albums and recorded her biggest hit,
"Santa Baby," whose precise, Womens T.Y. Hilton Jersey comehither diction and vaguely foreign
inflections (Ms. Kitt, a native of South Carolina, spoke four languages
and sang in seven) proved that a vocal sizzle could be just as powerful
as a bonfire. Though her record sales fell after the rise of rhythm and
blues and rock 'n' roll in the mid and late '50s, her singing style
would later be the template for other singers with www.shopcoltsnfljersey.com/WOMENS-TY-HILTON-JERSEY.html pillowtalky voices
like Diana Ross (who has said she patterned her Supremes sound and look largely after Ms. Kitt), Janet Jackson and Madonna (who recorded a cover version of "Santa Baby" in 1987). Ms. Kitt would later call herself "the original material girl," a