Annette Hanshaw - private recordings

[@LiviaCairo]

This is absolutely amazing. Her voice is like a sweet punch, one of my favourites, definitely. It tickles your stomach, makes you close your eyes and dream. It just takes me somewhere else.

[@lovethe1930s40s]

Absolutely gorgeous and so amazing to hear Annette in the 50s, so full of warmth and easy sophistication! I'd love to have heard the others! Thank you for uploading these!

[@Kiddman32]

Wow... Fantastic to hear these home-made recordings! Annette was amazing! I've been a fan of 20's, 30's and 40's music. since the mid-70's, but it took the Internet for me to find the great Annette Hanshaw , probably in the late 90's. Very overlooked singer, in a way the female Bing Crosby, stylistically. I have, somewhere on my HD, recordings of some radio interviews that she did in NY in the late 60's, I think... Very fascinating listening!

[@georgedabrowski6900]

I lived in NYC in the early 70's, studying singing, of sorts. Never got up the nerve to call Annette, but I hadn't heard many of her recordings at that point, so probably for the better... This bit of "When I Am Housekeeping For You" is simply Scrumptious, and her voice deserved to be heard for way longer than it was. What a gifted lady!

[@merrihew]

A friend of mine, very young at the time, called her around 1980 and she was very kind to him. They talked many times and she wrote often. My friend wanted to meet her but she wouldn't see him. Her husband would come down to the apt. bldg. lobby and visit with him.

[@georgedabrowski6900]

@@merrihew a few years ago at the record show in Wayne,NJ, I spoke with another collector who had called Annette up in the early 70s. He had a lovely visit with her, and she always dismissed her old recordings, but come on....! Funny, though, there was a young man listening in on our conversation, and he asked this gentlemen, "Was she pretty?" He and I just looked at each other and raised an eyebrow. I said to the young man, "She was old..." I think he got it. Thank you for the wonderful recordings! GD

[@lightnweight]

How wonderful for you to share these with everyone! This is so gorgeous, and the sound is great.

[@janettewalker3991]

Thanks for this treasure recording.

[@AlexPangmanofficial]

Stunning and so mellow and mature and lovely. What a treasure! Is there MORE?!!?

[@davidgrant1369]

All the Above - simply stunning!

[@SwingBandHeaven]

This is such a great recording. Her voice was really excellent. Thanks for posting this rare recording.

[@transformingArt]

Very good! Thanks for posting!

[@tomekpy]

What a surprise ! Thank you so much for posting !

[@Kiddman32]

I happened to be watching the tube last year sometime when a commercial announcing a new video game came on... "Nice graphics", I thought, then my attention went back to the 'puter... Wait, there's something about that orchestral music... Then, the voice came on... "When night is creepin, and I should be sleepin' in bed..." ANNETTE!!!!! Her great recording from the early '30's! Somebody out there's been listening... :)

[@largblarg]

Love it. Annette Hanshaw rules.

[@bill3murr]

this is very nice; her voice is, of course, a bit weightier and matured; she still has it here...she is delightfuf and still annette... thanks for this.

[@ArtigasMillan]

Buenísimo!!muchas gracias por compartirlo

[@waderaney7]

👍 to 👂 these recordings👋

[@Kiddman32]

Anywayy, this rediscovered Annette stuff is great!

[@endofthelinejoel]

Thanks for posting. Nice A.H. rarity!

[@mlaprarie]

Love the sexy hoarseness in her mature voice here. Thanks for posting!

[@manidig]

There is a lot of detail in this recording, so whoever set it up knew what he was doing. And you're probably right about it being in the 1950s. Annette was listed in the Manhattan phone book right up until the end. I never called her, though.

[@mrald5924]

Wow, fantastic, thank you.

[@J.P.SeeburgEandKTSpecial]

She is swingin' here with a patina of adult world-weariness present in her voice.

[@Clockfxr]

Just wanted to add that Annette did release "When I'm Housekeeping For You" back in the day. I absolutely ADORE her, but I buy all her music on CD's so I can use them in my car. I wish we could do a new talent search to find someone who has her voice to record the songs we all wish she had done. Can you post the other ones, even if they are poor quality?

[@aceroadholder2185]

Someone who can actually sing.. what a concept!

[@merrihew]

@jameswiese Sorry, I should have used a music stand but I'm not going to buy a new one just for YT. Its not easy holding a record album just by the corner and keeping it steady. The only reason I didn't list the titles in the description is fear of the copyright police. So I put them under comments.

[@merrihew]

Penthouse Serenade (a.k.a When We're Alone), and When I'm Housekeeping for You.

[@Bobchai]

Why she gave up recording is beyond my comprehension. Her more mature voice on these recordings is so much richer and more sophisticated than her early stuff. She sounds almost like Lee Wiley here.

[@MrRezillo]

Wow, this is amazing. Annette Hanshaw from the fifties! What a different voice - not bad, just a little rusty, and a much more mature sound, of course.

[@georgedabrowski6900]

Annette Hanshaw did as much with that 50 year old voice as M.M.did with all her, uhm, talents, and didn't have to try. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Bobchai]

davidglow3: I can understand why. I don't think she did many public performances; she was a recording and radio star, and a shy one at that. She also didn't need the money, even at the bottom of the Depression. She came from a well-off family in the Hudson Valley and she married her record producer (and stayed married for a lifetime). Sometimes it's wise to retire at your peak. I certainly don't think her style was suited to the swing era of the late 1930s and 40s. The music changed.

[@merrihew]

On some of the others I have she is playing the piano but she definitely isn't on these. I have no idea who it is.

[@perfectjazz78]

Maybe her brother? He had a band in the 30s

[@pecaunosmile1261]

very nice.

[@peters855]

Wow thanks man

[@Kiddman32]

So, Annette gets some exposure on national TV, and I'm excited... Nobody to get excited with! None of my friends have much if any interest in good music... They think electric guitars aren't noise pollution, and some even think Rap (The "C" is silent) is worthy of a listen... So, I have all this news and nobody to tell...

[@Kiddman32]

@Kiddman32 After having listened closely to those interviews, and gathering other info around the 'net, I believe Annette used the gangster incidents as an excuse/reason to quietly slip out the backdoor of a business she had grown to despise.

[@wygtam]

That' funny, because I thought the gangster muscle was a narrowly known rumor, and now you're claiming it as an excuse that would have been known and accepted by anyone.

[@davidglow3]

She hated show biz full stop