Having made an enormous contribution to the establishment of the Nashville Sound and the modernisation of country music, Anita Kerr felt the need to expand her artistic horizons and in 1965, made the move from Nashville to Hollywood. She wanted to work with different people, to get her own songs recorded, to play jazz, to conduct an orchestra, to take on more ambitious and more varied projects musically, and to form a vocal group which, rather than be confined to studio sessions, might also appear in club and concert settings.
“For you, three shiny, black records... they are filled with a woman's feelings about how music should be written and a man's ideas about life.” Rod McKuen. 1968
• A 'must-have' for the true romantic, these timeless recordings were the fruit of the inspired collaboration between the popular American poet Rod McKuen and the great arranger / vocalist Anita Kerr.
Anita Kerr is quite simply one of the great underrated talents in the harmony pantheon. Her arrangements are expert, the execution impeccable. She’s right up...