At first I had a kind of a fresh dejavu when I heard Janet's voice after checked in an English style cozy B&B at Blue Mountains, Australia last September, a week before my daughter's wedding in Sydney. At first I thought it was Doris Day but soon realized it a bit warmer and more transparent than my memories and I got to like this style. I repeat-played the CD at every breakfast and every whole evening asking my wife for turning TV off. I don't know if she liked it but at least she never disagreed. It was Doris Day featured one by Janet Seidel, new to me.
We went to Sydney for our daughter's wedding at weekend and I never forgot to get the CD there. Janet was so popular over there that I could find her easily on a best shelf spot just beside Synatra at HMV. When I'm at den for doing something after getting back to Tokyo, I often use her songs to create a relaxed atomosphere. It snaps my room creative very quickly.
I am a baby boomer in Japan after the war and strted hearing Doris Day late fifties. Her songs were every day life at that time. She was a golden girl who gave an American dream across the world after the war with always happy ending Hollywood movies as well as her liquid voice and intimate style. No message but be happy kind of. It was great, then. Particularly, I liked Que Sera Sera. Then this Janet. I strongly feel she loves Doris. I believe this is why I felt something deep in my heart never awaken for more than forty years suddenly started resonating.
Janet's interpretation successfully gives me a contemporary jazz taste without spoiling original bright and sunny world with every hope people had just after the war. Technically she is a better singer, making you feel safer. It's strange that Janet made me want to listen to Doris again. Then I found Janet's Doris is better than Doris's Doris. I should say much better. It could happen, but I felt sad without knowing an exact reason. Anyway, I like both and recommend them both to baby boomers and to younger generations.
We went to Sydney for our daughter's wedding at weekend and I never forgot to get the CD there. Janet was so popular over there that I could find her easily on a best shelf spot just beside Synatra at HMV. When I'm at den for doing something after getting back to Tokyo, I often use her songs to create a relaxed atomosphere. It snaps my room creative very quickly.
I am a baby boomer in Japan after the war and strted hearing Doris Day late fifties. Her songs were every day life at that time. She was a golden girl who gave an American dream across the world after the war with always happy ending Hollywood movies as well as her liquid voice and intimate style. No message but be happy kind of. It was great, then. Particularly, I liked Que Sera Sera. Then this Janet. I strongly feel she loves Doris. I believe this is why I felt something deep in my heart never awaken for more than forty years suddenly started resonating.
Janet's interpretation successfully gives me a contemporary jazz taste without spoiling original bright and sunny world with every hope people had just after the war. Technically she is a better singer, making you feel safer. It's strange that Janet made me want to listen to Doris again. Then I found Janet's Doris is better than Doris's Doris. I should say much better. It could happen, but I felt sad without knowing an exact reason. Anyway, I like both and recommend them both to baby boomers and to younger generations.