Carmen McRae
vocals
Jazz singer; Barry first heard her, from the audience, at the Rouge Lounge just outside Detroit.
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- recordings
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- Barry speaking
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What Barry says
Barry first heard Carmen McRae at the Rouge Lounge in River Rouge, just outside Detroit, sitting in the audience. She sang ‘Guess Who I Saw Today’, a song he did not know, and he could never enjoy anyone else singing it.
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland7:48Barry Harris on WKCR-FM ¶240
On Piano Jazz, decades later, he still remembers her white dress and how pretty she was as she sang.
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland7:48
In his own words
I remember seeing Carmen McRae there and hearing her sing for the first time ... I could never appreciate anybody else singing that song except Carmen.
She had on a white dress. I remember everything. Red shoes, beautiful legs. She was a pretty woman. And she was singing Guess Who I Saw [Today].
Every mention
1 moments in the recordings, 1 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
- 7:48
Remembers Carmen at the Rouge Lounge in a white dress, singing a song that was new to him.
In the interviews and notes
Describing the Rouge Lounge in River Rouge, a suburb-like town outside Detroit with a nice stage, Barry says he first saw and heard Carmen McRae there. She sang ‘Guess Who I Saw Today’, and he never cared for anyone else’s version.
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