Showing posts with label yma sumac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yma sumac. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

My Guilty Vintage Pleasure

My favorite old time singer drives my husband up a wall, but guess what? He's out of town, so I have Yma Sumac cranked up as high as it will go.


A genuine Incan Princess (seriously, Kate Middleton, eat your heart out) Yma had a five octave range and her voice could go from vibrating your floor boards to cracking your windows in one breath.

Oh, God, the dress!

And Boy! Did she know how to dress! I swoon at the thought of her closet in the 50's.

Yes, those white pockets ARE all full of shoes.

For your listening pleasure, here are my two favorite songs.









Let me know what you think!