A common tangent

It's been a gloomy old day - the clouds are grey and heavy and, after a decent attempt at a lie-in after the excessive consumption of alcohol that inevitably accompanied our gang's faboo "Film Club" gathering yesterday, I barely had sufficient daylight to get some pottering in in the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers (finally putting the dried-out dahlia tuber to bed for the winter, and securing the plastic greenhouse that Madam Arcati erected last week as a sort-of shelter for rain-hating plants) before the sun set again...

Hey ho. Time for another (fairly) new diva discovery, the oft-overlooked - in favour of her better-known namesake Miss James - Etta Jones, who would have been 90 years old today.

A jobbing jazz vocalist for most of her career, she made a bit of a breakthrough in 1960 when her cover of Don't Go to Strangers and its accompanying album of the same name became a big chart success in the USA. Although she never made "the big time", she had a long and much-lauded career - receiving a Grammy nomination in 1980 - and was still working up until her death in 2001. And here she is, osculating away, with an inventive "montage video" of appropriate scenes from the movies and TV:

Etta Jones - Osculate Me Daddy

Etta Jones (25th November 1928 – 16th October 2001)

osculation [n]:

• The action of kissing
• A kiss
• A close contact
• (mathematics) A contact between curves or surfaces, at which point they have a common tangent