A day like Annette

With the temperature hovering in the 60s and the sun peeking through scattered clouds here in Sleepy Hollow, I thought this spring-like day would be the right time to post the only known film clip of my favorite singer of the Jazz Age--and perhaps any age--the great Annette Hanshaw.

Hanshaw was a singer who inspired the imagination rather than leaving nothing to it. Small wonder Tommy Dorsey called her "a musician's singer." In this short she displays a combination of playfulness and grace that I find sexy as hell.

So without further ado, here is Annette Hanshaw in 1933 singing "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye," from Captain Henry's Showboat: