Eartha Kitt, died today. if all she ever did was sing the word cerise in this song, it would make her immortal, one of the best interpertive singers, wry, erotic, fresh, and open, without anger or darkness...but political enough for the FBI and CIA to investigate her for being pornographic, plus dancing until her 80s, she was iconic. (also, her bitching out Lady Bird Johnson at the white house for being blind to real issues was one of the great (under rated) acts of the civil rights movement.telling the first lady
"No wonder the kids rebel and take pot,Boys I know across the nation feel it doesn't pay to be a good guy. They figure that with a record, they don't have to go off to Vietnam."

That she was forced to, like Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, Nina Simone, and others, move to Europe to record and sing, is indicitave of american racisim, as is her (frankly spotty) film career