Jazz Singer Beverly Kenney

 I have some totally cool Twitter followers. There's a car commercial on television. It's a car commercial promoting the new Lincoln Aviator. In the ad, you hear a female vocalist do a sensationally smooth jazz rendition of "It's a Most Unusual Day," a song introduced by Jane Powell in a 1948 MGM musical titled A DATE WITH JUDY.

I'd never heard that jazz vocal before but I loved it immediately. Who was the singer? Was it Blossom Dearie? Chris Connor? June Christy? None of the three. I asked for help on Twitter and, within 15 minutes, a follower messaged me that the singer is Beverly Kenney. Thank you, Charlee, for the answer!

Here's the Beverly Kenney jazz vocal heard in the TV commercial:

Wasn't that a treat for the ears? Here's another one. This song, I first heard on an album I had of vocals by Lee Wiley. Now, Beverly Kenney also does jazz justice to "A Woman's Intuition."

I searched online for some biographical information about this singer. It was sad. With that velvety voice, she suffered from mental issues and took her own life in 1960. New Jersey native Beverly Kenney was only 28 when she died in Greenwich Village.

She left us with rediscovered beauty.