Summertime – 2005 Montreux Jazz Festival
At the 2005 Montreux Jazz Festival
The Sultry Bluesy Jazz Sounds of Renee Olstead
Renee Olstead performs at Sunday Kind of Love the 2005 Montreux Jazz Festival
Sunday Kind Of Love
by Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes, and Louis Prima
I want a Sunday kind of love
A love that will last past Saturday night (more…)
Renee starts at 23:00 minutes into the video with a performance of Skylark from her soon to be released album
of the same name.
Here’a a wonderful cover of “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do” as a duet sung by Renee and Peter Cincotti.
Download Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (Album Version)
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do is available on the CD album Renee Olstead.
From the Wikipedia article on the song Breaking Up Is Hard To Do.
“Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” is a song recorded by Neil Sedaka and described by Allmusic as “two minutes and sixteen seconds of pure pop magic”.
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Here’s a video that you may have missed. Renee being interviewed by Katie Couric on the Today Show in 2004 shortly after the release of her album Renee Olstead.
The video ends with a live performance of Summertime.
Download Summertime (Album Version)now!

Summertime is available on the CD album Renee Olstead.
Download What A Wonderful World (Non-Album Track) now!

What A Wonderful World is available on Renee’s album By Request
From the Wikipedia article What a Wonderful World
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Merry Christmas In Love was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture for 2006. Read more about the song from Marva Jan Marrow who wrote the lyrics.
Music by Tony Renis, Lyrics by Marva Jan Marrow, Sung by: Renee Olstead and produced by David Foster and Humberto Gatica
Merry Christmas in Love
Things that tremble tingle like a bubble full of rainbows… then crack
Sizzle, sing and whisper, when the shadows lace the moonlight with black
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