Her albums, recorded with musicians including her brother, bassist David Seidel, have been nominated for prizes such as the ARIA Music Awards. Her album Moon of Manakoora won the Bell Award for Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album in 2006.
Seidel was described as a "virtual institution" in her country. She was a music teacher at Sydney Girls High School.
She died on 8 August 2017 after a battle against cancer.
Discography
1994 Little Jazz Bird
1994 Winter Moon
1995 Doodlin
1997 The Art of Lounge
1998 The Way You Wear Your Hat
1999 The Art of Lounge Volume 2
2000 Love Letters
2001 Doris & Me
2002 Dont Smoke in Bed
2003 Comme Ci, Comme Ça
2003 The Art of Lounge Volume 3
2004 Dear Blossom
2004 Hooray for Christmas
2005 Moon of Manakoora
2005 Delovely
2007 We Get Requests
2007 Charade – Henry Mancini Song Book
2011 Janet Seidel – Live in Taipai (DVD)
Too Marvelous for Words
Janet Seidel Lyrics
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Like glorious, glamorous and that old standby amorous
It's all too wonderful, I'll never find the words
That say enough, tell enough, I mean they just aren't swell enough
You're much too much and just too very, very
To ever be in Webster's Dictionary
And so I'm borrowing a love song from the birds
You're much, you're too much and just too very, very
To ever be, to ever be in Webster's Dictionary
And so I'm borrowing a love song from the birds
To tell you that you're marvelous, tell you that you're marvelous
Tell you that you're marvelous, too marvelous for words
Janet Seidel's song "Too Marvelous for Words" is a love song where the singer tries to express her lover's beauty, using several adjectives that describe how remarkable and wonderful the person is. The first verse includes words like "glorious," "glamorous," "amorous," that the singer uses to describe how exceptional the person is. In the second verse, the singer says that the person is "much too much" and "just too very, very," that they cannot be found in the dictionary, indicating that the person's beauty surpasses any language or vocabulary that exists. Towards the end, the singer admits she cannot find the perfect words to describe how remarkable and stunning the person is, so she borrows a love song from the birds to express her feelings.
The lyrics of the song show how the person's beauty and love are beyond words, that the singer cannot find the right words to describe it. It demonstrates how love is powerful enough to leave people speechless, and how trying to explain it through language is not always possible.
Line by Line Meaning
You're just too marvelous, too marvelous for words
You are simply extraordinary and exceptional beyond description
Like glorious, glamorous and that old standby amorous
You possess an unparalleled combination of splendor, elegance, and romanticism
It's all too wonderful, I'll never find the words
Your magnificence is so grand that it renders me speechless
That say enough, tell enough, I mean they just aren't swell enough
I cannot find adequate expressions to accurately convey the extent of your excellence
You're much too much and just too very, very
You are excessively and exceedingly remarkable
To ever be in Webster's Dictionary
Your greatness cannot be captured by mere words in a dictionary
And so I'm borrowing a love song from the birds
I am resorting to the poetic and melodic expressions of nature to praise you
To tell you that you're marvelous, too marvelous for words
To communicate to you that you are not only wonderful, but indescribably wondrous
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: JOHNNY MERCER, RICHARD A. WHITING
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
musicluvr2445
She is such a wonderful singer! I love this album, and miss her so very much. I have all the albums that are available to me, and wish there were more!!