PEARL BAILEY PROCLAIMS " IT'S A WOMANS PREROGATIVE ( TO CHANGE HER MIND")

Pearl Bailey Proclaims "  It's A Woman's Prerogative ( To Change Her Mind ")
 In the original 1946 version of Arlen and Mercer's " St. Louis Woman "  Pearl Bailey wowed the audience playing the role of Butterfly. The character was a saucy and strong-willed person who was involved with Barney Little Augie's consistently losing rival jockey. Earlier in the show, Butterfly confronted Barney demanding that he make their relationship permanent and suggesting she might be withholding future pleasures from Barney. " Legalize My Name" is a defiant woman's laying down the law to a man ignoring that dreaded " C" word called commitment. Bailey has the natural strength, confidence and ingratiating wit to really sell this song and its' emphatic message.
Bailey would later appear in Arlen and Truman Capote's  House of Flowers "  putting her strong personality on display as Madame Fleur, the Madam of a " house of pleasure."
Bailey is a very distinctive  personality and song stylist and that comes through in both songs she introduced in " St. Louis Woman."

LINK: PEARL BAILEY:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6n13f5BvC8