" 'The Fabulous Eartha Kitt' combined standards, offbeat special material, and several Hebrew songs that she had popularized on the Ed Sullivan show and in concert." James Gavin, box-set "Eartha-Quake" (1993)

"She cut two Latin sides that were released on the small Seeco label: Chano Pozo's Caliente and Tierra va tembla , a song she had learned on the streets of New York as a teenager. 'It's an Afro-Cuban number', she later said, 'and I know these people, know their cult. From living in certain parts of...

"Fifty years after she came to RCA, Kitt is still basically a cafe artist, not an arena superstar like Madonna. (In 1987, Madonna raided the turf of a senior Material Girl by recording Santa baby . Kitt was not impressed. Asked to comment, that prowling, hissing force of nature just snickered....

" 'When she is making a record', says RCA musical director Henri Rene, 'she never makes a grand entrance. She just sneaks into the sound studio in slacks and sits in a corner, or else gets up and prowls around, talking to the musicians, trying to play the horns, full of chater and curiosity until...

"Never one to take herself too seriousely, she has the ability to still play the sex kitten in advanced middle age without appearing ridiculous or making her adoring public feel uncomfortable." Tony Watts, "Sentimental Eartha" (1970)

"Even today, she still gives a sexy performance whether on screen or on stage and it takes a special performer to be able to do that in her seventies. On one recent TV appearance, she was wearing a figure hugging creation which was little more than a mesh, and theree wasn't much, if anything,...

"It had to be said that the voice of Eartha Kitt is an acquired taste as it doesn't suit  everyone. It has a throaty quality that just oozes sex appeal. That, and her habit of languidly pouring herself onto settees, or men, was considered almost too sexy for her  TV audiences. Also her feline...

"Guaranteed to make the most of any potential double entendre in the most words of a song, she is capable of making the most innocent of remarks seem like an irrestistible invitation to sin; definitely an artist to outrage the fundamentalist, self-appointed guardians of public morality in both...