Ella Fitzgerald

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Sleigh Ride 02:59 Tools
Dream A Little Dream Of Me 00:00 Tools
Cheek To Cheek 00:00 Tools
Someone To Watch Over Me 00:00 Tools
It's Only a Paper Moon 02:44 Tools
Summertime 04:59 Tools
I Get A Kick Out Of You 00:00 Tools
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 02:58 Tools
Manhattan 04:01 Tools
Night and Day 00:00 Tools
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 02:46 Tools
Mack The Knife 00:00 Tools
Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) 03:33 Tools
The Lady Is a Tramp 02:42 Tools
Cry Me A River 00:00 Tools
Frosty The Snowman 00:00 Tools
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall 03:07 Tools
How High the Moon 03:20 Tools
Too Darn Hot 00:00 Tools
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 00:00 Tools
Let's Call The Whole Thing Off 04:18 Tools
Just One Of Those Things 03:33 Tools
But Not for Me 03:55 Tools
Winter Wonderland 02:18 Tools
The Christmas Song 00:00 Tools
Anything Goes 03:22 Tools
White Christmas 00:00 Tools
Misty 02:55 Tools
My Funny Valentine 03:53 Tools
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer 00:00 Tools
Lullaby of Birdland 02:52 Tools
I Love Paris 00:00 Tools
I've Got You Under My Skin 00:00 Tools
Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Blue Skies 05:38 Tools
The Man I Love 03:52 Tools
I've Got A Crush On You 00:00 Tools
Love for Sale 00:00 Tools
Angel Eyes 03:28 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It 02:42 Tools
Smooth Sailing 03:09 Tools
A-Tisket, A-Tasket 02:41 Tools
Undecided 00:00 Tools
You Do Something To Me 00:00 Tools
Jingle Bells 02:26 Tools
Love Is Here To Stay 04:00 Tools
A Foggy Day 04:34 Tools
Miss Otis Regrets 00:00 Tools
A Fine Romance 00:00 Tools
In The Still Of The Night 00:00 Tools
Sunshine Of Your Love 00:00 Tools
'S Wonderful 03:01 Tools
All Through The Night 00:00 Tools
Black Coffee 03:31 Tools
Begin The Beguine 00:00 Tools
I'm Beginning to See the Light 00:00 Tools
That Old Black Magic 04:12 Tools
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 01:28 Tools
From This Moment On 00:00 Tools
All Of You 00:00 Tools
Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered 07:02 Tools
Oh, Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
It's All Right With Me 03:08 Tools
The Nearness Of You 05:44 Tools
Puttin' on the Ritz 00:00 Tools
How Long Has This Been Going On? 00:00 Tools
Don't Fence Me In 00:00 Tools
In A Mellow Tone 00:00 Tools
Tenderly 00:00 Tools
Let's Fall In Love 03:33 Tools
Baby It's Cold Outside 02:42 Tools
Easy To Love 00:00 Tools
April in Paris 00:00 Tools
My One And Only 03:18 Tools
Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney 03:03 Tools
Good Morning Blues 00:00 Tools
My Heart Belongs To Daddy 00:00 Tools
All The Things You Are 03:18 Tools
I Concentrate On You 00:00 Tools
Misty Blue 02:55 Tools
The Secret Of Christmas 00:00 Tools
Flying Home 02:32 Tools
Autumn In New York 00:00 Tools
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm 00:00 Tools
You're The Top 00:00 Tools
Moonlight in Vermont 00:00 Tools
Get Happy 00:00 Tools
Do I Love You? 00:00 Tools
Can't We Be Friends? 00:00 Tools
Blue Moon 00:00 Tools
Get Out Of Town 00:00 Tools
I Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Isn't This A Lovely Day? 00:00 Tools
Basin Street Blues 00:00 Tools
Stairway To The Stars 00:00 Tools
Let's Face The Music And Dance 02:57 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 00:00 Tools
So In Love 00:00 Tools
Stars Fell On Alabama 00:00 Tools
I Am In Love 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) 00:00 Tools
Something's Gotta Give 00:00 Tools
Caravan 03:56 Tools
Bewitched 07:04 Tools
Looking For A Boy 00:00 Tools
Sophisticated Lady 05:22 Tools
Midnight Sun 03:58 Tools
Satin Doll 00:00 Tools
The First Noel 00:00 Tools
Rock It for Me 00:00 Tools
Ridin' High 00:00 Tools
Solitude 00:00 Tools
Ace In The Hole 00:00 Tools
I've Got The World On A String 00:00 Tools
A-tisket A-tasket 00:00 Tools
Embraceable You 04:51 Tools
Soon 00:00 Tools
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 02:22 Tools
Imagination 00:00 Tools
Solid as a Rock 02:59 Tools
Under a Blanket of Blue 00:00 Tools
They All Laughed 00:00 Tools
Christmas Island 00:00 Tools
Fever 00:00 Tools
Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today) 00:00 Tools
Every Time We Say Goodbye 00:00 Tools
It's De-Lovely 00:00 Tools
Wait Till You See Him (De-Phazz Remix) 03:53 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Love? 00:00 Tools
I'm Just A Lucky So And So 00:00 Tools
Makin' Whoopee 00:00 Tools
With A Song In My Heart 00:00 Tools
Love You Madly 00:00 Tools
Frosty the Snow Man 00:00 Tools
Let's Do It 00:00 Tools
Cow Cow Boogie 02:55 Tools
Stompin' At The Savoy 07:15 Tools
These Foolish Things 00:00 Tools
In A Sentimental Mood 02:48 Tools
Don't Be That Way 05:00 Tools
Stormy Weather 00:00 Tools
A Tisket A Tasket 00:00 Tools
I Can't Give You Anything But Love 00:00 Tools
Baby, It's Cold Outside 00:00 Tools
He Loves And She Loves 00:00 Tools
Fascinating Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Little White Lies 02:34 Tools
I'll Chase The Blues Away 00:00 Tools
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear 00:00 Tools
Cotton Tail 00:00 Tools
I Only Have Eyes for You 00:00 Tools
When I Get Low I Get High 00:00 Tools
Goody Goody 00:00 Tools
(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons 00:00 Tools
Azure 06:50 Tools
I Got a Guy 00:00 Tools
My Romance 00:00 Tools
One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) 00:00 Tools
Oh Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
I Could Write a Book 00:00 Tools
My Melancholy Baby 00:00 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Love 00:00 Tools
They Can’t Take That Away from Me 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started 03:34 Tools
I Want To Be Happy 00:00 Tools
All of Me 03:21 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It - Live 00:00 Tools
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight 03:27 Tools
Georgia On My Mind 00:00 Tools
Air Mail Special 00:00 Tools
The Very Thought of You 00:00 Tools
Over The Rainbow 03:39 Tools
Prelude To A Kiss 00:00 Tools
Slap That Bass 03:24 Tools
Why Can't You Behave? 00:00 Tools
September Song 03:38 Tools
Rockin' In Rhythm 05:21 Tools
People Will Say We're In Love 00:00 Tools
Get Ready 00:00 Tools
Sing Me a Swing Song 00:00 Tools
There's A Small Hotel 00:00 Tools
Mood Indigo 03:28 Tools
Shine 03:16 Tools
Dedicated to You 00:00 Tools
Stone Cold Dead in the Market 00:00 Tools
Sing Me a Swing Song (And Let Me Dance) 00:00 Tools
Hooray for Love 00:00 Tools
Lorelei 00:00 Tools
Take The "A" Train 00:00 Tools
The Way You Look Tonight 00:00 Tools
Lover Come Back to Me 00:00 Tools
Things Are Looking Up 00:00 Tools
Holiday in Harlem 00:00 Tools
Lush Life 00:00 Tools
Perdido 06:31 Tools
Our Love Is Here To Stay 00:00 Tools
Sugar Blues 00:00 Tools
Where Or When 00:00 Tools
All Too Soon 04:24 Tools
Guilty 00:00 Tools
Too Marvelous For Words 02:27 Tools
I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart 00:00 Tools
Everyone's Wrong But Me 00:00 Tools
Five O'Clock Whistle 00:00 Tools
Wait Till You See Her 00:00 Tools
Too Darn Hot (RAC Mix) 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul 00:00 Tools
Russian Lullaby 00:00 Tools
My Last Affair 00:00 Tools
If Dreams Come True 00:00 Tools
I Won't Dance 00:00 Tools
Come Rain Or Come Shine 00:00 Tools
Don't Get Around Much Anymore 00:00 Tools
Maybe 00:00 Tools
Sam And Delilah 00:00 Tools
Silent Night 00:00 Tools
Always 00:00 Tools
A Ship Without A Sail 00:00 Tools
Lover 00:00 Tools
Rough Ridin' 00:00 Tools
Ev'rything I've Got 00:00 Tools
Drop Me Off In Harlem 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean a Thing 00:00 Tools
That's My Desire 00:00 Tools
Gone With The Wind 00:00 Tools
I Was Doing All Right 00:00 Tools
My Man 00:00 Tools
Sentimental Journey 00:00 Tools
That Certain Feeling 00:00 Tools
Always True To You In My Fashion 00:00 Tools
Blues In The Night 00:00 Tools
Somebody Loves Me 00:00 Tools
Taking a Chance On Love 00:00 Tools
This Time The Dream's On Me 00:00 Tools
My Happiness 00:00 Tools
Reaching For The Moon 00:00 Tools
Isn't It Romantic 00:00 Tools
You Took Advantage Of Me 00:00 Tools
Angel Eyes (Layo & Bushwacka Mix) 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know About You 00:00 Tools
This Can't Be Love 00:00 Tools
If You Ever Should Leave 00:00 Tools
Crying My Heart out for You 00:00 Tools
You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart) 00:00 Tools
Nature Boy 02:27 Tools
It's A Pity To Say Goodnight 00:00 Tools
Love And Kisses 00:00 Tools
A Little Bit Later On 00:00 Tools
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve 00:00 Tools
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered 00:00 Tools
Day Dream 00:00 Tools
Heat Wave 00:00 Tools
Wacky Dust 00:00 Tools
What Is There To Say? 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues 00:00 Tools
I'm Glad There Is You 00:00 Tools
Medley: We Three Kings Of Orient Are/O Little Town Of Bethlehem 03:35 Tools
At Last 00:00 Tools
O Holy Night 00:00 Tools
I'm Just a Lucky So-And-So 00:00 Tools
I'm Making Believe 00:00 Tools
I Remember You 00:00 Tools
Sing Song Swing 00:00 Tools
Petootie Pie 00:00 Tools
Early Autumn 00:00 Tools
Desafinado 02:10 Tools
I'm Old Fashioned 00:00 Tools
By Strauss 00:00 Tools
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive 00:00 Tools
I Wants To Stay Here 00:00 Tools
Strike Up The Band 00:00 Tools
All Over Nothing At All 00:00 Tools
Clap Yo' Hands 00:00 Tools
Just Another Rhumba 00:00 Tools
Airmail Special 00:00 Tools
Can't Buy Me Love 02:39 Tools
Have You Met Miss Jones? 00:00 Tools
Who Cares? 00:00 Tools
Happy Talk 00:00 Tools
Sunny 05:18 Tools
When I Get Low, I Get High 00:00 Tools
Who Walks in When I Walk Out 00:00 Tools
Clementine 00:00 Tools
I've got my love to keep me wa 00:00 Tools
Just A Simple Melody 00:00 Tools
It's Wonderful 00:00 Tools
Stardust 00:00 Tools
Ella 00:00 Tools
You're Laughing At Me 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Were In Love Again 00:00 Tools
The Frim Fram Sauce 00:00 Tools
Who Walks In When I Walk Out? 00:00 Tools
Laura 03:43 Tools
St. Louis Blues 03:55 Tools
Don't Worry 'Bout Me 00:00 Tools
Bidin' My Time 00:00 Tools
Why Was I Born? 00:00 Tools
To Keep My Love Alive 00:00 Tools
All By Myself 00:00 Tools
Please Be Kind 00:00 Tools
All My Life 00:00 Tools
Love Walked In 00:00 Tools
And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine 00:00 Tools
It Never Entered My Mind 00:00 Tools
When A Woman Loves A Man 03:51 Tools
That Old Feeling 00:00 Tools
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 00:00 Tools
Rocks In My Bed 00:00 Tools
Goodnight My Love 00:00 Tools
Would You Like To Take A Walk? 00:00 Tools
It's A Lovely Day Today 00:00 Tools
Skylark 03:11 Tools
A Tisket, A Tasket 00:00 Tools
One for My Baby 00:00 Tools
Cry You Out Of My Heart 00:00 Tools
Boy Wanted 00:00 Tools
Stiff Upper Lip 00:00 Tools
Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 00:00 Tools
Mountain Greenery 00:00 Tools
Can't We Be Friends 00:00 Tools
I Hear Music 00:00 Tools
Slap That Bass (Miguel Migs Petalpusher Remix) 00:00 Tools
Let Yourself Go 00:00 Tools
Out Of This World 00:00 Tools
Until The Real Thing Comes Along 00:00 Tools
My Cousin In Milwaukee 00:00 Tools
You won't be satisfied (Until 00:00 Tools
Take the 'a' Train 00:00 Tools
How Long Has This Been Going On 00:00 Tools
The Dipsy Doodle 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Mean a Word I Said 00:00 Tools
The Best Is Yet To Come 00:00 Tools
Get Thee Behind Me Satan 00:00 Tools
How High The Moon - 1st Take 00:00 Tools
Thou Swell 00:00 Tools
Hard Hearted Hannah 00:00 Tools
As Long As I Live 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Blue 00:00 Tools
Night & Day 00:00 Tools
I Hadn't Anyone Till You 00:00 Tools
Alexander's Ragtime Band 00:00 Tools
Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin' 00:00 Tools
Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You 00:00 Tools
Love Is Sweeping The Country 00:00 Tools
Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own 00:00 Tools
I Can't Be Bothered Now 00:00 Tools
For You, for Me, for Evermore 00:00 Tools
Spring Is Here 00:00 Tools
Treat Me Rough 00:00 Tools
Baby, What Else Can I Do? 00:00 Tools
Air Mail Special (Club Des Belugas Remix) 00:00 Tools
Somebody From Somewhere 00:00 Tools
It's a Blue World 00:00 Tools
You Leave Me Breathless 00:00 Tools
Lazy 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) 00:00 Tools
Isn't It a Pity? 03:26 Tools
Just You, Just Me 00:00 Tools
Let's Begin 00:00 Tools
On the Sunny Side of the Street 00:00 Tools
Johnny One Note 00:00 Tools
Wait Till You See Him 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know What Time It Was 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays 00:00 Tools
Shake Down the Stars 00:00 Tools
It Might As Well Be Spring 00:00 Tools
Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
I Used To Be Color Blind 00:00 Tools
The Muffin Man 00:00 Tools
How About Me? 00:00 Tools
You Can Have Him 00:00 Tools
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' 03:54 Tools
Slap The Bass (Miguel Migs Petalpusher Mix) 00:00 Tools
It's DeLovely 00:00 Tools
I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket 00:00 Tools
There's a boat dat's leavin' s 00:00 Tools
You've Got What Gets Me 00:00 Tools
I Found My Yellow Basket 00:00 Tools
Summertime (With Louis Armstrong) 04:56 Tools
(I've Got) Beginner's Luck 00:00 Tools
When My Sugar Walks Down the Street 00:00 Tools
Lost In Meditation 00:00 Tools
Somebody Nobody Loves 03:12 Tools
You'll Have To Swing It (Mr. Paganini) 00:00 Tools
Shiny Stockings 00:00 Tools
Old Devil Moon 00:00 Tools
Let's Kiss And Make Up 00:00 Tools
A Sunday Kind Of Love 00:00 Tools
Three Little Words 00:00 Tools
Stella By Starlight 00:00 Tools
He's My Guy 00:00 Tools
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 00:00 Tools
Here In My Arms 00:00 Tools
Isn't It Romantic? 00:00 Tools
Vote For Mr. Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Now It Can Be Told 00:00 Tools
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon 00:00 Tools
Cryin' Mood 00:00 Tools
You Turned the Tables on Me 00:00 Tools
I Get A Kick Out Of You (Cinematic Orchestra Remix) 00:00 Tools
Cheerful Little Earful 00:00 Tools
Betcha Nickel 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Got Nothing but the Blues 00:00 Tools
Boy! What Love Has Done to Me! 00:00 Tools
My Heart Stood Still 00:00 Tools
The Starlit Hour 00:00 Tools
Whatever Lola Wants 03:16 Tools
The Real American Folk Song 00:00 Tools
Oh, Lady Be Good! 00:00 Tools
Big Boy Blue 00:00 Tools
Angels We Have Heard On High 00:00 Tools
(I'm) Always True To You In My Fashion 00:00 Tools
O Little Town of Bethlehem 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown 00:00 Tools
Goodnight, My Love 00:00 Tools
I'm Always True To You In My Fashion 03:16 Tools
Organ Grinder's Swing 00:00 Tools
Once Too Often 00:00 Tools
It Was Written In The Stars 00:00 Tools
Joy to the World 00:00 Tools
Mr. Paganini 00:00 Tools
Oh, So Nice 00:00 Tools
Ten Cents A Dance 00:00 Tools
You Won't Be Satisfied 00:00 Tools
Good Morning Heartache 00:00 Tools
Squatty Roo 00:00 Tools
A Kiss Goodnight 00:00 Tools
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most 00:00 Tools
The Man That Got Away 00:00 Tools
Give It Back To The Indians 00:00 Tools
It Ain't Necessarily So 00:00 Tools
Change Partners 00:00 Tools
Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me 00:00 Tools
Ill Wind 00:00 Tools
You Hit the Spot 00:00 Tools
Remember 00:00 Tools
My One And Only Love 00:00 Tools
Everything But You 00:00 Tools
Aren't You Kind Of Glad We Did? 00:00 Tools
We Three Kings 00:00 Tools
Dancing On The Ceiling 00:00 Tools
I Cried for You 00:00 Tools
I've Got Five Dollars 00:00 Tools
Wait 'Till You See Him (De-Phazz remix) 03:53 Tools
Isn't This a Lovely Day 00:00 Tools
Slap That Bass - Miguel Migs Petalpusher Remix 00:00 Tools
Thanks For The Memory 00:00 Tools
Comes Love 00:00 Tools
Rhythm And Romance 00:00 Tools
Time Alone Will Tell 00:00 Tools
Bli-Blip 00:00 Tools
You'll Have to Swing It 00:00 Tools
Santa Claus Got Stuck (In My Chimney) 00:00 Tools
Them There Eyes 00:00 Tools
Angel Eyes (Layo & Bushwacka Remix) 05:31 Tools
Oh! Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
You Showed Me The Way 00:00 Tools
All That Jazz 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep for Me 00:00 Tools
Of Thee I Sing (Baby) 00:00 Tools
How Deep Is The Ocean? 00:00 Tools
Slumming On Park Avenue 00:00 Tools
I Wished On the Moon 00:00 Tools
Reach for Tomorrow 00:00 Tools
More Than You Know 00:00 Tools
You'll Never Know 00:00 Tools
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer 00:00 Tools
There's a Lull In My Life 00:00 Tools
'Deed I Do 00:00 Tools
Just Squeeze Me 00:00 Tools
Blue Skies (Maya Jane Coles Remix) 00:00 Tools
Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer 00:00 Tools
We Can't Go on This Way 00:00 Tools
Starlit Hour 00:00 Tools
Tea For Two 00:00 Tools
You Keep Coming Back Like A Song 00:00 Tools
Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You? 00:00 Tools
Under The Spell Of The Blues 00:00 Tools
My Man's Gone Now 00:00 Tools
Too Close for Comfort 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose 00:00 Tools
Lets Do It (Lets Fall In Love) 00:00 Tools
Wave 00:00 Tools
Mas Que Nada 00:00 Tools
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' - Mono 00:00 Tools
Trav'lin' Light 00:00 Tools
Chelsea Bridge 00:00 Tools
Putting On The Ritz 02:18 Tools
In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down) 04:30 Tools
They Can't Take That Away From 00:00 Tools
It's My Turn Now 00:00 Tools
Hey Jude 00:00 Tools
I Loves You Porgy 00:00 Tools
You're My Thrill 00:00 Tools
You Make Me Feel So Young 00:00 Tools
If U Cant Swing It 00:00 Tools
Give Me The Simple Life 00:00 Tools
This Love Of Mine 00:00 Tools
You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me 00:00 Tools
No Strings (I'm Fancy Free) 00:00 Tools
My Shining Hour 00:00 Tools
You're an Old Smoothie 00:00 Tools
Jersey Bounce 00:00 Tools
Blue Lou 00:00 Tools
Oops! 00:00 Tools
If I Were A Bell 00:00 Tools
Ella's Contribution to the Blues 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Hard To Handle 00:00 Tools
You Couldn't Be Cuter 00:00 Tools
The Girl From Ipanema 00:00 Tools
O Come All Ye Faithful 02:45 Tools
Why Can't You Behave 00:00 Tools
I Never Had a Chance 00:00 Tools
Jim 00:00 Tools
I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town 00:00 Tools
She Didn't Say Yes 00:00 Tools
Then You've Never Been Blue 00:00 Tools
Oh, Lady, Be Good! 03:06 Tools
Deedle-De-Dum 00:00 Tools
Street of Dreams 00:00 Tools
Bess You Is My Woman Now 00:00 Tools
Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead 00:00 Tools
How Deep is the Ocean 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad 00:00 Tools
When The Sun Comes Out 00:00 Tools
Duke's Place 00:00 Tools
Everybody Step 00:00 Tools
Sing My Heart 00:00 Tools
Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe 00:00 Tools
Who's Sorry Now 00:00 Tools
Suppertime 00:00 Tools
The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) 00:00 Tools
One Note Samba 00:00 Tools
Let It Snow 00:00 Tools
Star Dust 00:00 Tools
Frosty, The Snowman 00:00 Tools
Let's Take A Walk Around The Block 00:00 Tools
Shall We Dance 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good 00:00 Tools
Necessary Evil 00:00 Tools
Wait Till You See Him - De-Phazz Remix 00:00 Tools
What Will I Tell My Heart 00:00 Tools
Witchcraft 00:00 Tools
Angel Eyes - Layo & Bushwacka Remix 00:00 Tools
Let's Do It - Let's Fall in Love 00:00 Tools
How High the Moon? 00:00 Tools
Lover, Come Back to Me 00:00 Tools
Remind Me 00:00 Tools
Imagine My Frustration 00:00 Tools
Away in a Manger 00:00 Tools
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - Remastered 00:00 Tools
The Boy From Ipanema 00:00 Tools
My Old Flame 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair 00:00 Tools
My Heart And I Decided 00:00 Tools
Love Me or Leave Me 00:00 Tools
Top Hat, White Tie and Tails 00:00 Tools
Can Anyone Explain? 00:00 Tools
When Your Lover Has Gone 00:00 Tools
Hawaiian War Chant (Ta 00:00 Tools
Wait Till You See Him (de Phazz Remix) 00:00 Tools
Old McDonald 00:00 Tools
Benny's Coming Home On Saturday 00:00 Tools
You Don't Know What Love Is 03:26 Tools
Signing Off 00:00 Tools
What Are You Doing New Years Eve? 00:00 Tools
I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 00:00 Tools
Knock Me a Kiss 00:00 Tools
Buzzard Song 00:00 Tools
Beginner's Luck 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah 02:34 Tools
Too Young For The Blues 00:00 Tools
Trouble In Mind 00:00 Tools
Useless Landscape 00:00 Tools
The Blue Room 00:00 Tools
Sweet and Slow 00:00 Tools
You Go to My Head 00:00 Tools
I Got the Spring Fever Blues 00:00 Tools
Lover Man 00:00 Tools
Swingin' Shepherd Blues 00:00 Tools
Day In, Day Out 00:00 Tools
Heart and Soul 00:00 Tools
Out of Nowhere 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Be Free 00:00 Tools
Santa Claus Got Stuck up My Chimney 00:00 Tools
How Long, How Long Blues 00:00 Tools
Oh, Doctor Jesus 00:00 Tools
For Sentimental Reasons 00:00 Tools
I'm Just A Jitterbug 00:00 Tools
Everytime We Say Goodbye 03:34 Tools
The Song Is Ended (But The Melody Lingers On) 00:00 Tools
Somewhere Over the Rainbow 00:00 Tools
Got to Get You Into My Life 00:00 Tools
There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York 00:00 Tools
Oh Lady, Be good 00:00 Tools
Dreams Are Made For Children 00:00 Tools
Teardrops from My Eyes 00:00 Tools
This Year's Kisses 00:00 Tools
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen 00:00 Tools
Saving Myself for You 00:00 Tools
O Holy Night - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Savoy Truffle 02:47 Tools
Blue Room 00:00 Tools
Goody, Goody 00:00 Tools
How About Me 00:00 Tools
I'm Puttin' All My Eggs In One Basket 00:00 Tools
Fine Romance 00:00 Tools
I'm Alway True to You In My Fashion 00:00 Tools
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby 07:00 Tools
I Gotta Have My Baby Back 00:00 Tools
Like Someone In Love 00:00 Tools
Little Jazz 00:00 Tools
Ain't Misbehavin' 00:00 Tools
Mack The Knife - Live In Berlin/1960 00:00 Tools
Whisper Not 00:00 Tools
Darn That Dream 00:00 Tools
I Thought About You 00:00 Tools
Gulf Coast Blues 00:00 Tools
My Reverie 00:00 Tools
Single-O 00:00 Tools
Don'cha Go 'Way Mad 00:00 Tools
Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time) 00:00 Tools
Moon Ray 00:00 Tools
Bei mir bist du schön 00:00 Tools
Top Hat, White Tie, And Tails 00:00 Tools
I Loves You, Porgy 00:00 Tools
In the evening when the sun goes down 00:00 Tools
Puttin on the Ritz 00:00 Tools
Ella Hums The Blues 00:00 Tools
She's Funny That Way 00:00 Tools
Mack the Knife (Live) 00:00 Tools
You Don't Know My Mind 00:00 Tools
Moonlight Becomes You 00:00 Tools
Something To Live For 00:00 Tools
Hernando's Hideaway 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Fall in Love Again 02:51 Tools
Ev'ry Time We Say Good-Bye 00:00 Tools
Almost Like Being In Love 00:00 Tools
After You've Gone 00:00 Tools
Make Love To Me 00:00 Tools
Do I Love You 00:00 Tools
It's Only Love 00:00 Tools
You've Changed 00:00 Tools
Cherry Red 00:00 Tools
Call Me Darling 00:00 Tools
Bonita 00:00 Tools
Triste 00:00 Tools
My Kinda Love 00:00 Tools
That's The Way It Is 00:00 Tools
Hello Dolly 00:00 Tools
Dindi 00:00 Tools
Baby Won't You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
Old Mother Hubbard 00:00 Tools
Sleigh Ride (The Latin Project remix) 00:00 Tools
The First Noel - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow 00:00 Tools
(You'll Have To Swing It) Mr. Paganini 00:00 Tools
What Are You Doing New Years Eve? (Mangini vs. Pallin Mix) 00:00 Tools
Bess, You Is My Woman Now 05:20 Tools
Fascinatin' Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Take Love Easy 00:00 Tools
Learnin' The Blues 00:00 Tools
Oh, Lady, Be Good 00:00 Tools
Have You Met Miss Jones 00:00 Tools
Blue Skies - Maya Jane Coles Remix 00:00 Tools
I Still Feel the Same About You 00:00 Tools
Two Little Men In A Flying Saucer - Single Version 03:23 Tools
Day in-Day Out 00:00 Tools
What You Want Wid Bess? 00:00 Tools
Airmail Special - Club Des Belugas Remix 00:00 Tools
(I Was) Born to Be Blue 00:00 Tools
Hello, Dolly! 00:00 Tools
O Come All Ye Faithful - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Mean to Me 00:00 Tools
Hear Me Talking To Ya 00:00 Tools
The E and D Blues (E for Ella, D for Duke) 00:00 Tools
Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) 00:00 Tools
Every Time We Say Good-Bye 00:00 Tools
Good Morning Christmas Blues 00:00 Tools
Oh, Lady Be Good (1947 Version) 00:00 Tools
Gotta Be This or That 00:00 Tools
What Are You Doing New Years 00:00 Tools
The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else 00:00 Tools
Marshmallow World 02:56 Tools
i get a kick out of you - cinematic orchestra remix 00:00 Tools
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Robbin's Nest 00:00 Tools
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How Deep Is The Ocean (How High Is The Sky) 00:00 Tools
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One Side of Me 00:00 Tools
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Baby, Don't You Go 'way Mad 00:00 Tools
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What's New 00:00 Tools
Don't Cry, Cry Baby 00:00 Tools
The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game 00:00 Tools
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Everything Happens to Me 00:00 Tools
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Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? 00:00 Tools
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You Can Depend On Me 00:00 Tools
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Abide With Me 03:14 Tools
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If You Ever Change Your Mind 00:00 Tools
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My Baby Likes to Bebop 00:00 Tools
Keep Cool, Fool 00:00 Tools
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I Don't Want to Take a Chance 00:00 Tools
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My Last Goodbye 00:00 Tools
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All Or Nothing at All 00:00 Tools
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Of Thee I Sing 00:00 Tools
Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year 00:00 Tools
Ambulatory Suite 00:00 Tools
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (Charles Webster Remix) 00:00 Tools
Too Close For Comfort - Live in Japan (January 19, 1964) 00:00 Tools
Water to drink (Agua de beber) 00:00 Tools
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Paper Moon 00:00 Tools
I Love Being Here With You - Live in Japan (January 19, 1964) 00:00 Tools
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If You Only Knew 00:00 Tools
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After I Say I'm Sorry 00:00 Tools
Lullaby Of The Leaves 02:54 Tools
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I Can't Stop Loving You 00:00 Tools
A Man and a Woman 00:00 Tools
Fine And Mellow 00:00 Tools
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Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
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Sweet and Lovely 00:00 Tools
Knock on Wood 00:00 Tools
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Oh, Yes, Take Another Guess 00:00 Tools
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye 00:00 Tools
The Old Rugged Cross 00:00 Tools
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This Time It's Real 00:00 Tools
One for My Baby (And One for the Road) 00:00 Tools
"the Half of It, Dearie" Blues 00:00 Tools
This Girl's In Love With You 00:00 Tools
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Deep Purple 00:00 Tools
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Let It Snow! 00:00 Tools
T'aint What You Do 00:00 Tools
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This Love That I've Found 00:00 Tools
Travelin' Light 00:00 Tools
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Like Young 00:00 Tools
No Sense 00:00 Tools
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Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald 00:00 Tools
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As Time Goes By 00:00 Tools
Baby Its Cold Outside 00:00 Tools
Baby What Else Can I Do 00:00 Tools
Days Of Wine And Roses 00:00 Tools
Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way 00:00 Tools
My Melancholy Baby (03-17-36) 00:00 Tools
Can Anyone Explain 00:00 Tools
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Get Ready (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
You Can't Be Mine 00:00 Tools
Gypsy in My Soul 00:00 Tools
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I Wonder Why 00:00 Tools
(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have To Swing It 00:00 Tools
You're The Top (Alternative Take) 00:00 Tools
Born To Be Blue 00:00 Tools
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Stone Cold Dead in De Market 00:00 Tools
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I Let a Tear Fall in the River 00:00 Tools
Dream a Little Dream 00:00 Tools
Angels We Have Heard On High - 2006 Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Why Don't You Do Right 00:00 Tools
Wait Till You See Him [De-Phazz Remix] 00:00 Tools
'Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) 00:00 Tools
Rock Of Ages, Cleft For Me 00:00 Tools
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'Tis Autumn 00:00 Tools
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Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (12-21-37) 00:00 Tools
In the Garden 00:00 Tools
I Need Thee Every Hour 00:00 Tools
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Louisville K-Y 00:00 Tools
White Christmas (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
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Misty (1960 Version) 00:00 Tools
Love, You're Just A Laugh 00:00 Tools
Whatever Lola Wants - Live in Japan (January 19, 1964) 00:00 Tools
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I Could Have Danced All Night 00:00 Tools
Into Each Life 00:00 Tools
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Some Other Spring 00:00 Tools
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My Man (Mon Homme) 00:00 Tools
Why Was I Born 00:00 Tools
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I Need 00:00 Tools
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Darktown Strutters Ball 00:00 Tools
What a Friend We Have in Jesus 00:00 Tools
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You Can't Be Mine (And Someone Else's Too) 00:00 Tools
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Louisville, KY 00:00 Tools
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Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz vocalist with a vocal range spanning three octaves (D♭3 to D♭6). Often referred to as the "First Lady of Song" and the "Queen of Jazz," she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. Fitzgerald was a notable interpreter of the Great American Songbook. Over the course of her 60-year recording career, she sold 40 million copies of her 70-plus albums, won 14 Grammy Awards and received during her career many other major awards and honors. Early life Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia, the daughter of William Fitzgerald and Temperance "Tempie" Fitzgerald. Her parents were unmarried, and they had separated within a year of her birth. With her mother's new partner, a Portuguese immigrant named Joseph Da Silva, Ella and her mother moved to the city of Yonkers, in Westchester County, New York, as part of the first Great Migration of African Americans. Initially living in a single room, her mother and Da Silva soon found jobs and Ella's half-sister, Frances Da Silva, was born in 1923. By 1925, Fitzgerald and her family had moved to nearby School Street, then a predominantly poor Italian area. At the age of six, Fitzgerald began her formal education, and moved through a variety of schools before attending Benjamin Franklin Junior High School from 1929. Fitzgerald had been passionate about dancing from third grade, being a fan of Earl "Snakehips" Tucker in particular, and would perform for her peers on the way to school and at lunchtime. Fitzgerald and her family were Methodists and were active in the Bethany African Methodist Episcopal Church, and she regularly attended worship services, Bible study, and Sunday school. The church would have provided Fitzgerald with her earliest experiences in formal music making, and she may have also had piano lessons during this period if her mother could afford it. In her youth, Fitzgerald wanted to be a dancer, although she loved listening to jazz recordings by Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and The Boswell Sisters. She idolized the lead singer Connee Boswell, later saying, "My mother brought home one of her records, and I fell in love with it....I tried so hard to sound just like her." In 1932, her mother died from a heart attack. Following this trauma, Fitzgerald's grades dropped dramatically, and she frequently skipped school. Abused by her stepfather, she ran away to her aunt and, at one point, worked as a lookout at a bordello and also with a Mafia-affiliated numbers runner. When the authorities caught up with her, she was first placed in the Colored Orphan Asylum in Riverdale, Bronx. However, when the orphanage proved too crowded, she was moved to the New York Training School for Girls in Hudson, New York, a state reformatory. Eventually she escaped and for a time she was homeless. Early career She made her singing debut at 17 on November 21, 1934, at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York. She pulled in a weekly audience at the Apollo and won the opportunity to compete in one of the earliest of its famous "Amateur Nights". She had originally intended to go on stage and dance, but, intimidated by the Edwards Sisters, a local dance duo, she opted to sing instead in the style of Connee Boswell. She sang Boswell's "Judy" and "The Object of My Affection," a song recorded by the Boswell Sisters, and won the first prize of US$25.00. In January 1935, Fitzgerald won the chance to perform for a week with the Tiny Bradshaw band at the Harlem Opera House. She met drummer and bandleader Chick Webb there. Webb had already hired singer Charlie Linton to work with the band and was, The New York Times later wrote, "reluctant to sign her....because she was gawky and unkempt, a diamond in the rough." Webb offered her the opportunity to test with his band when they played a dance at Yale University. She began singing regularly with Webb's Orchestra through 1935 at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom. Fitzgerald recorded several hit songs with them, including "Love and Kisses" and "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)".[10] But it was her 1938 version of the nursery rhyme, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket", a song she co-wrote, that brought her wide public acclaim. Chick Webb died on June 16, 1939, and his band was renamed Ella and her Famous Orchestra with Ella taking on the role of nominal bandleader. Fitzgerald recorded nearly 150 songs with the orchestra before it broke up in 1942, "the majority of them novelties and disposable pop fluff". Decca years Fitzgerald performing with Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt Jackson and Timme Rosenkrantz in September 1947, New York In 1942, Fitzgerald left the band to begin a solo career. Now signed to the Decca label, she had several popular hits while recording with such artists as Bill Kenny & The Ink Spots, Louis Jordan, and The Delta Rhythm Boys. With Decca's Milt Gabler as her manager, she began working regularly for the jazz impresario Norman Granz and appeared regularly in his Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) concerts. Fitzgerald's relationship with Granz was further cemented when he became her manager, although it would be nearly a decade before he could record her on one of his many record labels. With the demise of the Swing era and the decline of the great touring big bands, a major change in jazz music occurred. The advent of bebop led to new developments in Fitzgerald's vocal style, influenced by her work with Dizzy Gillespie's big band. It was in this period that Fitzgerald started including scat singing as a major part of her performance repertoire. While singing with Gillespie, Fitzgerald recalled, "I just tried to do [with my voice] what I heard the horns in the band doing." Her 1945 scat recording of "Flying Home" arranged by Vic Schoen would later be described by The New York Times as "one of the most influential vocal jazz records of the decade....Where other singers, most notably Louis Armstrong, had tried similar improvisation, no one before Miss Fitzgerald employed the technique with such dazzling inventiveness." Her bebop recording of "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (1947) was similarly popular and increased her reputation as one of the leading jazz vocalists. Verve years Fitzgerald was still performing at Granz's JATP concerts by 1955. She left Decca and Granz, now her manager, created Verve Records around her. Fitzgerald later described the period as strategically crucial, saying, "I had gotten to the point where I was only singing be-bop. I thought be-bop was 'it', and that all I had to do was go some place and sing bop. But it finally got to the point where I had no place to sing. I realized then that there was more to music than bop. Norman ... felt that I should do other things, so he produced The Cole Porter Songbook with me. It was a turning point in my life." Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, released in 1956, was the first of eight Songbook sets Fitzgerald would record for Verve at irregular intervals from 1956 to 1964. The composers and lyricists spotlighted on each set, taken together, represent the greatest part of the cultural canon known as the Great American Songbook. Her song selections ranged from standards to rarities and represented an attempt by Fitzgerald to cross over into a non-jazz audience. The sets are the most well-known items in her discography. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book was the only Songbook on which the composer she interpreted played with her. Duke Ellington and his longtime collaborator Billy Strayhorn both appeared on exactly half the set's 38 tracks and wrote two new pieces of music for the album: "The E and D Blues" and a four-movement musical portrait of Fitzgerald (the only Songbook track on which Fitzgerald does not sing). The Songbook series ended up becoming the singer's most critically acclaimed and commercially successful work, and probably her most significant offering to American culture. The New York Times wrote in 1996, "These albums were among the first pop records to devote such serious attention to individual songwriters, and they were instrumental in establishing the pop album as a vehicle for serious musical exploration." A few days after Fitzgerald's death, The New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote that in the Songbook series Fitzgerald "performed a cultural transaction as extraordinary as Elvis' contemporaneous integration of white and African American soul. Here was a black woman popularizing urban songs often written by immigrant Jews to a national audience of predominantly white Christians." Frank Sinatra was moved out of respect for Fitzgerald to block Capitol Records from re-releasing his own recordings in a similar, single composer vein. Fitzgerald also recorded albums exclusively devoted to the songs of Porter and Gershwin in 1972 and 1983; the albums being, respectively, Ella Loves Cole and Nice Work If You Can Get It. A later collection devoted to a single composer was released during her time with Pablo Records, Ella Abraça Jobim, featuring the songs of Antônio Carlos Jobim. While recording the Songbooks and the occasional studio album, Fitzgerald toured 40 to 45 weeks per year in the United States and internationally, under the tutelage of Norman Granz. Granz helped solidify her position as one of the leading live jazz performers. On March 15, 1955 Ella Fitzgerald opened her initial engagement at the Mocambo nightclub in Hollywood, after Marilyn Monroe lobbied the owner for the booking. The booking was instrumental in Fitzgerald's career. The incident was turned into a play by Bonnie Greer in 2005. It has been widely reported that Fitzgerald was the first Black performer to play the Mocambo, following Monroe's intervention, but this is not true. African-American singers Herb Jefferies, Eartha Kitt, and Joyce Bryan all played the Mocambo in 1952 and 1953, according to stories published at the time in Jet magazine and Billboard. There are several live albums on Verve that are highly regarded by critics. Ella at the Opera House shows a typical JATP set from Fitzgerald. Ella in Rome and Twelve Nights in Hollywood display her vocal jazz canon. Ella in Berlin is still one of her best selling albums; it includes a Grammy-winning performance of "Mack the Knife" in which she forgets the lyrics, but improvises magnificently to compensate. Verve Records was sold to MGM in 1963 for $3 million and in 1967 MGM failed to renew Fitzgerald's contract. Over the next five years she flitted between Atlantic, Capitol and Reprise. Her material at this time represented a departure from her typical jazz repertoire. For Capitol she recorded Brighten the Corner, an album of hymns, Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas, an album of traditional Christmas carols, Misty Blue, a country and western-influenced album, and 30 by Ella, a series of six medleys that fulfilled her obligations for the label. During this period, she had her last US chart single with a cover of Smokey Robinson's "Get Ready", previously a hit for The Temptations, and some months later a top-five hit for Rare Earth. The surprise success of the 1972 album Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72 led Granz to found Pablo Records, his first record label since the sale of Verve. Fitzgerald recorded some 20 albums for the label. Ella in London recorded live in 1974 with pianist Tommy Flanagan, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Keter Betts and drummer Bobby Durham, was considered by many to be some of her best work. The following year she again performed with Joe Pass on German television station NDR in Hamburg. Her years with Pablo Records also documented the decline in her voice. "She frequently used shorter, stabbing phrases, and her voice was harder, with a wider vibrato", one biographer wrote. Plagued by health problems, Fitzgerald made her last recording in 1991 and her last public performances in 1993. Film and television In her most notable screen role, Fitzgerald played the part of singer Maggie Jackson in Jack Webb's 1955 jazz film Pete Kelly's Blues. The film costarred Janet Leigh and singer Peggy Lee. Even though she had already worked in the movies (she had sung briefly in the 1942 Abbott and Costello film Ride 'Em Cowboy), she was "delighted" when Norman Granz negotiated the role for her, and, "at the time....considered her role in the Warner Brothers movie the biggest thing ever to have happened to her." Amid The New York Times pan of the film when it opened in August 1955, the reviewer wrote, "About five minutes (out of ninety-five) suggest the picture this might have been. Take the ingenious prologue ... [or] take the fleeting scenes when the wonderful Ella Fitzgerald, allotted a few spoken lines, fills the screen and sound track with her strong mobile features and voice." Fitzgerald's race precluded major big-screen success. After Pete Kelly's Blues, she appeared in sporadic movie cameos, in St. Louis Blues (1958), and Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960). Much later, she appeared in the 1980s television drama The White Shadow. She made numerous guest appearances on television shows, singing on The Frank Sinatra Show, The Andy Williams Show, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, and alongside other greats Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Mel Tormé, and many others. She was also frequently featured on The Ed Sullivan Show. Perhaps her most unusual and intriguing performance was of the "Three Little Maids" song from Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta The Mikado alongside Joan Sutherland and Dinah Shore on Shore's weekly variety series in 1963. A performance at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London was filmed and shown on the BBC. Fitzgerald also made a one-off appearance alongside Sarah Vaughan and Pearl Bailey on a 1979 television special honoring Bailey. In 1980, she performed a medley of standards in a duet with Karen Carpenter on the Carpenters' television program Music, Music, Music. Fitzgerald also appeared in TV commercials, her most memorable being an ad for Memorex. In the commercials, she sang a note that shattered a glass while being recorded on a Memorex cassette tape. The tape was played back and the recording also broke the glass, asking: "Is it live, or is it Memorex?" She also starred in a number of commercials for Kentucky Fried Chicken, singing and scatting to the fast-food chain's longtime slogan, "We do chicken right!" Her final commercial campaign was for American Express, in which she was photographed by Annie Leibovitz. Collaborations Fitzgerald's most famous collaborations were with the vocal quartet Bill Kenny & The Ink Spots, trumpeter Louis Armstrong, the guitarist Joe Pass, and the bandleaders Count Basie and Duke Ellington. From 1943 to 1950, Fitzgerald recorded seven songs with The Ink Spots featuring Bill Kenny. Out of all seven recordings, four reached the top of the pop charts including "I'm Making Believe" and "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" which both reached #1. Fitzgerald recorded three Verve studio albums with Armstrong, two albums of standards (1956's Ella and Louis and 1957's Ella and Louis Again), and a third album featured music from the Gershwin musical Porgy and Bess. Fitzgerald also recorded a number of sides with Armstrong for Decca in the early 1950s. Fitzgerald is sometimes referred to as the quintessential swing singer, and her meetings with Count Basie are highly regarded by critics. Fitzgerald features on one track on Basie's 1957 album One O'Clock Jump, while her 1963 album Ella and Basie! is remembered as one of her greatest recordings. With the 'New Testament' Basie band in full swing, and arrangements written by a young Quincy Jones, this album proved a respite from the 'Songbook' recordings and constant touring that Fitzgerald was engaged in during this period. Fitzgerald and Basie also collaborated on the 1972 album Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72, and on the 1979 albums Digital III at Montreux, A Classy Pair and A Perfect Match. Fitzgerald and Joe Pass recorded four albums together toward the end of Fitzgerald's career. She recorded several albums with piano accompaniment, but a guitar proved the perfect melodic foil for her. Fitzgerald and Pass appeared together on the albums Take Love Easy (1973), Easy Living (1986), Speak Love (1983) and Fitzgerald and Pass... Again (1976). Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington recorded two live albums, and two studio albums. Her Duke Ellington Songbook placed Ellington firmly in the canon known as the Great American Songbook, and the 1960s saw Fitzgerald and the 'Duke' meet on the Côte d'Azur for the 1966 album Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur, and in Sweden for The Stockholm Concert, 1966. Their 1965 album Ella at Duke's Place is also extremely well received. Fitzgerald had a number of famous jazz musicians and soloists as sidemen over her long career. The trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie, the guitarist Herb Ellis, and the pianists Tommy Flanagan, Oscar Peterson, Lou Levy, Paul Smith, Jimmy Rowles, and Ellis Larkins all worked with Ella mostly in live, small group settings. Possibly Fitzgerald's greatest unrealized collaboration (in terms of popular music) was a studio or live album with Frank Sinatra. The two appeared on the same stage only periodically over the years, in television specials in 1958 and 1959, and again on 1967's A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim, a show that also featured Antônio Carlos Jobim. Pianist Paul Smith has said, "Ella loved working with [Frank]. Sinatra gave her his dressing-room on A Man and His Music and couldn't do enough for her." When asked, Norman Granz would cite "complex contractual reasons" for the fact that the two artists never recorded together. Fitzgerald's appearance with Sinatra and Count Basie in June 1974 for a series of concerts at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, was seen as an important incentive for Sinatra to return from his self-imposed retirement of the early 1970s. The shows were a great success, and September 1975 saw them gross $1,000,000 in two weeks on Broadway, in a triumvirate with the Count Basie Orchestra. Later life and death In 1985, Fitzgerald was hospitalized briefly for respiratory problems, in 1986 for congestive heart failure,[36] and in 1990 for exhaustion. In 1993, she had to have both of her legs amputated below the knee due to the effects of diabetes. Her eyesight was affected as well. In 1996, tired of being in the hospital, she wished to spend her last days at home. Confined to a wheelchair, she spent her final days in her backyard of her Beverly Hills mansion on Whittier, with her son Ray and 12 year old granddaughter Alice. "I just want to smell the air, listen to the birds and hear Alice laugh," she reportedly said. On her last day, she was wheeled outside one last time, and sat there for about an hour. When she was taken back in, she looked up with a soft smile on her face and said, "I'm ready to go now." She died in her home on June 15, 1996 at the age of 79. A few hours after her death, the Playboy Jazz Festival was launched at the Hollywood Bowl. In tribute, the marquee read: "Ella We Will Miss You." Her funeral was private, and she was buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Personal life Fitzgerald married at least twice, and there is evidence that she may have married a third time. In 1941, she married Benny Kornegay, a convicted drug dealer and local dockworker. The marriage was annulled after two years. Her second marriage, in December 1947, was to the famous bass player Ray Brown, whom she had met while on tour with Dizzy Gillespie's band a year earlier. Together they adopted a child born to Fitzgerald's half-sister, Frances, whom they christened Ray Brown, Jr. With Fitzgerald and Brown often busy touring and recording, the child was largely raised by her aunt, Virginia. Fitzgerald and Brown divorced in 1953, bowing to the various career pressures both were experiencing at the time, though they would continue to perform together. In July 1957, Reuters reported that Fitzgerald had secretly married Thor Einar Larsen, a young Norwegian, in Oslo. She had even gone as far as furnishing an apartment in Oslo, but the affair was quickly forgotten when Larsen was sentenced to five months hard labor in Sweden for stealing money from a young woman to whom he had previously been engaged. Fitzgerald was also notoriously shy. Trumpet player Mario Bauzá, who played behind Fitzgerald in her early years with Chick Webb, remembered that "she didn't hang out much. When she got into the band, she was dedicated to her music....She was a lonely girl around New York, just kept herself to herself, for the gig." When, later in her career, the Society of Singers named an award after her, Fitzgerald explained, "I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do but I think I do better when I sing." Fitzgerald was a quiet but ardent supporter of many charities and non-profit organizations, including the American Heart Association and the City of Hope Medical Center. In 1993, she established the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation. Awards, citations and honors Fitzgerald won thirteen Grammy Awards, including one for Lifetime Achievement in 1967. Other major awards and honors she received during her career were the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award, National Medal of Art, first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award, named "Ella" in her honor, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement, UCLA Spring Sing. Across town at the University of Southern California, she received the USC "Magnum Opus" Award which hangs in the office of the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation. In 1990, she received an honorary doctorate of Music from Harvard University. Tributes and legacy The career history and archival material from Ella's long career are housed in the Archives Center at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, while her personal music arrangements are at the Library of Congress. Her extensive cookbook collection was donated to the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, and her extensive collection of published sheet music was donated to UCLA. In 1997, Newport News, Virginia created a music festival with Christopher Newport University to honor Ella Fitzgerald in her birth city. The Ella Fitzgerald Music Festival is designed to teach the region's youth of the musical legacy of Fitzgerald and jazz. Past performers at the week-long festival include: Diana Krall, Arturo Sandoval, Jean Carne, Phil Woods, Aretha Franklin, Freda Payne, Cassandra Wilson, Ethel Ennis, David Sanborn, Jane Monheit, Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ramsey Lewis, Patti Austin, and Ann Hampton Callaway. Callaway, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Patti Austin have all recorded albums in tribute to Fitzgerald. Callaway's album To Ella with Love (1996) features fourteen jazz standards made popular by Fitzgerald, and the album also features the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Bridgewater's album Dear Ella (1997) featured many musicians that were closely associated with Fitzgerald during her career, including the pianist Lou Levy, the trumpeter Benny Powell, and Fitzgerald's second husband, double bassist Ray Brown. Bridgewater's following album, Live at Yoshi's, was recorded live on April 25, 1998, what would have been Fitzgerald's 81st birthday. Austin's album, For Ella (2002) features 11 songs most immediately associated with Fitzgerald, and a twelfth song, "Hearing Ella Sing" is Austin's tribute to Fitzgerald. The album was nominated for a Grammy. In 2007, We All Love Ella, was released, a tribute album recorded for the 90th anniversary of Fitzgerald's birth. It featured artists such as Michael Bublé, Natalie Cole, Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, Diana Krall, k.d. lang, Queen Latifah, Ledisi, Dianne Reeves, Linda Ronstadt, and Lizz Wright, collating songs most readily associated with the "First Lady of Song". Folk singer Odetta's album To Ella (1998) is dedicated to Fitzgerald, but features no songs associated with her. Her accompanist Tommy Flanagan affectionately remembered Fitzgerald on his album Lady be Good ... For Ella (1994). Fitzgerald is also referred to on the 1987 song "Ella, elle l'a" by French singer France Gall, the 1976 Stevie Wonder hit "Sir Duke" from his album Songs in the Key of Life, and the song "I Love Being Here With You", written by Peggy Lee and Bill Schluger. Sinatra's 1986 recording of "Mack the Knife" from his album L.A. Is My Lady (1984) includes a homage to some of the song's previous performers, including 'Lady Ella' herself. She is also honored in the song "First Lady" by Canadian artist Nikki Yanofsky. In 2008, the Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center in Newport News named its brand new 276-seat theater the Ella Fitzgerald Theater. The theater is located several blocks away from her birthplace on Marshall Avenue. The Grand Opening performers (October 11 and 12, 2008) were Roberta Flack and Queen Esther Marrow. In 2012, Rod Stewart performed a "virtual duet" with Ella Fitzgerald on his Christmas album Merry Christmas, Baby, and his television special of the same name. In 2013, Google paid tribute to Ella by celebrating her 96th birthday with a Google Doodle on its US homepage. There is a bronze sculpture of Fitzgerald in Yonkers, the city in which she grew up, created by American artist Vinnie Bagwell. It is located southeast of the main entrance to the Amtrak/Metro-North Railroad station in front of the city's old trolley barn. A bust of Fitzgerald is on the campus of Chapman University in Orange, California. On January 9, 2007, the United States Postal Service announced that Fitzgerald would be honored with her own postage stamp. The stamp was released in April 2007 as part of the Postal Service's Black Heritage series. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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