And tomorrow, go out and buy some Ella. I highly recommend the boxed set of her recordings with Decca Records, everything she did with Louis Armstrong, the Duke Ellington Songbook, and any live recordings you can get your hands on. Ella & Duke at Cote d'Azur is so choice. You can get the collection of the complete recordings of those shows for $80 on iTunes (I know that's a lot of money for most of us these days; trust me if I had it laying around I'd buy that bear right now. The Decca set is a good beginning though. For those of you who are only podcasting these days there is an Ella podcast. And now, the First Lady of Song:
If you don't feel better there is no hope for you.
Sorry lililam, I know you have trouble with the videos.
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Oh, Shtuey! I love you! I was just going to say "I can't pull up those utubes up here on the mountain", but you said it for me. I agree with your assertion re: Ella- she is wonderful. My late husband and I took a trip to be with friends one New Years, just to witness them falling flat on their faces, drunk. We took the cue to go off on oor own, and had a lovely brunch by the seaside, then did some shopping and came up with an Ella and Louis CD, with her wearing a beautiful flowery dress nect to Louis and his horn. What a wonderfully mellifluent sound. When I was a music major back in the day, I would hole myself up in the library and listen to Ella and Billie and other divas on tape. A good choice. Ella was a sophisticated and mature musician.
woops- sorry for the typos
this and my first glass of wine in a month is working, working, working.
Thanks Shtuey!
oh frak', gonna have to wait, listening to the Red lemur sharpen knives on his stone right now - kinda disconcerting.
YES TO ELLA !! and also
EVA CASSIDY
and if you don't know who she is ...give yourself the gift of hearing her on the SATURDAY AM antidote GODDESS RADIO
click here to listen
http://audio.cygnusradio.com:8000/cyg1_hi.m3u ( or copy paste that link into your player where it says play url or find CYGNUS RADIO ON ITUNES under eclectic )
I would be very flattered and honored to have you listen in :)
i grew up on ella.
mom was a singer, she cut a record but never pursued a recording contract. she opted for a traditional life. pre-cd's, cassettes, etc., we had a beautiful wood stereo unit which served as furniture as well as a vehicle for music. my mother absolutely worshiped ella. i can still hear, " a tisket, a tasket, i lost my yellow basket"...was that the right color?
they don't make singers like this anymore and if they do, sadly, the pop and hip/hop/rap world have usurped true talent.
well, there are some wildly talented voices, but perhaps it is just the romantic aura we attribute to those days of yesteryear that make everything so much more appealing.
thanks, s.
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