Thanks for letting me know, didn’t spot it
Posts by Jo Welch
Token 2: Squeeze Cool For Cats
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ2c...
Token 1: Ella Fitzgerald’s gorgeous version of Skylark
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbXv...
My parents gave me their Greatest Hits tape with my first radio cassette player for my 13th birthday. I loved playing it and singing along, so I still recall most of their hits.
Token 2: The Mamas and The Papas, Spanish Harlem
“There is a rose in Spanish Harlem,
A red rose up in Spanish Harlem,
It is a special one,
It’s never seen the sun
It only comes out when the moon is on the run
And all the stars are gleaming.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV0J...
Token 1: It Might As Well Be Spring by Ella Fitzgerald
“I haven’t seen a crocus or a rosebud …”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbZG...
Indeed, probably the first time ever
Indeed, listening to her, I’m chipper all the day
Token 2: Don’t Leave Me This Way by The Communards (with Sarah Jane Morris)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RHB...
Token 1: I Got Rhythm, Ella Fitzgerald from the George and Ira Gershwin songbook
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYRt...
I didn’t mean to be unfair to the host, Michael, it was an unintentional slip, and, as I say, I had very little spare time that day, but had realised thatI’d have a brief window shortly after 11 to join in the jukebox.
Used to live in Montpelier. Nice to see it again, looking so fine
Thanks. It reminds me more of Sarah Vaughan’s version of Lullaby of Birdland
Token 2: The first time I noticed Ella Fitzgerald’s voice was singing Autumn In New York with Louis Armstrong at my Uncle Jack’s.
After that, I’d always ask him to play her singing - and have bought and loved her music ever since
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Token 1: My Mum had Glen Campbell’s Greatest Hits, so I often heard Rhinestone Cowboy:
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I had very little time, Michael, so I just dived in (as I am wont to do sometimes) and the kind host allowed me to keep my songs as they were
Thanks so much
Thank you. Loathe to replace it though, so I’ll leave it as is, thank you
A professional comedian is often called a comic, and described as so comical, so I thought you were referring to that. I suspect some others might too.
May I respectfully suggest accepting both meanings, to make a more varied jukebox?
Token 2: The original Let’s Do It by Cole Porter, by Ella Fitzgerald
Full of wit, for example:
Electric eels, I might add, do it,
Though it shocks them I know …
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcvH...
Token 1: The Ballad of Barry and Freda, by the brilliant Victoria Wood.
Listen and fail to laugh? Impossible, I would venture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSBu...
Yes, and CBS recorded it, but it was quickly squashed due to the racism of the time. They didn’t want Ella to be another target.
Token 2 What The World Needs Now, Dionne Warwick
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHA...
Token 1: Ella Fitzgerald, It’s Up To Me and You
One of the few songs Ella wrote, provoked by the assassination of Martin Luther King, in which she appeals for peace.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VpI...
Indeed, it’s one of Cole Porter’s most de-lightfully playful lyrics
Token 2: one of my favourite Scott Hamilton’s, That’s All
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV95...
Token 1: It’s De-Lovely from Ella Fitzgerald’s Cole Porter songbook
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g4Y...
Yes, I think he sings it so well, but the talking was a surprise to me and made it seem so much more dated than the Ella and Louis, to me at least!
Indeed! What a great subject! Thanks for hosting.
Token 2: Elvis with Are (R) You Lonesome Tonight?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XVd...