Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Yahoo LAUNCHCAST song of the day


Artist:Ella Fitzgerald

Song:Hard Hearted Hannah

Album:Ella:The Legendary Decca Recordings





This 4CD box set thoroughly covers Ella Fitzgerald's early recording. Because her first hit A-Tisket A-Tasket was a cute novelty song, Chick Webb had her do more of those kind of songs. When Webb died in 1939, Ella eventually got more into jazz in the 40s and this great version of Hard Hearted Hannah reflects that change. She was able to get the respect of all the great musicians and worked with all of them. Most of the Ella Fitzgerald video footage available is from TV shows from the 60s. There's even footage of her with Lester Young & Charlie Parker from 1950. I'll save that for another time. I did find one clip from the 40s. It's Ella Fitzgerald singing A-Tisket A-Tasket from the 1942 Abbott & Costello film Ride 'Em Cowboy. I don't think most folks have ever seen this younger version of Ella Fitzgerald.

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