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19 Oct 17 - 09:44 PM (#3883395) Subject: BS: Ella Ella Ella.. So beautiful From: olddude https://youtu.be/1fzZ4l2H5-w |
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19 Oct 17 - 10:18 PM (#3883398) Subject: RE: BS: Ella Ella Ella.. So beautiful From: gillymor Truly sublime, Dan. Here's the blicky for the above link: Click here I grew up on all the various "songbooks" Ella did for Verve back in the fifties. But Not for Me w/ lovely piano accompaniment by Ellis Larkins. |
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19 Oct 17 - 10:55 PM (#3883402) Subject: RE: BS: Ella Ella Ella.. So beautiful From: Donuel Bewitched bothered bewildered Old Dude Ive been playing this for years on the cello. My teacher always said if you can sound like a voice you are close to impossible perfection. Its good to be close |
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20 Oct 17 - 05:50 AM (#3883445) Subject: RE: BS: Ella Ella Ella.. So beautiful From: Will Fly She was good, though I personally preferred Dinah Washington. :-) |
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20 Oct 17 - 05:52 AM (#3883447) Subject: RE: BS: Ella Ella Ella.. So beautiful From: akenaton This is disgraceful, cluttering this section up with music....mods!! |
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20 Oct 17 - 07:24 AM (#3883475) Subject: RE: BS: Ella Ella Ella.. So beautiful From: Donuel OK keb, This song is all about the dastardly disorienting debilitating effects of evil alcohol and illuminates the sentiments of Donald Trump |
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20 Oct 17 - 09:22 AM (#3883507) Subject: RE: BS: Ella Ella Ella.. So beautiful From: olddude She was a national Treasure for sure. I loved her music |
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20 Oct 17 - 09:33 AM (#3883514) Subject: RE: BS: Ella Ella Ella.. So beautiful From: gillymor The First Lady of Song, amen. |
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20 Oct 17 - 07:09 PM (#3883606) Subject: RE: BS: Ella Ella Ella.. So beautiful From: olddude For sure my brother |
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20 Oct 17 - 07:57 PM (#3883616) Subject: RE: BS: Ella Ella Ella.. So beautiful From: olddude Gilly remember cry me a river.. Amazing voice https://youtu.be/2Gn9A-kdsRo |
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20 Oct 17 - 09:46 PM (#3883627) Subject: RE: BS: Ella Ella Ella.. So beautiful From: frogprince Uh, Dan...Why in B.S., Bro?? You got me on a roll on YouTube; listened to BB&B by Ella, Gaga, Linda R, and Carly. On the 1-10 scale, I would say three 10s and a 12 for Ella. |
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21 Oct 17 - 08:47 AM (#3883690) Subject: RE: BS: Ella Ella Ella.. So beautiful From: gillymor This thread's got me on an Ella-listening jag as well. Her voice was one helluva an instrument with so many great performances of great songs by all those great composers. I especially love what she did with Cole Porter, I've Got You Under My Skin In the Still of the Night |
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21 Oct 17 - 08:51 AM (#3883692) Subject: RE: BS: Ella Ella Ella.. So beautiful From: gillymor and a link to her excellent version of Cry Me a River that Dan mentioned above. |
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21 Oct 17 - 06:18 PM (#3883776) Subject: RE: BS: Ella Ella Ella.. So beautiful From: keberoxu Even classical singers bowed down to her. I remember one operatic soprano who marveled: "Ella Fitzgerald and her sense of perfect pitch." |