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Phillip	Let's call the whole thing off (1)	BS: Let's call the whole thing off	20 Nov 02
That reminds me! Last night I listened to both Fred Astaire's early version of Let's Call The Whole Thing Off, and Ella Fitzgerald's from the Songbooks recordings. Fred's is fairly restrained, though you say "oyster" and I say "erster" was pushing it a bit - I suspect it's a close as he could get to a kind of Jimmy Cagney pronunciation. But Ella got very suspect with some of her contrasts. My favourite version was one which went You lettuce and I say lettoochay You say cabbage and I say cabadgeay Lettuce, lettoochay Cabbage, cabadgeay etc Anyway, time for tea. Phillip

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