ella fitzgerald

Subject: ella fitzgerald
From:
Date: 03 Apr 99 - 05:15 PM

Does anyone know what Ella Firzgerald song this line came from: "It ain't what you, it's the way that you do it."? If so, please e-mail me at [e-mail] with the song name. If you can find the lyrics to the song or a link where I can't find the lyrics, I would appreciate that too.

Subject: RE: ella fitzgerald
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Apr 99 - 06:49 PM

Hmmm. tough one. I was thinking of this one, but it doesn't have the line you cite.

It's Not Where You Start
(from the musical "SEESAW")
Music by Cy Coleman
Lyrics by Dorothy fields
© 1972, Notable Music Co., Inc.

It's not where you start, it's where you finish
It's not how you go, it's how you land.
A hundred to one shot, they call him a klutz,
Can outrun the favorite, all he needs is the guts.

Your final return will not diminish
And you can be cream of the crop;
It's not where you start, it's where you finish
And you're gonna finish on top.

I think there may be more verses to the song, and maybe the verse you cite is in there. Then again, maybe not.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: ella fitzgerald
From:
Date: 03 Apr 99 - 07:28 PM

Do you mean "It ain't whatcha do, its the way howja do it"? I remember that refrain...sounds more like Cab Callaway than Ella. Try a jazz site, if such exists. Good luck--John

Subject: RE: ella fitzgerald
From:
Date: 03 Apr 99 - 07:59 PM

As a matter of fact Ella Fitzgerald did do a version of "It ain't what you do."

Murray

Subject: RE: ella fitzgerald
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 03 Apr 99 - 08:56 PM

I swear on every Mudcatter's life that I have been asked at least five times to sing that "Gordon Lightfoot song, The Wreck of the Ella Fitzgerald!!"

Subject: RE: ella fitzgerald
From:
Date: 03 Apr 99 - 08:59 PM

That's why they took away her driver's license, don't ya know..

Subject: RE: ella fitzgerald
From: Frank Maher
Date: 04 Apr 99 - 10:16 AM

Hi, I just sent the Audio Lyrics to You by Ella Fitzgerald to Your e-mail address

Subject: RE: ella fitzgerald
From: Ronn
Date: 04 Apr 99 - 11:03 PM

Ella recorded the song in the 30's when she was still with Chick Webb's Orchestra. Someone, Henry The Hipster Gibson possibly, recorded a follow-up called "It Aint What You Eat, It's The Way That You Chew It".