Happy heavenly 105th to legendary jazz chanteuse Ella Fitzgerald. This is her recording of "Mack The Knife" from the 1960 album Ella In Berlin. Halfway through the song, she forgets the lyrics, so she started making them up, doing a pretty much dead-on impersonation of dear friend Louis Armstrong and scat-singing her way through the performance. The audience loved it, and the album eventually won a Grammy.
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She was AMAZING
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Tremendous voice, and she had a way of making you feel like she was singing to you.
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I agree
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Unsurpassed!
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A true classic. They don’t make ’em like Ella anymore.
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No, they don’t, unfortunately.
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Such fun! That lady could sing the phone book and I’d pay to listen. Although I was privileged to have worked her several time and got paid to listen.
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That was Ella. Her recordings of the Great American Songbook are second to none.
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I loved listening to this. She is so great
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I liked her work with Louis Armstrong. They were totally different as singers, but sounded so good together…
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LOL what a great improvisation. I hadn’t heard this.
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It won a Grammy.
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