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...Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book (Verve, 2 LPs). Thirty-two sophisticated songs, sweet, hot and tough, sung with the utmost simplicity by the queen of popular singers. The Fitzgerald method, in her own words, is to "just sing," and at least half of her poignance comes from the fact that she sings right in the heart of the note (instrumentalists like to say they tune up to her notes). Strangely enough, she can breathe right in the middle of a phrase and get away with it-a nice way of suggesting that she is not so sophisticated...
...Night at the Apollo (Vanguard). Harlem's famed vaudeville theater in a rowdy session with Count Basic's band, a couple of tap dancers, some comedy and a glimpse of the famed amateur show that gave Ella Fitzgerald her start. The recorded show uncovers its own discovery, a bouncy blues singer named Doreen Vaughan. The audience goes wild...
Laird and his wife Clara have three children: Mary Ella, 15, Elizabeth
...drawn sabers. And there are some swell lines for those who relish the era's nasal note of prosperous disillusion. "There won't ever be no patter of little feet in my house," drones one pickled tomato, "unless I want to rent some mice." Best of all, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee sing real well, and pretty often...
...Occasional Man (Billy May's orchestra and Ella Mae Morse; Capitol). A pleasant hot-weather oddity from the film, The Girl Rush. Singer Morse muses of her favorite island in the Pacific where there is "sun to tan me, palms to fan me," etc., plus, obviously, an occasional...