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...Ella Fitzgerald tenses fearfully when she hears this. The most popular jazz singer in the world for 27 years and only now reaching the peak of her career, she remains a celebrity fan nonpareil. So out on the stage she goes and sings her heart out to impress Drake Brown. It is unimportant that Drake Brown does not exist. In jazz the end justifies the means...
Ringo Way. Born in Newport News, Va., orphaned and raised by an aunt in Yonkers, Ella Fitzgerald in her early days was a skinny girl, but over the years her stature grew in both senses. She is supersensitive about her weight, and understandably cried through the night once when-after she had performed with another heavy singer-a critic wrote: "Last night the stage contained 600 Ibs. of pure talent." The talent moves as well as sings. One of Ella Fitzgerald's secrets is that she really wishes she were a dancer. When she feels good onstage, she becomes...
...pleasantly informal, but she does have her formal side. "It used to bother me when people I didn't know came up and called me Ella," she says. "It seemed to me they should say 'Miss Fitzgerald,' but somehow they never do." Perhaps this is because there are several million Fitzgeralds but only one Ella...
...shar ing with outsiders their hard-earned prestige or profits. They tower in fields as varied as mining, retailing, proprietary drugs and investment banking, and turn out such well-known products as S. &H. Green Stamps, Caloric ranges, Johnson's Wax, Mennen toiletries, Ex-Lax and Old Fitzgerald-the last of which has a president with the wonderful name of "Pappy" Van Winkle...
...Swingle Singers' musical idiom is onomatopoeia, otherwise known in the trade as scat. Scat is like baby talk with a beat and is as old as singing in the shower. Rendered by a jazz stylist like Ella Fitzgerald, who reels off such breathless improvisations in Flying Home as "oodla-oodlee-ooblee-day-lay do-dee-a-din-doi-oodlay-a-din-doi-danzoit-boy-hem," scat can be a highly refined...