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Etta and Ella
#25re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/16/06 at 1:42am
Lucky! And free, too!
Etta only sang two songs toward the end of the concert, and "At Last" was so powerful I forgot what the other song was! I also remember that she was actually sitting down the entire time (I'm sure it was for health reasons) and I was thinking...my god...if she was standing up the belting would have knocked the audience down!
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#26re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/16/06 at 1:45amWhat I love is that her sons are so involved with her career and music now. It's obvious how much they love, honor and respect her - as well they should!
BroomstickBoy
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#27re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/16/06 at 2:34am
Etta is without a doubt one of my all time favorite singers, if not my one favorite. I rarely play favorites. I recently bought the "Let's Roll" album and I'm soon getting my hands on the "Blues to the Bone", and I just ADORE her.
I got a heart full of trouble, a house full of sin
things are bad as they ever been
if trouble were money
I'd have more money than any man should
I'm open for business in your neighborhood
the blues is my business, and business is good
The perfect combination of blues and rock&roll.
I don't WANT to live in what they call "a certain way." In the first place I'd be no good at it and besides that I don't want to be identified with any one class of people. I want to live every whichway, among all kinds---and know them---and understand them---and love them---THAT's what I want! - Philip Barry (Holiday)
#28re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/16/06 at 7:09amHas anyone else read....."Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story"....it's one of those books you just can't put down. What a life this woman has had...a MUST read for all of her fans and for all of those who aren't familiar with this amazing singer.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#29re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:10amAiming for the day that I can play Etta's "At Last..."
#30re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:17amWhat will you play it on Cookie?
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:40am
Boobs--that's a really great bio.
But this thread is supposed to be about Etta AND Ella! We need a little more Ella love here!
Twelve songs from eight musicals:
* “ Warm All Over ” and "Somebody Somewhere" from Frank Loesser's Most Happy Fella (1956)
* “ If I Were a Bell ” and “ Guys and Dolls ” from Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls (1950)
* “ Almost Like Being in Love ” from Lerner and Lowe's Brigadoon (1947)
* “ I Could Have Danced All Night ” and "Show Me" from Lerner and Lowe's My Fair Lady (1956)
* "No Other Love" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Me and Juliet (1953)
* "Dites-Moi" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific (1949)
* “ Hernando's Hideaway ” and "Steam Heat" from Adler and Ross's Pajama Game (1954)
* “ Whatever Lola Wants ” from Adler and Ross's Damm Yankees (1955)
Awarded 4 stars by Down Beat jazz magazine in 1963, the review commented that it was "A perfect complement to Fitzgerald's classic series of 'Song Book' albums."
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#34re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/16/06 at 1:00pmListening to Ella's rendition of Anything Goes on Pandora right now - it just don't get any better than that!
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#35re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/16/06 at 1:04pm
Who doesn't love Ella and Etta? There is simply nothing bad you can say about either. They just make you feel...
Thanks for posting that PJ. I do not have that Ella recording I will have to look for it if only to hear her sing Dites-Moi. Of all the songs to choose from South Pacific!
PEACE.
#36re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/16/06 at 1:12pm
Here you go boys ....
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000059GQL/sr=8-1/qid=1140113511/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-4185410-3027102?%5Fencoding=UTF8
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/16/06 at 1:16pmWell, put it this way: French is not her forte. But it swings!
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#38re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/16/06 at 1:27pmAnd it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing...
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#39re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/16/06 at 1:33pmAmazon, Boobs? Hell, I went to i-tunes and am already listening to it! Ole! Just puts you in a good mood!
PEACE.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#40re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/16/06 at 1:51pmExcept now it is making me sad...Ella's gone and I will never see her live! I am loving this recording. Thanks again, PJ!
PEACE.
BroomstickBoy
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#41re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/21/06 at 10:08pm
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EBGEZU/qid=1140577072/sr=1-14/ref=sr_1_14/104-4319211-6014307?s=music&v=glance&n=5174
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*BUMP*
For all the Etta lovers, she's got a new album coming out next month! How bout that picture? She seems to have lost some weight. I thought it was Daphne Rubin-Vega in that picture.
I don't WANT to live in what they call "a certain way." In the first place I'd be no good at it and besides that I don't want to be identified with any one class of people. I want to live every whichway, among all kinds---and know them---and understand them---and love them---THAT's what I want! - Philip Barry (Holiday)
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
NCGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/04
#43re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/21/06 at 10:38pm
How bout that picture? She seems to have lost some weight.
Etta was on Austin City Limits earlier this season, and I was shocked at how tiny she looked.
What a song list!
Can't wait for Etta's takes on Purple Rain and Holding Back the Years!
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#44re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 2/21/06 at 11:15pm
There isn't a more perfect intro than Ella's seguining into the swinging sequence of Night and Day...
The beat beat beat of the tom tom....
NCGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/04
#45re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 3/12/06 at 4:32amIt doesn’t come out until Tuesday, but Amazon has added samples of Etta’s new album. I missed it when I first looked at the track listing a few weeks ago, but she’s doing “Calling You” from Bagdad Café...such a great song.
#47re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 6/18/06 at 2:51pm
Ella is one of my all-time favorite singers. I have a HUGE CD collection of Fitzgerald's, including every single Verve "Songbook" remaster out there. (Yes, that wasn't cheap... but it's my Ella!)
I was also lucky enough to see her "live" in Kansas City in the early '80s. It was supposed to be a double-bill of Count Basie and his Orchestra for the first half, and Ella and her trio for the second.
But they made an announcement before starting that Count Basie was too ill to perform that night. (This was shortly before he passed away.) The announcer went on to say that "Miss Fitzgerald has agreed to do an extra set tonight." ...And members of the Count Basie Orchestra would be sitting in on her sets.
She ended up singing for 2 1/2 hours solid with one 15 minute break in between! And she was no spring chicken at that point. But she was ELLA. She ran out of planned and rehearsed material halfway through her second set... so she started laughing and then began asking us (the audience) what we wanted to hear! I couldn't believe that.
We were shouting out song titles, and she'd turn to her musicians and they'd "discuss" for a few seconds. Then she'd ALWAYS turn back and say, "All right, let's do that one." It was the most amazing thing... like having our own LIVE Ella jukebox. Such a consummate professional, and I have never seen anything like her in concert before or since.
I miss her on this planet every day.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#48re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 6/18/06 at 3:10pm
Why are Etta and Ella always so closely associated? They are very different artists... I'll never understand it.
Ella stands alone!
Wrong, sir. Wrong! Under section 37B of the contract signed by him, it states quite clearly that all offers shall become null and void if - and you can read it for yourself in this photostatic copy - "I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein and herein contained," et cetera, et cetera..."Fax mentis incendium gloria cultum," et cetera, et cetera..."Memo bis punitor delicatum"! It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You stole fizzy lifting drinks. You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing! You lose! Good day sir!
#49re: Etta and Ella
Posted: 6/18/06 at 4:03pmThey are closely associated because they both are goddesses of the vocal talent. LOVE them both!
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
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