Something for the weekend. The incomparable Ella Fitzgerald singing That Old Black Magic, which was written in 1942 by Johnny Mercer, with music by Harold Arlen, and which seems appropriate on this day before All Hallows Eve.
It was initially performed by Glenn Miller:
And this may require a mind-wipe, a Jerry Lewis variant:
Great stuff. My parents loved big band music. Records are back only called vinyls now.
Must do some searching in the basement for those albums.
Thanks Don. This is the music I grew up with and it never gets old—like me.
My favorite version is by Louis Prima.
Edie, Yes!
Ella had the most beautiful, perfect-pitched voice ever known.