FROM 50s TO NOWADAYS
ELLA FITZGERALD
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
After a tumultuous adolescence, Fitzgerald found stability in musical success with the Chick Webb Orchestra, performing across the country but most often associated with the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. Her rendition of the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" helped boost both her and Webb to national fame. After taking over the band when Webb died, Fitzgerald left it behind in 1942 to start her solo career. Her manager was Moe Gale, co-founder of the Savoy, until she turned the rest of her career over to Norman Granz, who founded Verve Records to produce new records by Fitzgerald. With Verve she recorded some of her more widely noted works, particularly her interpretations of the Great American Songbook.
While Fitzgerald appeared in films and as a guest on popular television shows in the second half of the twentieth century, her musical collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and The Ink Spots were some of her most notable acts outside her solo career. These partnerships produced some of her best-known songs such as "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Cheek to Cheek", "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall", and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)". In 1993, after a career of nearly sixty years, she gave her last public performance. Three years later, she died at age 79 after years of declining health. Her accolades included 14 Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts, the NAACP's inaugural President's Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Wikipedia
KARAOKE SONGS
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🎵 song with voice
🔡 song lyrics
A Foggy Day 🎵 🔡
All My Life 🎵 🔡
All Of Me 🎵 🔡
All Of You (lyrics) 🎵 🔡
(lyrics)
Always 🎵 🔡
Angel Eyes (lyrics) 🎵 🔡
Anything Goes 🎵 🔡
April In Paris (lyrics) 🎵 🔡
Azure 🎵 🔡
Bidin' My Time 🎵 🔡
Black Coffee 🎵 🔡
Bli—blip 🎵 🔡
Blue Moon 🎵 🔡
Blue Skies 🎵 🔡
Born To Be Blue 🎵 🔡
But Not For Me 🎵 🔡
By Strauss 🎵 🔡
Caravan 🎵 🔡
Change Partners 🎵 🔡
Cheek To Cheek 🎵 🔡
Close Your Eyes 🎵 🔡
Cotton Tail 🎵 🔡
Cow Cow Boogie 🎵 🔡
Crab Man 🎵 🔡
Cry Me A River 🎵 🔡
Day In — Day Out 🎵 🔡
Early Autumn (lyrics) 🎵 🔡
Easy To Love 🎵 🔡
Embraceable You 🎵 🔡
Goodbye 🎵 🔡
Get Happy 🎵 🔡
Get Out Of Town 🎵 🔡
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Goody Goody 🎵 🔡
Hello Dolly 🎵 🔡
I Love Paris 🎵 🔡
I've Got Rhythm 🎵 🔡
(to Be Caught In The Rain) (lyrics)
It's De—lovely 🎵 🔡
Things (lyrics)
Love For Sale 🎵 🔡
Lover 🎵 🔡
Mack The Knife 🎵 🔡
Making Whoopee 🎵 🔡
Manhattan 🎵 🔡
Misty 🎵 🔡
Nature Boy 🎵 🔡
Night And Day 🎵 🔡
Off Key 🎵 🔡
Over The Rainbow 🎵 🔡
Round Midnight 🎵 🔡
Route 66 🎵 🔡
September Song 🎵 🔡
So In Love 🎵 🔡
Rainbow (lyrics)
Summertime 🎵 🔡
S Wonderful 🎵 🔡
Tenderly 🎵 🔡
The Man I Love 🎵 🔡
Too Darn Hot 🎵 🔡
Undecided (lyrics) 🎵 🔡