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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0731453790926 Label: Polygram Records Manufacturer: Polygram Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Polygram Records Release Date: August 26, 1997 Sales Rank: 4969 Studio: Polygram Records
Amazon.com essential recording: Ella Fitzgerald's voice was satin to Louis Armstrong's sandpaper, but when you put them together on a single song, their chemistry was unimpeachable. This disc selects highlights from the three albums they made together at Verve (including their Porgy and Bess), and adds a spiffy live track from the Hollywood Bowl. Though they don't harmonize much (Armstrong's voice wasn't built for harmony), Ella's dignified swing and flashes of teasing wit play off Satchmo's gritty, good-humored roar symbiotically. The material is mostly lightweight Tin Pan Alley stuff (lots of Gershwin, plus the likes of "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"), and they fly it like a kite. --Douglas Wolk
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Buy It...NOW !
This is the greatest duet record of all time. This will stay in your collection Forever. Beautiful, Just simply beautiful.
Rating: - Love It
'Louis and Ella just take me on a trip through time and place me in a smokey jin joint on a Friday night..
Rating: - Perfection
Masterpiece!it's a privledge to listen to this fine body of work. Like sitting in a jazz club with a private concert. I absolutely love this.
Rating: - Ella and Louis Cast a Seer's Spell On You!
Hi Folks. I am back planning an at home romantic evening with Sondra the Seerest. What? You didn't know Metamorpho was a romantic at heart? Of course I am! Ask my agent. Anyway, she's a nice gal but needs alot of polishing and etiquette. I have visions of me being Henry Higgins to her Eliza. But that is a treacherous road my people. I risk her leaving me alone after all is said and done. Another heart broken. Mine! But don't be too concerned. I got an A+ on the course on mesmerization and know all the tricks.
One of them is playing this album when she arrives. She will swoon and look at me ... Read More
Rating: - The musical odd couple!
What a musical odd couple! Ella Fitzgerald--and her smooth, elegant voice--and Louis Armstrong and his anything but elegant voice! But this CD works pretty well indeed. Two of the greatest performers of the 20th century play with a set of great songs--and pull it off well.
Let's take a look at some of the cuts on this CD.
"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off": A nice Gershwin tune! Potato versus potawto. What a strange combination of voices. But the two talented artists work well together. Her lustrous voice and his "used up" voice.
