Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella (the First Lady of Song), was one of the most influential jazz singers of the 20th Century, the winner of thirteen Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Art presented by President Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by the elder President Bush. Gifted with a three-octave vocal range, she was noted for her purity of tone, near faultless phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. Although considered by many to be simply the best, some critics have suggested that, whilst not exactly "phoning in the lyrics", she occasionally failed to put the required emotional investment into her interpretations. She remains, however, one of the most successful, influential and enduringly popular singers of the last century.
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By Strauss Lyrics
Ella Fitzgerald
Away with the music of broadway
Be off with your irving berlin
Oh I give no quarter to kern or cole porter
And gershwin keeps pounding on tin
How can I be civil when hearing this drivel
Its only for nightclubbin souses
Oh give me the free n easy waltz that is vienneasy and
Go tell the band if they want a hand
The waltz must be strausss
Ya, ya ya, give me oom-pa-pah
When I want a melody
Lilting through the house
Then I want a melody
By strauss
It laughs, it sings, the world is in rhyme
Swinging to three-quarter time
Let the danube flow along
And the fledermauss
Keep the wine and give me song
By strauss
By jove, by jing, by strauss is the thing
So I say to ha-cha-cha, heraus!
Just give me your oom-pa-pah, by strauss!
(bridge)
Let the danube flow along
And the fledermauss
Keep the wine and give me song
By strauss
By jove, by jing, by strauss is the thing
So I say to ha-cha-cha, heraus!
Just give me your oom-pa-pah,
By strauss!