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Track: You'll Have To Swing It (Mr. Paganini)
Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Album: The Early Years - Part 1 (1935-1938)

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Name: Ella Fitzgerald
Spotify Genres: vocal jazz, jazz, swing music, jazz blues, big band, christmas
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Born: 25 April 1917 in Newport News, Virginia, USA. Died: 15 June 1996 in Beverly Hills, California, USA (aged 79). Dubbed 'The First Lady Of Song', Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the US for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she sold over 40 million albums and won 13 Grammy Awards: - Best Jazz Performance, Individual for [Link] - Best Vocal Performance, Female for [Link] - Best Jazz Performance - Soloist for [Link] - Best Vocal Performance, Female for But Not For Me from [Link] - Best Vocal Performance Album, Female for [Link] - Best Vocal Performance Single Record Or Track, Female for Mack The Knife from [Link] - Best Solo Vocal Performance, Female for [Link] - Best Jazz Vocal Performance for [Link] - Best Jazz Vocal Performance for [Link] - Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female for [Link] - Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female for [Link] - Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female for [Link] - Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female for [Link] Mother of jazz pianist/singer [a=Ray Brown Jr.], ex-wife of jazz double-bassist [a=Ray Brown].

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Release: Ella Fitzgerald - (You'll Have To Swing It) Mr. Paganini
Year: 1961
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Vocal

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The concert was over in Carnagie Hall
The maestro took bow after bow
He said, â??My dear friends I have given my all.
I'm sorry, it's all over now.â??
When from the balcony way up high
There suddenly came a mournful cry

Oh, Mr. Paganini
Please play my rhapsody
And if you cannot play it won't you sing it?
And if you can't sing you simply have to
Scat

Listen Paganini,
We breathlessly await your masterful dtente
Go on and sling it
And if you can't sling it you simply have to
Scat

We heard your repertoire
And at the final bar
We greeted you with wild applause
But what a great ovation
Your interpretation of:
â??I never cared much for moonlight skies
I never blinked back at fireflies'
Would do

So, Paganini don't you be a meanie
What have you up your sleeve?
Come on and spring it
And if you can't spring it, you simply have to
Scat

Listen Paganini, please play my rhapsody
And if you cannot play it, wont you sing it?
If the boys is bopping
Aint no need in stopping
Scat

Listen Paganini,
We breathlessly await your masterful dtente
Come on and spring it
If the boys is bopping
Aint no need in stopping
Scat

I heard your repertoire and
At the final bar
We greeted you, we greeted you
With wild applause
But what a great ovation
Your interpretation of
Scat

Listen Paganini
Now, don't you be a meanie
What have you up your sleeve?
Come on and spring it
And if you can't spring it, you simply have to
Swing it