Ella Fitzgerald: A House Is Not A Home (1969) Posted by Dawn M. Nevills at Wednesday, August 23, 2017. Zobacz słowa utworu A House Is Not a Home wraz z teledyskiem i tłumaczeniem. Start Station. Fitzgerald and Pass appeared together on the albums, Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington recorded two live albums and two studio albums. a collection of songs by the queen of jazz accompanied by basie, ellington, armstrong, and host of others. [A 2] Als der Moment des Auftritts gekommen war, zitterten ihr jedoch vor Aufregung so die Beine, da vorher bereits die Gruppe Edwards Sisters unter Applaus vorgetanzt hatte. After taking over the band when Webb died, Fitzgerald left it behind in 1942 to start her solo career. She was awarded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Equal Justice Award and the American Black Achievement Award. Kolleginnen wie Sarah Vaughan oder Dinah Washington folgtem ihrem Beispiel und nahmen ebenfalls Songbooks auf. Juni 1996 in Beverly Hills, Kalifornien) war eine US-amerikanische Jazz-Sängerin. The album was nominated for a Grammy. [3] Her parents were unmarried but lived together in the East End section of Newport News[4] for at least two and a half years after she was born. Sie liegt auf dem Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood bei Los Angeles begraben. Ella in Berlin is still one of her best-selling albums; it includes a Grammy-winning performance of "Mack the Knife" in which she forgets the lyrics but improvises magnificently to compensate. Höchstplatzierung, Gesamtwochen, Auszeichnung, In älteren Enzyklopädien wird 1918 angegeben. [19] She won the chance to perform at the Apollo for a week but, seemingly because of her disheveled appearance, the theater never gave her that part of her prize. Sinatra's 1986 recording of "Mack the Knife" from his album L.A. Is My Lady (1984) includes a homage to some of the song's previous performers, including 'Lady Ella' herself. For Capitol she recorded Brighten the Corner, an album of hymns, Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas, an album of traditional Christmas carols, Misty Blue, a country and western-influenced album, and 30 by Ella, a series of six medleys that fulfilled her obligations for the label. Fitzgerald made her first tour of Australia in July 1954 for the Australian-based American promoter Lee Gordon. Offstage, Miss Fitzgerald lived a quiet, self-protective life in a 13-room house in Beverly Hills. [7] The church provided Fitzgerald with her earliest experiences in music. She later described the period as strategically crucial, saying, "I had gotten to the point where I was only singing be-bop. Although the four members of Fitzgerald's entourage – Fitzgerald, her pianist John Lewis, her assistant (and cousin) Georgiana Henry, and manager Norman Granz – all had first-class tickets on their scheduled Pan-American Airlines flight from Honolulu to Australia, they were ordered to leave the aircraft after they had already boarded and were refused permission to re-board the aircraft to retrieve their luggage and clothing. Geburtstag die Jubiläumsausstellung First Lady of Song: Ella Fitzgerald at 100 im National Museum of American History in Washington. Der Test überzeugte sowohl das Publikum als auch die Bandmitglieder.[7]. Fitzgerald features on one track on Basie's 1957 album, Fitzgerald and Joe Pass recorded four albums together toward the end of Fitzgerald's career. [87][88], On April 25, 2017, the centenary of her birth, UK's BBC Radio 2 broadcast three programmes as part of an "Ella at 100" celebration: Ella Fitzgerald Night introduced by Jamie Cullum, Remembering Ella introduced by Leo Green and Ella Fitzgerald – the First Lady of Song introduced by Petula Clark. März 2021 um 14:41 Uhr bearbeitet. Aus dieser Ehe stammt die 1923 geborene Halbschwester Frances. 1957 kursierten Berichte in der skandinavischen Presse, sie habe den jungen Norweger Thor Einar Larsen heimlich geheiratet. "She frequently used shorter, stabbing phrases, and her voice was harder, with a wider vibrato", one biographer wrote. Copy link. Die beiden Frauen blieben Zeit ihrer Leben miteinander befreundet.[10]. Ihr Markenzeichen war eine Gesangsart, die sie mitentwickelte und der sie zu Weltruhm verhalf: der Scatgesang. In Harlem wurde sie von der Polizei aufgegriffen und zunächst im Colored Asylum Orphanage in Riverdale untergebracht. In 2008, the Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center in Newport News named its new 276-seat theater the Ella Fitzgerald Theater. [2][3], Anfang 1935 traf Ella Fitzgerald erstmals den Bandleader und Schlagzeuger Chick Webb, der gerade auf der Suche nach einer Sängerin war, die neben dem Sänger Charles Linton auftreten sollte. The composers and lyricists spotlighted on each set, taken together, represent the greatest part of the cultural canon known as the Great American Songbook. Share. Zuletzt bearbeitet am 27. Oft wurde sie die First Lady of Song genannt. Pause. Her material at this time represented a departure from her typical jazz repertoire. She left Decca, and Granz, now her manager, created Verve Records around her. Ihr Repertoire reichte von Swing über Bebop, Blues, Bossa Nova, Samba, Gospel und Hip-Hop bis zu verjazzten Weihnachtsliedern. She is also honored in the song "First Lady" by Canadian artist Nikki Yanofsky. This was the first of Gordon's famous "Big Show" promotions and the 'package' tour also included Buddy Rich, Artie Shaw and comedian Jerry Colonna. If the conditions were not met shows were cancelled. "Celebrating 100 Years of Song. [3][5][6] In ihr wurde Fitzgerald offenbar geschlagen und missbraucht, Fitzgerald sprach später nie über diese Zeit. Info. 'Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things' is a documentary film directed by Leslie Woodhead that documents the life of the 'Queen of Jazz' from her 1934 debut at one of the earliest Amateur Nights at the Apollo Theater in Harlem all through her five decades as … A House Is Not A Home. A bust of Fitzgerald is on the campus of Chapman University in Orange, California. "[19], Her 1945 scat recording of "Flying Home" arranged by Vic Schoen would later be described by The New York Times as "one of the most influential vocal jazz records of the decade....Where other singers, most notably Louis Armstrong, had tried similar improvisation, no one before Miss Fitzgerald employed the technique with such dazzling inventiveness. A performance at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London was filmed and shown on the BBC. [84], There is a bronze sculpture of Fitzgerald in Yonkers, the city in which she grew up, created by American artist Vinnie Bagwell. Ella Jane Fitzgerald wurde 1917 in Newport News als Tochter von William und Temperance „Tempie“ Fitzgerald geboren. [9] In 1961 Fitzgerald bought a house in the Klampenborg district of Copenhagen, Denmark, after she began a relationship with a Danish man. She had even gone as far as furnishing an apartment in Oslo, but the affair was quickly forgotten when Larsen was sentenced to five months' hard labor in Sweden for stealing money from a young woman to whom he had previously been engaged. Charakteristisch ist der jugendliche Charme ihrer Stimme und ihre bis heute unübertroffene Leichtigkeit der Phrasierung, welche es ihr erlaubte, mit einem beachtlichen Stimmumfang von drei Oktaven wie ein Jazz-Instrumentalist zu improvisieren. Ihr zweiter Ehemann war von 1946 bis 1952 – andere Quellen nennen wiederum abweichende Daten, wie z. Ella Fitzgerald Accompanied By The Tommy Flanagan Trio *–. Her accolades included fourteen Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. While recording the Song Books and the occasional studio album, Fitzgerald toured 40 to 45 weeks per year in the United States and internationally, under the tutelage of Norman Granz. Ella Fitzgerald - A House Is Not a Home Lyrics. [17][18] Performing in the style of Connee Boswell, she sang "Judy" and "The Object of My Affection" and won first prize. [8][9] Ein weiterer Nummer-eins-Hit gelang ihr mit Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall im Jahre 1944. When asked, Norman Granz would cite "complex contractual reasons" for the fact that the two artists never recorded together. ... More Than You Know - Ella Fitzgerald & Oscar Peter... Ella Fitzgerald: A House Is Not A Home (1969) A House is Not A Home - … Sie litt lange Jahre an Diabetes, der gegen Ende ihres Lebens zur Erblindung führte. Ihr Vater war Fahrer, er verließ die Familie kurz nach der Geburt und starb ein Jahr später. It was a turning point in my life."[9]. "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" became a major hit on the radio and was also one of the biggest-selling records of the decade. [3] Her half-sister, Frances da Silva, was born in 1923. A room is a still a room, even when there's nothin' there but gloom But a room is not a house and a house is not a home When the two of us are far apart And one of us has a broken heart Now and then I call your name And suddenly your face appears But it's just a crazy game When it ends, it ends in tears Ed Dwight created a series of over 70 bronze sculptures at the St. Louis Arch Museum at the request of the National Park Service; the series, "Jazz: An American Art Form", depicts the evolution of jazz and features jazz performers including Fitzgerald. In 1980, she performed a medley of standards in a duet with Karen Carpenter on the Carpenters' television special Music, Music, Music. [89], In 2019, Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things, a documentary by Leslie Woodhead, was launched in the UK. [61] Her eyesight was affected as well.[9]. Das Geburtsjahr 1917 wird hier nach den Forschungen von Stuart Nicholson zu seiner Biografie. The advent of bebop led to new developments in Fitzgerald's vocal style, influenced by her work with Dizzy Gillespie's big band. She made her first recording in 1936, and in 1938 found fame with a hit rendition of “A-Tisket, A-Tasket,” recorded with the Chick Webb Orchestra. Eine weitere bedeutende Einspielung Fitzgeralds gibt es von Gershwins Oper Porgy and Bess, die sie gemeinsam mit Louis Armstrong aufnahm. On March 15, 1955, Ella Fitzgerald opened her initial engagement at the Mocambo nightclub in Hollywood,[35][36] after Marilyn Monroe lobbied the owner for the booking. [52] The tape was played back and the recording also broke another glass, asking: "Is it live, or is it Memorex? It is located southeast of the main entrance to the Amtrak/Metro-North Railroad station in front of the city's old trolley barn. The marriage was annulled in 1942. Her extensive cookbook collection was donated to the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, and her extensive collection of published sheet music was donated to UCLA. Um einiges später, in den 1980er Jahren, spielte sie in dem Fernsehdrama The White Shadow. She recorded several albums with piano accompaniment, but a guitar proved the perfect melodic foil for her. [16] She was introduced to drummer and bandleader Chick Webb, who had asked his recently signed singer Charlie Linton to help find him a female singer. 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. A chair is still a chair Even though there's no-one sitting there But a chair is not a house And a house is not a home When there's no-one t Aus dieser Ehe stammt die 1923 geborene Halbschwester Frances. Darüber hinaus gibt es zahlreiche Live-Einspielungen der Konzerte von Fitzgerald, die zeigen, dass es keinen Unterschied zwischen einem Studio- oder Livegig bei ihr gab. African-American singers Herb Jeffries,[38] Eartha Kitt,[39] and Joyce Bryant[40] all played the Mocambo in 1952 and 1953, according to stories published at the time in Jet magazine and Billboard. It had previously been widely reported that Fitzgerald was the first black performer to play the Mocambo, following Monroe's intervention, but this is not true. "[47], After Pete Kelly's Blues, she appeared in sporadic movie cameos, in St. Louis Blues (1958)[48] and Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960). Fitzgerald made her first tour of Australia in July 1954 for the Australian-based American promoter Lee Gordon. The Song Book series ended up becoming the singer's most critically acclaimed and commercially successful work, and probably her most significant offering to American culture. 10. Ella Fitzgerald - A House Is Not a Home (Letra e música para ouvir) - Doo doo doo doo doo / Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo / Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo / Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh / … Verve Records was sold to MGM in 1963 for $3 million and in 1967 MGM failed to renew Fitzgerald's contract. [60] In 1993, she had to have both of her legs amputated below the knee due to the effects of diabetes. Doo doo doo doo doo. Her accompanist Tommy Flanagan affectionately remembered Fitzgerald on his album Lady be Good ... For Ella (1994). ... oh, oh. 3:33. 1, We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ella_Fitzgerald&oldid=1018586946, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners, United States National Medal of Arts recipients, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Pages using Template:Infobox musical artist with unknown parameters, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2014, Articles needing additional references from April 2020, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2021, Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, From 1943 to 1950, Fitzgerald recorded seven songs with the Ink Spots featuring Bill Kenny. In 1993 both of her legs were amputated below the knees. The theater is located several blocks away from her birthplace on Marshall Avenue. 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. Lyrics. The Grand Opening performers (October 11 and 12, 2008) were Roberta Flack and Queen Esther Marrow. She died at her Beverly Hills home on June 15, 1996. [16] But it was her 1938 version of the nursery rhyme, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket", a song she co-wrote, that brought her public acclaim. Fitzgerald and Brown divorced in 1953, bowing to the various career pressures both were experiencing at the time, though they would continue to perform together. Aufgrund der damaligen Rassentrennung wurde Ella, trotz ihrer Erfolge, immer noch bei vielen Auftritten ausgegrenzt, so sorgte Marilyn Monroe, die ein großer Fan von ihr war, mit ihrer Bekanntheit 1954 dafür, dass sie endlich für große Bühnen gebucht wurde und half dadurch entscheidend zu ihrem endgültigen Durchbruch als Jazz-Star mit. [citation needed]. 12. [31] This was the first of Gordon's famous "Big Show" promotions and the 'package' tour also included Buddy Rich, Artie Shaw and comedian Jerry Colonna. Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. Her rendition of the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" helped boost both her and Webb to national fame. In 1942, with increasing dissent and money concerns in Fitzgerald's band, Ella and Her Famous Orchestra, she started to work as lead singer with The Three Keys, and in July her band played their last concert at Earl Theatre in Philadelphia. "[19], From 1949 to 1956, Fitzgerald resided in St. Albans, New York, an enclave of prosperous African Americans where she counted among her neighbors, Illinois Jacquet, Count Basie, Lena Horne, and other jazz luminaries. [3] Ihre Mutter arbeitete in einer Wäscherei und im Gastronomiebereich, ihr portugiesischer Stiefvater als Grubenbauer und Teilzeitchauffeur. Pianist Paul Smith has said, "Ella loved working with [Frank]. Bridgewater's album Dear Ella (1997) featured many musicians that were closely associated with Fitzgerald during her career, including the pianist Lou Levy, the trumpeter Benny Powell, and Fitzgerald's second husband, double bassist Ray Brown. I thought be-bop was 'it', and that all I had to do was go some place and sing bop. 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)". It featured rare footage, radio broadcasts and interviews with Jamie Cullum, Andre Previn, Johnny Mathis, and other musicians, plus a long interview with Fitzgerald's son, Ray Brown Jr.[55], sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFNicholson2004 (, harvnb error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFNicholson2004 (, Jessica Bissett Perea. Trumpet player Mario Bauzá, who played behind Fitzgerald in her early years with Chick Webb, remembered that "she didn't hang out much. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. In 1997, Newport News, Virginia created a week-long music festival with Christopher Newport University to honor Fitzgerald in her birth city. [16], Met with approval by both audiences and her fellow musicians, Fitzgerald was asked to join Webb's orchestra and gained acclaim as part of the group's performances at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom. Ihren wohl größten Filmauftritt hatte Fitzgerald 1955 in Jack Webbs Jazz-Film Pete Kelly’s Blues. Im Folgenden eine Auflistung ihrer klassischen Songbooks für das Label Verve und die dazugehörigen Arrangeure: Für andere Plattenfirmen nahm sie später ebenfalls Songbooks auf, unter anderem erneut mit Liedern der Gebrüder Gershwin sowie Cole Porter und Antônio Carlos Jobim. Bridgewater's following album, Live at Yoshi's, was recorded live on April 25, 1998, what would have been Fitzgerald's 81st birthday. Ihr Vater war Fahrer, er verließ die Familie kurz nach der Geburt und starb ein Jahr später. So begann sie 1941 ihre Solokarriere und entwickelte sich zu einer der größten Jazzsängerinnen. ... Ella Fitzgerald included this on her 1969 live album "Sunshine of Your Love" I realized then that there was more to music than bop. [64], Fitzgerald was notoriously shy. [9], In July 1957, Reuters reported that Fitzgerald had secretly married Thor Einar Larsen, a young Norwegian, in Oslo. Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz vocalist with a … While Fitzgerald appeared in movies 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 of her solo career. While singing with Gillespie, Fitzgerald recalled, "I just tried to do [with my voice] what I heard the horns in the band doing. Ann Hampton Callaway, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Patti Austin have all recorded albums in tribute to Fitzgerald. It was in this period that Fitzgerald started including scat singing as a major part of her performance repertoire. The statue's location is one of 14 tour stops on the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County. Austin's album, For Ella (2002) features 11 songs most immediately associated with Fitzgerald, and a twelfth song, "Hearing Ella Sing" is Austin's tribute to Fitzgerald. [68][71], In 1993, Fitzgerald established the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation focusing on charitable grants for four major categories: academic opportunities for children, music education, basic care needs for the less fortunate, medical research revolving around diabetes, heart disease, and vision impairment. Play. The career history and archival material from Fitzgerald's long career are housed in the Archives Center at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, while her personal music arrangements are at the Library of Congress. [5] Ein Jahr später floh sie nach Harlem. [49], She made numerous guest appearances on television shows, singing on The Frank Sinatra Show, The Carol Burnett Show, The Andy Williams Show, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, and alongside other greats Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Mel Tormé, and many others. 25.4K subscribers. Stattdessen sang sie das Lied Judy, komponiert von Hoagy Carmichael und ein Lieblingslied ihrer Mutter, wie auch The Object of My Affection, das im selben Jahr ein Nummer-eins-Hit der Boswell Sisters war. It was released in the UK in 2019.[55]. [85], On January 9, 2007, the United States Postal Service announced that Fitzgerald would be honored with her own postage stamp.