Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: a poll of the three classic albums on Verve

ah maaaaaaannnnn

can this be on ILM ? is anybody going to vote in my great poll if it is over here on ILE ?

I will vote in your poll. (Also who doesn’t read ILX by SNA, anyway?)

i'll vote

Porgy & Bess! which doesn't actually have an exclamation mark in the title like My other fave Ella Verve album Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!

I Got Plenty O' Nuttin is my theme song!

ha !

also one of my favorite interpretation of "it ain't necessarily so"

my vote is for P&G for sure, it's been in my life for a long time and i have a fond memory of buying the CD from a guy on the street in NYC and playing it on my discman non-stop for a few weeks one summer.

PorGy & bess i mean

"ella and louis" on the other hand has the best album cover art

https://img.discogs.com/Ry9ygUTKHbtrILh8vvhej60jFxU=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-13662230-1572810765-7127.jpeg.jpg

and a rendition of "april in paris" that i'm very fond of

they wouldn't get a million followers on twitter these days for not looking like fucking models or movie stars

trenchant!

Ella and Louis Again is generally quite breezy and nice but it sounds like in the first verse Louis is singing "the rain will bring the violence of men, tears are in vain" which would be very otm nihilistic goth end-times commentary for now.

oops I meant on the opening verse of Don't Be That Way

the rain will bring the violence of men

can't un-hear this now

Buddy Rich is on drums for the first one, a seldom-discussed fact I like to bring up when people dismiss him. It's cool to hear him in a totally supportive ballad mode.

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This Porgy and Bess is great. Where has it been all my life?

For he made his home in
That fish abdomen

To get into heaven
Don't snap for a seven

Again is a double album!

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Rhonda Hamilton seems to be back on WBGO. Since Louis Armstrong's birthday is apparently actually this month, other claims to the contrary, she's playing a lot of Louis and Ella today.