This is my first Ella Fitzgerald video, and I decided to make it a Christmas Themed video at that. Hope you guys enjoy. Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
Tonight, 10/30/2024, I listened to this song (fully) for the first time. How beautiful, smooth and velvety! Wow, what a Heavenly instrument she was! Simply beautiful.
+NFL Sucks ass, you should boycott it!!! Ella underrated? Ask the best singers of today and they'll all say Ella was the greatest. All the stars of Ella's generation said she was the greatest too. She's under-appreciated in 2016... but she's not underrated.
What a wonderful era! We grew up when our parents were still loving this music. We were blessed to have the best of both worlds. Ella Fitzgerald had a fabulous voice. Marilyn knew talent.
I am from 'this generation' 22 years old... unfortunately, too many of my peers do not recognize the beauty that is this music. Truly magnificent vocalist here, more people should appreciate it.
When Facebook asked me to present a song for the holidays I immediately thought of Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of What are you doing New Years Eve.🎼🎵🎶 No one does it like Ella!! Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to you all!❤🌲💚🌲🌈
If you want to realize what a genius Ella Fitzgerald was listen to her live recording of Mack the Knife in which she forgets the lyrics. Brilliance personified.
@@Alessandro924i It was her live performance in Berlin 1960, there are plenty of recordings if you search it up on UA-cam. Here's a video essay with some backstory too: ua-cam.com/video/qU7R1w0aNF0/v-deo.html
I fell in love with this song because of the college football commercial so I had to search this and I am now in love with this song including it was just New Years so I played this song on New Years and New Years eve🎶🎵
In the last picture, Sir Duke is totally captivated by her. That picture has fascinated me since I first saw it. The look on Duke Ellington's face is how I feel about Ella and her music, her creative spirit, her voice. Ella's voice was and remains one of great wonders of the world, yet its sound is from somewhere beyond the coil of mortality. Hers is a sound thats purely human in its primal expression and yet paradoxically supernatural in its transcendent perfection.
Here is talent at it's best! one of the finest female voices of the 20th century sad but gone only to be remembered on recordings we will miss you but you will be welcome in heaven!
@Dior4im "I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt. It was because of her that I played the Mocambo, a very popular nightclub in the '50s. She personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him - and it was true, due to Marilyn's superstar status - that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night." - Ella Fitzgerald
What a beautiful work of art On one hand, it’s a song about the celebratory traditions of New Year’s Eve, but at the same time it’s also about the girl who doesn’t get ‘picked’, who isn’t ___ enough, and knows it. For the popular and privileged, this song jubilantly reminds you of the best times, but for the invisible, for the lower classed, for the ones who don’t get ‘picked’, it’s an ode to all the times you were rejected and ignored. Ella manages to sing both songs, for everyone in the room when the clock strikes midnight, all at once.
Someone asked why there were 13 dislikes. It’s because they’ve heard the caucasians sing it later and until they saw her. Ella didn’t play. Beautiful rendition!
Am the biggest fan of composers, the heart and soul of music. Bing Crosby once said, the singer is only as good as the composer and their talents. Frank Loesser, one of the absolute best. Composers, the unsung heros but oddly rarely mentioned.
@Dior4im "The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn't know it." - Ella Fitzgerald
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Listening on New Year’s Eve 2024. hope everyone has a happy and healthy 2025 xx
Happy NewYear2025🎆🎇🎉✨️
We’re listening with you. Ella is immortal.😊
Tonight, 10/30/2024, I listened to this song (fully) for the first time. How beautiful, smooth and velvety! Wow, what a Heavenly instrument she was! Simply beautiful.
Like a warm, fuzzy blanket oozing down around my shoulders... I could listen to this all day!
They don't make vocalists like this anymore! Spectacular, stunning, and quite simply, perfection
AMEN
🎯💯They don't write songs like this anymore either.
Happy New Year 2024
Here on Dec 31, 2021 because, Ella. My soul needed this amidst the chaos.
Hello 👋 Jenny
How are you doing today?
Class, pure class
Getting ready for 2025 Just had to listen to this happy new year 🎉
I loved this arrangement by her ever since I was a little girl - my mother had the album back in the early 60's ... Thanks for the memories.
Dolladie I love this songs too..
How are you doing today?
I love listening to Ella Fitzgerald. she has such a beautiful voice that's so full of passion
+Sanny D. So underrated. I mean it was Billy Holiday, Nina Simone and Bessie Smith people usually think of.
+NFL Sucks ass, you should boycott it!!! Ella underrated? Ask the best singers of today and they'll all say Ella was the greatest. All the stars of Ella's generation said she was the greatest too. She's under-appreciated in 2016... but she's not underrated.
Ella's voice is pure honey. Love it.
What a wonderful era! We grew up when our parents were still loving this music. We were blessed to have the best of both worlds. Ella Fitzgerald had a fabulous voice. Marilyn knew talent.
I am from 'this generation' 22 years old... unfortunately, too many of my peers do not recognize the beauty that is this music. Truly magnificent vocalist here, more people should appreciate it.
And great arrangement!
I love it when the verse is sung to open the song.
What. wonderful style. Lady Ella was soo splendid. An American icon defining a special time in our country.
12-25-23 proud listener
The inner light in her shines brightly through her singing
I love all the younger generations expressing such open-mindedness and appreciation for the one of the Greatest.
She has some amazing tones in her voice.
Cannot understand why there's 13 dislikes. How do you hate perfection??
+Nakkid Frodo It frustrates them that they can't sing like this. She makes it sound so easy.
Nakkid Frodo
...when you refuse to attempt it!
35 peoples
EXACTLY!!!
Honestly it's probably just the sound quality. This sounds like 240p even on the highest setting
Her impeccable phrasing! The band creating a sublime setting! We are in the presence of genius.
Ella owns this Frank Loesser classic written around '47.
I haven't heard anyone to top her with this rendition.
Love her voice. So crystal clear.
When Facebook asked me to present a song for the holidays I immediately thought of Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of What are you doing New Years Eve.🎼🎵🎶 No one does it like Ella!!
Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to you all!❤🌲💚🌲🌈
Every year around this time I love listening to this song. It makes me so hopeful of the upcoming New Year.
This song gives me goosebumps....classic perfection
Love the Horns in the background !!!
Horns are the best!
If you want to realize what a genius Ella Fitzgerald was listen to her live recording of Mack the Knife in which she forgets the lyrics.
Brilliance personified.
YES! I love it. Such a fun version!
What are you doing, New Year's Eve? ;-)
where can I find this version pls?
@@Alessandro924i It was her live performance in Berlin 1960, there are plenty of recordings if you search it up on UA-cam. Here's a video essay with some backstory too: ua-cam.com/video/qU7R1w0aNF0/v-deo.html
Ella makes it all better.
Used to love watching her TV show years ago. The most soothing voice..never that warble sound so many have. Just beautiful!
Her voice!! 😍
This song and voice is always the contemporary sound and mood of the Christmas holiday season, perfectly to a T.
Thank you, Ella Fitzgerald.
One of my all time favorite songs ❤️
The BEST singer ever for this song!
Beautiful voice, sings this song so magically
I fell in love with this song because of the college football commercial so I had to search this and I am now in love with this song including it was just New Years so I played this song on New Years and New Years eve🎶🎵
What a fantastic singer. I love Lady Ella. Thank you for posting.
Loved every second!!!
There are numerous covers of this song but this is Number 1.
I saw this in the short college football playoff commercial and the woman's voice gave me the chills because it was so good.
You should listen to some of her other songs! Also check out Billie Holiday. Their voices are both beautiful
Love the commercial!
In the last picture, Sir Duke is totally captivated by her. That picture has fascinated me since I first saw it. The look on Duke Ellington's face is how I feel about Ella and her music, her creative spirit, her voice. Ella's voice was and remains one of great wonders of the world, yet its sound is from somewhere beyond the coil of mortality. Hers is a sound thats purely human in its primal expression and yet paradoxically supernatural in its transcendent perfection.
Thank you for posting this! I had never heard this song. Love it!
Hello 👋 Ellen
How are you doing today?
The College Football commercial brought me here to. Ella is smooth as silk.
+Vincent Brooks Yes, she was.
Merveilleuse Ella, we miss you 😍❤💋👍
Here is talent at it's best! one of the finest female voices of the 20th century sad but gone only to be remembered on recordings we will miss you but you will be welcome in heaven!
What a wonderful singer, what a great voice!
Beautiful singing. Beautiful song. :)
A classic from Ella.
Happy New Year 2018
Beautiful voice, perfect pitch, so smooth. Happy holidays!
I like on repeat this time of year
Beautiful ‼️🎶🎶🎶🎶🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌲🌹🌹🌹🎶🎶🌹🎶🎶🌹🎶🎶🎶🌹🙏✨✨✨
Performing this tonight. Can't wait! =D
How are there 20 dislikes???? Ella is the best!
People are stupid.
Last 20 mins of 2020 yay🎉🎉
Happy New Year, 2022!
Good question...great song!
Total class😊
Best remake of the song yet!
Just beautiful- she is!
Love and happy New Years
Amen. Ella Fitzgerald is one of the legends.
@Dior4im "I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt. It was because of her that I played the Mocambo, a very popular nightclub in the '50s. She personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him - and it was true, due to Marilyn's superstar status - that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night." - Ella Fitzgerald
Lucky you!!!
@@TheAutumwithoutu The Mocambo and Marilyn were the lucky ones.
Niiiice
@@555kappockthat’s right ❤
She is such a Beautiful woman and a to Fabulous Singer ❤❤❤❤
lovely just so pleasing to listen to
Voice like silk ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
this the perfection !!!
She is such a soulful lady but I truly love the way Steve Pery did this song too.
Hello 👋 Rita
How are you doing today?
as said comment below PERFECTION WONDERFUL VOICE
Today is December 31, 2020 hello everyone
hello to you too
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year 2022
Such a happy and sad song. :(
What a beautiful work of art
On one hand, it’s a song about the celebratory traditions of New Year’s Eve, but at the same time it’s also about the girl who doesn’t get ‘picked’, who isn’t ___ enough, and knows it. For the popular and privileged, this song jubilantly reminds you of the best times, but for the invisible, for the lower classed, for the ones who don’t get ‘picked’, it’s an ode to all the times you were rejected and ignored. Ella manages to sing both songs, for everyone in the room when the clock strikes midnight, all at once.
It's wonderful! Thank you. And Happy New Year 2018!
The Best, often duplicated but never beaten
I love to know we're did Ella sing the way she do. Should be making a movie about Ella like yesterday. To me she is the I singer in her era.
nice work. beautifully done.
WOW...LOVE the intro!!!
💜CLASSIC
She's the best! Wow, what apicture of her and Marilyn!
Angel Voice
+Captured Angel lol my name is Captured Angel
Someone asked why there were 13 dislikes. It’s because they’ve heard the caucasians sing it later and until they saw her. Ella didn’t play. Beautiful rendition!
Listening in 2021 Amazing Ella
New Years is really far away but this still puts me in a good mood for some reason :-)
May 2021 be a better year
The greatest female vocalist.
What an amazing singer Ella is.
I love Ella
listening to you miss Ella Fitzgerald
sublime
Her voice was perfect
Am the biggest fan of composers, the heart and soul of music. Bing Crosby once said, the singer is only
as good as the composer and their talents. Frank Loesser, one of the absolute best. Composers, the unsung heros
but oddly rarely mentioned.
The jackpot question!
She my favorite singer
I am 15 and I must say Ella Fitzgerald has real class and style.
12-31-23 listener
I literally got the college football commercial on this video! Lol!
NO ONE SINGS THIS SONG BETTER THAN ELLA‼️😻💄👄👏😍😍😍😍😍
+NycBeauty Karen Carpenter's version was pretty good though.
+NFL Sucks ass, you should boycott it!!! The Four Knights version... and the Orioles version. The Orioles had the biggest hit with it though.
Currently we are on the brink of a new year. I hope things will get better
Amen
Did they?
this kind of jazz always transports me to the climax of a romantic movie
@Dior4im "The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn't know it." - Ella Fitzgerald
Such an intersting story about this song