Ella Fitzgerald - Fascinating Rhythm Lyrics

1.25 or 1.5 speed is nice

1:75 speed ;) sounds a little bit more like Jacob's version

Most excellent

Hi. Hope u can listen to my electone cover of this song. Thank you :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_OXp4Tv3gg

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Listened to Jacob Colier's version before this, and it sounds so slow! I still like it, though!

It is a wonderful version. Nelson Riddle was a fantastic arranger, but he did not swing as hard as Billy May, for example

@Matheus Bezerra de Lima https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYbu7oO3yts

Versión española en letrascantables punto blogspot punto com

Bass-o-matic - Fasinating Rhythm 😱 1990 UK William orbit inspired by Ella Fitzgerald 🙄

First time I heard this version magnificent !!!!🔥🔥🙂

richie blackmore borrowed this for Burn

Wtf 1:45????

I know that in the original version it is "the man" but please man, if you could just understand how opressed this woman was in her life...

Simone Evar - Ikr???

She's a woman, she changed the lyrics, this is not the first time this has been done

Heard many versions of this tune, but Ella masters it, in a way no one can duplicate. Just like her rendition of Midnight Sun. Her timing,vocal style, intonation, etc. are just impeccable.

You should absolutely check out Jacob Collier's rendition! It is incredible!

omg my school in vocal are doing this song ahhh

Sometimes just sometimes you hit upon a number that expresses the very moment of your feelings with its sublime lyrics.

Deep Purple "Burn".... Just sayin'.

Exactamente... :D

Electronic Adventures Very astute observation

I point this out to rock guys all the time... blank stares all the time.

awesome, try listening to it at 1.25 time

One of my favorite songs

Wunnerful x

This is not the one i was looking for.

Great version still

Everyone needs a little of Ella magic in their lives. Her voice brightens the darkest moods.

So true, so very true. Tommy

A little Gerswin doesn't hurt either

And for the holidays listen to her sing “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”

a gershwin & gershwin jazzzz classic performed by a classsic jazzzz singer

Spot on Mac. Tommy

magnifique

sarah vaughan has a wonderful rendition as well

cest bien vrai

Not a word about who wrote it, why it was written, or when it was written! So I'm gonna go look it up, and do the same... say nothing. Where does this get us if it becomes the common problem that it has become!

Artist - title (date)
Written by Common Courtesy and learning this from observation.

@Lengo67 Written by George Gershwin, lyrics by his brother Ira Gershwin. Their sister said when he first heard it Ira walked out of the studio saying 'how do you expect me to write a lyric for that!'

+Helen Bang I believe it was one of the last pieces George Gershwin wrote before his death.

+Neil Haslam No, it was published in his 1932 songbook, he died in 1937. His Dad misheard the title and called it 'Fashion on the River'. The last song George and Ira wrote was "Love is here to stay."

+Helen Bang Thanks for clarifying that. Kind regards.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascinating_Rhythm as a basic reference. It was written in 1924 for the musical, "Lady Be Good". I've seen the musical. In the reprise of the tune at the end, it is retitled "Fascinating Wedding", because since the musical is a comedy, the boy and girl get married at the end.

What must it have been like to see this in your local town's (probably only) record shop window?!?!?!

Got a little rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm
That pit-a-pats through my brain;
So darn persistant,
The day isn't distant
When it'll drive me insane.
Comes in the morning
Without any warning,
And hangs around me all day.
I'll have to sneak up to it
Someday, and speak up to it.
I hope it listens when I say:

Refrain:
Fascinating Rhythm,
You've got me on the go!
Fascinating Rhythm,
I'm all a-quiver.

What a mess you're making!
The neighbours want to know
Why I'm always shaking
Just like a flivver.

Each morning I get up with the sun -
Start a-hopping,
Never stopping -
To find at night no work has been done.

I know that
Once it didn't matter -
But now you're doing wrong;
When you start to patter
I'm so unhappy.

Won't you take a day off?
Decide to run along
Somewhere far away off -
And make it snappy!

Oh, how I long to be the gal I used to be!
Fascinating rhythm,
Why won't you stop picking on me?

So beautiful

So beautiful

thanks for posting this remaster.. youtube has been lacking a good version of this for many years...........................x