Fitzgerald, Ella - Isn't It A Pity Lyrics

isnt it a pity that the World has lost Romance but there is still a chance when you listen to songs like these

You're right there, Pal!

I place this in the upper 1/2% of both Ella's recordings and the Gershwin songs.

Where's the second verse? This is too slow!

@Tobias Mostel First of all, congratulations for being the son of such an important comedian as Zero Mostel. I will search his work.

You are putting a lot of racial pretext that I honestly do not care when listening to music, I want only great music with no racial distinction. Also, not every interpretation needs to be crazy jazz. Ella's songbooks are made on the following assumptions:

1-The songs are great
2-The voice and singer is great
3-If you have a great singer and great songs, you only needs to sing them fairly straight without changing the melody significantly, respecting the composer.

Did you listen to the version of But Not For Me that I sent to you? And you still did not comment about Riddle's arrangement of I've Got You Under My Skin and Ella's versions of Sam And Delilah and 'S Wonderful in the Gershwin songbook, those are the definitive versions of these songs for me. These are the only questions I have.

What do you think the other Gershwin dedicated album made by Ella, the "Ella Sings Gershwin" album released for Decca in 1950 with only Ella and pianist Ellis Larkins?

Al Jolson had an operatic style. He was a great singer, but singers such as Crosby would develop and use more the new possibilities of softness and tenderness allowed by the microphone.

About what you wrote related to Wikipedia, should I presume that Ira Gershwin said the famous quote often atributed to her "I never knew how good our songs were until Ella sung them"? According to the Wikipedia's references, the source is this article originally published in 1986 by The New York Times.


https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/15/arts/half-a-century-of-song-with-the-great-ella.html


It says in the article, which is highly recommend:


"She's won every award she might have aspired to, from endless listener's polls as favorite jazz and pop singer to Grammies to a Kennedy Center Award. 'I never knew how good our songs were,' Ira Gershwin once said to George T. Simon, 'until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them.'"


God bless you, my best wishes for the future and never forget to honor the legacy of your father with care and respect, preserving his work in the best possible condition.

What do you think about this version, by Sarah Vaughan?

https://youtu.be/Q8EWvsVx_ug

Please, recommend me the best versions of this song.

@@Matheus Bezerra de Lima Your line of argument is correct. Tobias is arguing for interpretations echoing stage performance rather than jazz or studio recordings, which have an entirely different interpretative purpose, emphasizing the PERSONAL rather than the documentary recreation. You are also correct about the era. The post WWII graduation of our top jazz singers from the bands to independent careers was the golden era of song interpretation.

So slow.

This is sweet, romantic and sublime. Arranged by the master Nelson Riddle.

What do you think about this version?

https://youtu.be/Q8EWvsVx_ug

What are the best versions for you?

Isn't it a pity, I've never listened to this before...

So sublime.