BLUE
SKIES
ELLA FITZGERALD
SONGWRITER: IRVING BERLIN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: GET HAPPY
LABEL: VERVE RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1959
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". She was noted for her purity of tone,
impeccable diction,
phrasing, timing, intonation,
and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
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. Her rendition of the nursery
rhyme "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" helped boost both her
and Webb to national fame. After taking over the band when Webb died,
Fitzgerald left it behind in 1942 to start her solo career. Her
manager was Moe Gale, co-founder of the Savoy, until she turned the rest of her
career over to Norman Granz, who
founded Verve Records to produce new records by Fitzgerald. With Verve she recorded some
of her more widely noted works, particularly her interpretations of the Great
American Songbook.
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. 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)". In 1993, after a career
of nearly 60 years, she gave her last public performance. Three years later,
she died at the age of 79 after years of declining health. Her
accolades included 14Grammy Awards, the National
Medal of Arts, the NAACP's inaugural President's Award, and the
Presidential
Medal of Freedom.
Get Happy! is a 1959 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded
with various studio orchestras over a two-year period.
Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see
Bluebirds
Singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds
All day long
Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly
Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on
I never saw the sun
shining so bright
Never saw things going oh-so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly
Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on.
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