Okay, I know this isn’t strictly movie-related, but in honor of the late, great Ella Fitzgerald’s would-be 98th birthday today, I felt a post was warranted anyway. I enjoy most kinds of music, but at the end of the day my heart belongs to the jazz and “easy listening” tunes from the 1940s-1960s. It’s just hard to top those beautiful old standards penned by the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and the other fantastic composers of the Great American Songbook. While many artists recorded their own versions of these songs, my favorite artist from this period will always be Ella Fitzgerald. Her career spanned an incredible SIXTY YEARS. And I …
