I Loves You Porgy

If you can keep me

I wanna stay here 

With you forever 

And I'll be glad

I Loves You, Porgy

One of my favorite recordings of a personal favorite, "I Loves You, Porgy." Fitzgerald's perfect voice enhances this haunting melody, pushing it in different directions than the instrumental recordings I usually listen to. Listening to Ella sing the standards has been my thing for the last week or two now...so much to learn.

You Do Something To Me

A lovely Cole Porter standard interpreted by the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald. Perhaps like "Katie Went to Haiti," Cole Porter was thinking about the recent US occupation of Haiti to inspire the lyrics ('voodoo), but regardless of that, it's an excellent. song.