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The Music Goes Round and Round | Ella Fitzgerald | Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! (1961)
- Ella Fitzgerald vocals
- Lou Levy piano
- Herb Ellis guitar
- Joe Mondragon bass
- Gus Johnson drums
Errol Garner plays his 1954 composition Misty, live on the BRT studio, Brussels 1964.
Just the next year, Ella Fitzgerald would sing Johnny Burke’s lyrics, which I absolutely love, live in London with the Tommy Flanagan trio, listen below.
Look at me
I’m as helpless as a kitten up a tree
And I feel like I’m clinging to a cloud
I can’t understand
I get misty, just holding your hand
Walk my way
And a thousand violins begin to play
Or it might be the sound of your hello
That music I hear
I get misty, whenever you’re near
You can say that you’re leading me on,
But it’s just what I want you to do
Don’t you notice how hopelessly I’m lost?
That’s why I’m following you
On my own
Would I wander through this wonderland of love?
Never knowing my right foot from my left,
My hat from my gloves
I’m too misty, and too much in love
Too misty, and too much in love
Look at me
Ella Fitzgerald sings How High the Moon,
from Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife (1960).
13 February 1960, Deutschlandhalle, Berlin
I don’t think I have to comment on this.
- Ella Fitzgerald away back home in Idaho
- Paul Smith piano
- Jim Hall guitar
- Wilfred Middlebrooks double bass
- Gus Johnson drums
Ella Fitzgerald sings Just You, Just Me, from Ella Swings Lightly (1958), with the Marty Paich’s Dek-tette.
Just you, just me
Let’s find a cozy spot
To cuddle and coo
Just us, just we
I’ve missed an awful lot
My trouble is you
Oh, gee!
What are your charms for?
What are my arms for?
Use your imagination!
Just you, just me
I’ll tie a lover’s knot
‘Round wonderful you!
- Bud Shank alto sax
- Bill Holman tenor sax
- Med Flory baritone sax
- Lou Levy piano, featured
- Joe Mondragon bass, featured
- Mel Lewis drums
- Don Fagerquist, Al Porcino trumpets
- Bob Enevoldsen valve trombone or tenor sax
- Vince DeRosa french horn
Jersey Bounce, sung by Ella Fitzgerald, from Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! (1961).
- Ella Fitzgerald vocals
- Lou Levy piano
- Herb Ellis guitar
- Joe Mondragon bass
- Gus Johnson drums
Ella Fitzgerald sings Juan Tizol’s jazz standard Caravan with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, from Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1957), which won her a Grammy award in 1959.
Mind the dissonance.
Night and stars above that shine so bright
The myst’ry of their fading light
That shines upon our caravan
Sleep upon my shoulder as we creep
Across the sand so I may keep
This mem’ry of our caravan
This is so exciting
You are so inviting
Resting in my arms
As I thrill to the magic charms
Of you beside me here beneath the blue
My dream of love is coming true
Within our desert caravan
