![]() She also recorded songs with Benny Goodman’s Orchestra. She recorded almost 150 songs with Chick Webb’s Orchestra. It was a big hit on the radio and one of the biggest-selling records of the decade. Paganini).” She wrote and recorded her version of the nursery rhyme “A-Tisket, A-Tasket.” This song got her attention. She recorded several hit songs such as “Love and Kisses” and “(If You Can’t Sing It) You’ll Have to Swing It (Mr. Chick Webb asked her to join his orchestra. ![]() She was a hit with the audience and musicians. He decided to give her an opportunity by letting her sing with his band. He didn’t want to sign her at first because he didn’t like the way she looked. She also performed at the Harlem Opera House. She won first prize during amateur night. ![]() She got her start in show business by singing in the Apollo Theater. That said, if anyone finds egregious errors in what is displayed, please contact me with the correct information.Feature Photo: Riksarkivet (National Archives of Norway) from Oslo, Norway, No restrictions, via Wikimedia CommonsĮlla Fitzgerald was born Ella Jane Fitzgerald on Ap– June 15, 1996. I prefer to leave them as Miky left them. Not being an expert on Ella Fitzgerald, I'm not keen on making updates to these pages. I am posting these pages here because I'm certain Miky would want to share thisīear in mind this discography was completed in 2006 so there will be many releases issued since then that are not referenced. The exact copy he used to post his discography, very close to it. It is not uncommon for BRIAN users to send me a copy of theirĭatabase - sometimes to use in debugging a problem they were having.īased on the file creation date I am fairly certain this copy is, if not I have recently found a copy of Miky's database in an old backup archive pointed to that discographyįor several years after Miky's death, butĮventually the site disappeared so the data was lost. Miky's website had a very nice discography of Ella Fitzgerald that wasĬreated using BRIAN. ![]() Miky left us much too early as a very young man in the Spring of 2007 due to Leukemia. Window of my BRIAN discography software where his artwork is on display. His generosity toward me is still showing in the About Knowledge of singers of the Great American Songbook - in particularĮlla Fitzgerald. Generosity in sharing records from his collection and his extensive Michele "Miky" Scasso was an esteemed member of Songbirds known for his ![]()
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