It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Saturday, April 25, 2015

Exactly 102 Years Ago Today

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Imagine...
A God named THEA, short for Atheasta
Or a God named God
Or Buddah
Or Allah
 Or Babruth
Or Insert Your Name here 
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Imagine...
Every time a new baby is born, this person is responsible 
for select body parts that comprise a human being.
 On the top most shelf of the supply room,
 there it was–bubble-wrapped 
 and stamped  PSV 
 (Perfect Singing Voice)         



April 25, 1915        
  
Exactly one hundred and two years ago today:
it was given to a not-so-distant cousin of Scott Fitzgerald.
Her name is  Ella Jane Fitzgerald.
She was born with the Perfect Singing Voice...

The GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK
 was created for her.
I will prove this now:


With Count Basies's Band, Ella sings
the Irving Berlin classic:
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm


Duke Ellington's  Take The A Train
is a subway local with a vocal
by Queen Ella.


The brilliance of Gershwin's  They All Laughed
is it is both a classic song and a valuable history lesson.
Laugh along with Ella.


After a 15-second un-skipable advert,
you can hear Ella sing Sole Porter's
most controversial song:
Love For Sale


If Rodgers and Hart's  Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
were included in every American high school poetry book,
American students would put all others to shame.
Hit it, Ella and don't forget
the "ants in your pants."
































































































Click  here  for the possibility of 50 + minutes
of the only vocal duets that inspire the Great Creator
to take the phone off the hook.

I end this page with two people
who make their home on Mt. Olympus:
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.



It would be
a great deprivation
to your ears
if this page
excluded
Ella + Louis
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1 comment:

  1. I have a theory why young people
    do not listen to Ella Fitzgerald:

    If they did, they would find it impossible
    to listen to Alanis Morrisette or Alicia Keys
    or Beyonce or any other female singers
    not named Billy Holiday or Nina Simone or...

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