Anyone Saying I Corrupted Students ... Is Correct ... [Page Four]

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What a wonderful world

this would be 

If I had ever actually met

Ella Fitzgerald, 

Billie Holiday,

Dinah Washington,

Sarah Vaughan

or 

Big Maybelle

[Cuz I dream Big]

HOWEVER

to say 

"I met Ella Fitzgerald"

is a partial truth

because 

of a film entitled

Pirates of Silicon Valley

 

A scene in the film

depicts 

Steve Jobs

+

Bill Gates

dining in a restaurant

whose prestige is depicted 

by having

Ella Fitzgerald

singing in the next room

 

Of course,

it isn't the actual Ella

nor is it the 

actual Jobs or Gates

 

The actress who portrayed

Ella Fitzgerald was

CARDELLA Di MILO

 

Not only did I know Cardella

but I gave her $500

to perform for students

at Jefferson High School

 

That money was raised 

by the sale of 2000 donuts

on campus

 

Each donut

generated 25 cents profit

and 

I had administrative approval

to sell the goodies

on campus

but I had to provide

the main office

with a free box 

of chocolate cruellers

 

 

THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH

about this "corrupting" project

is that it would not exist

if it weren't for

Cardella

 

If her musical career

had one-tenth

the brilliance

she demonstrated

at that concert,

her name would have

naturally fit in

the same prestigious

category of

Billie, Ella,

and Dinah 

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© OLIVERIO ©

 

 

Page 4.5

is  here

and presents 

the lyrics

of the 

corrupting song

Cardella sang

to the ecstatic delight

of Jefferson students

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