Jo Welch

Yes, I think the tune, lyrics, musicians and Ella combined to make a mini masterpiece

YouTube video by The Carpenters - Topic Goodbye To Love

With lyrics more in tune with the darkness you wanted:

Token 2: Goodbye to Love by The Carpenters

“There are no tomorrows for this heart of mine.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yarv...

YouTube video by Ella Fitzgerald - Topic My Heart Stood Still

Moo, thank you for hosting.

Token 1: My Heart Stood Still, by Ella Fitzgerald

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wila...

YouTube video by Jim Croce - Topic Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

Token 2: Jim Croce with Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzYf...

YouTube video by Ella Fitzgerald - Topic Mack The Knife (Live At Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, 1960)

Token 1: On the Good Ship Murder, Jack might sing this song about a killer:

Ella Fitzgerald’s Mack The Knife:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0mX...

My pleasure. Very glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for letting me know, Matt.

Thanks so much for hosting and giving me the opportunity to chose it.

YouTube video by jcartersongs Hi Ho Silver Lining JEFF BECK [Music video]

Token 2: Hi Ho Silver Lining by Jeff Beck

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uYO...

YouTube video by Ella Fitzgerald - Topic Lover's Gold

Token 1: Ella Fitzgerald with Lover’s Gold

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lUr...

It was the greatest ever solo piano album of its time - 1 million copies sold, it’s believed.

It wasn’t planned; it’s from a bootleg copy of a concert from a fan who’d recorded it.

Also, without an audience - among 4 of the first time recordings - is Caravan on The Greatest Garner, also great.

YouTube video by Sonny Rollins - Topic The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

Token 2: Sonny Rollins, The Most Beautiful Girl In the World, which always exhilarates me

www.youtube.com/watch?v=01yH...

YouTube video by 54music2 (request only uploads) Erroll Garner - Concert By The Sea (1956) 1/3

Token 1: Erroll Garner, I’ll Remember April, the opening to Concert By The Sea, my favourite instrumental album:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dc0...

Thanks for hosting Moo. It was fun, as always.

So many great lines! I also love:

“The words I’ll love you till the day I die,
The self-deception that believes the lie …”

YouTube video by Barbra Streisand - Topic Down With Love

Token 2: Barbra Streisand’s jazzy version of Down With Love

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phv-...

YouTube video by Ella Fitzgerald - Topic I Wish I Were In Love Again

Token 1: Ella Fitzgerald’s I Wish I Were In Love Again, beginning:

“You don’t know that I felt good
When we up and parted …”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGmW...

Ha!

YouTube video by Nat King Cole Nat King Cole - "Sweet Lorraine"

What a great idea to sweeten us all up, Michael.

Token 2: Here’s Nat King Cole singing Sweet Lorraine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ-B...

YouTube video by Ella Fitzgerald - Topic Sweet And Lovely

Token 1: Ella Fitzgerald with Sweet and Lovely

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmAR...

YouTube video by Ella Fitzgerald - Topic With A Song In My Heart

I’m glad movies bring you pleasure, Still Honest.

Because I love catching up on classic feelgood music I’ve chosen:

Token 2: Ella Fitzgerald singing With A Song in my Heart

"But I always knew
I would live life through
With a song in my heart for you.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cf3...

YouTube video by tommy194070 JOHNNY MATHIS - WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL 1957

Token 1: Johnny Mathis, Wonderful, Wonderful.

Mum and I shared a love of Johnny Mathis’s music and this was one of her favourites:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7wr...

Oh, I’ve not heard that. I’ll listen some day, thanks

Thank you. I heard this as a child on my mum’s Shirley Bassey record, If You Go Away being the English version

YouTube video by Michael C. I've Got You Under My Skin - Ella Fitzgerald

Token 2: I’ve Got You Under My Skin by Ella Fitzgerald

“I tried so not to give in …”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TG7...

YouTube video by RoyalChoralSoc ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY: In the Bleak Midwinter – words Christina Rossetti, music Gustav Holst

Token 1: In the Bleak Midwinter, possibly my favourite carol

“What can I give him,
Poor as I am?”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHHl...

YouTube video by Ella Fitzgerald - Topic Boy Wanted

Token 2: Ella Fitzgerald, Boy Wanted, from the Gershwin Songbook

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBq1...

YouTube video by professorenol The Tourists - I Only Want To Be With You (ToTPs 1979)

Token 1: The Tourists, I Only Want To Be With You

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV99...

YouTube video by WhatsOnStage Anything Goes 2021 revival | Show clips with Sutton Foster, Robert Lindsay and more

Token 2 Anything Goes by Sutton Foster and the cast at the Barbican, and later in Manchester, which loved seeing with friends - and the film of this performance

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKFU...

YouTube video by Ella Fitzgerald - Topic Mack The Knife (Live At Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, 1960)

Token 1: Ella Fitzgerald with the Paul Smith trio live in Berlin in 1960, her iconic improvisation when she forgets the words.

Unfazed, she laughs and imitates Louis Armstrong, delighting both the crowd then and me listening now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0mX...

Me too!