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  • "and Ima ne-a-lo a music love. I like good music."

    She is sooo cute. And beastly on the mic. This is soooo sick. I'd double the likes already here if I could.

  • this woman was a goddess

  • love this song, love this version, but did it REALLY have to take two sodding minuites to start the danm thing??

  • @Thecabbageful she was making a point tryin to be funny shuttup dont complain nd listen to the magic :)

  • Cry your heart out, Lady GaGa. They don't come any better than Ella. She was a true musician.

  • shes awesome but dresses like my nan

  • 30 people wake up with lil wayne - fuck this shit :)

  • This is a phenomenal woman! Her scatting is amazing!

  • R.I.P Ella Fitzgerald....You will be remembered for centuries.

  • she is so Amazing!

  • Geez, she even does country better than us white folks :-/

  • Genialna!!!

  • 2:32-2:46  SO SEXY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • "enough of that" yee ha ha

  • How the hell can anybody dislike this

  • I LOVE that woman <3

  • Mythique !

  • she's got the whole orchestra in her throat.

  • Joe Pass on guitar...

  • This is a classic song and Ella was the Queen of Scat!! LOVE this song!!!

  • I've got..., Salmonella Fitzgerald!

  • Swing and scatting needs to come back

  • Simply Awesome!!

  • Old Black Women, That's My Swag. :)

  • HYSTERICALLY AMAZING

  • 30 ppl ddnt like this. They LOVED it.

  • Who could possibly dislike someone this fantastic! Ella....I'm speechless!

  • going to play this for my school concert :) Love this just as good as the original

  • reminds me of esperanza spalding ^^

  • Brilliant

  • 20 years old. My dad always gets mad when I listen to Ella because it was before my time. But I understand what good music is.

  • Ella will forever be an inspiration to me musically. I wish we had singers that aspired nearly half as close to what she has done. Amazing woman. Even in her older age... she rocks.

  • only ella can scat some country western

  • more music needs 1080p on youtube to blow your mind.

    she only needs 240p. and some magnificent.

  • Pure Talent.

  • kind a sad they dont make music like this anymore

  • Wonderful. Love. Wonderful.

  • Of course Ella Fitzgerald can scat, lol!

  • Je veux la même grand-mère !!! :)

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  • 30 people ain't got that swing.

  • @Khalin2011

    30 people have been legally pronounced dead.

  • 30 people were clearly deaf :/

  • Of the famous words of the Netflix CEO prior to major drop in shares from result of recent price hike. I say to the 30 dislikes, you are inconsequential!

  • Anyone else here old enough to be thinking of Ziploc commercials, too?

  • Here is your one and only lesson in scatting

  • Dammit ! I'm 46 years late !

  • HOT DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

  • This is a true vocalist... Pure and simple.

  • SHE REALLY MAKES HER VOICE INTO AN INSTRUMENT!! WOW!!! AND SHE HAS PERFECT PITCH! SIMPLY AMAZING!!

  • You Said It Ella ~ It Don't Mean Nothin...... This is how you sing to all the Britneys, Justins, Christinas yada yada.... This is a TRU artist.. :o

  • i always thought she was the first person to sing this song. when i youtubed this song i found out that it was originally sung by a guy in 1943

  • God, she just looks like she'd be your average grandma here.  Then all of a sudden....HOLY SHIT SHE'S AMAZING!

  • As Duke Ellington once said, there are only two types of music. Good music and bad music.

  • Nobody will ever top the First Lady of Song, and that's not simple opinion. Look at how long her career lasted, look at how little she degenerated and/or catered. She did what she loved, at a level that is unsurpassed, and for a length of time that will likely never be beaten.

  • @ATFDoc So true. Same can be said for Sarah Vaughan who had 5 decades at the top of game with no major sign of vocal decline. Infact her voice at the end of her life was of the same standard. She passed away in 1990. Her last album was released in 1989. Its remarkable how the voice did not deteriorate. Even Sinatra's voice declined towards the end. But back on topic, there will never be another Ella. Her magic, her grace....for my money (and I know its subjective) she was the best!

  • A lot of people missed the point of what she said a the beginning. Good music is good music. Of course when she made this, certain forms of music were not created . But still. I am sure she wouldn't like the message, but I think Ella could of gotten down with the sounds if she was alive.

  • lets stat the music and here it is! 1:58

  • @yuena45 no thank you, I'll listen to the awesome build up!

  • Never assume you know everything about music or that your taste is supreme. There's no such thing as bad music. If you can't hear the good in everything, you're not listening well enough. Have faith in your fellow man. You'll never truly appreciate music if you never truly appreciate humanity. Music is not about talent, it's about human expression. Not everyone has Ella's voice. Autotune encourages human expression. Like it or not, rap/hiphop/pop is music and has positive effects on the world.

  • rappers cant do that WITH autotune...... wtf happened to music?

  • wow I never heard her before but she is AMAZING. just WOW

  • I LOVE THE FACT she looks like she's just woke up after a nap on the sofa ..... All we need is her voice and the music !!

  • REAL music....(not compared to EVERYTHING, just most of the modern crap that 'artists' release these days...)

  • wowza

    

  • This is real party music right here.

  • I came here after listening to Funkadelic and Megadeth. Why am I saying this? I don't know. I just love my broad, awesome musical taste.

  • @PanekPL Good for you! :-) I found it ridiculous when people thought that any other genre outside of jazz or classical are NOT music at all...  (not intend to generalize, but the so-called "jazz-lovers" and "classical buffs" tend to do this)

  • in jazz choir were learning to do a 4 part version of this song and all 16 of us get solos! WOOOOT! amazing video!

  • id like to see cher loyed or cherly cole or nicola roberts or any other such 'singers' take this on. there music dont mean a thing. cus it definetly doesnt have swing!!

  • Ella, you were the greatest!

  • It "Don't mean thing" to us that 29 people clicked the dislike button.

  • that's some old lady.

  • Oh God, I think im in love with a woman who is at least 60 years older than me :S

  • holy bip bip bip... thats great

  • I'm 16 and love this music but that don't mean a thing.

  • @bjarnihiram yes it does..it means everything. now go influence other people our age..19..

  • @bjarnihiram yes it does..it means everything. now go influence other people our age..im 19..

  • i did this song for black history :) last year

  • To all the new singers THAT IS HER REAL VOICE! try to use yours once in a while!

  • these days they get 'cool' 'fit' people to be singings when they are worse than a strangled cat at singing, no-one actually cares wether they are good looking or not just if they can sing

  • Unlike any other singer you could name, Fitzgerald has the most amazing asset in the very sound of her voice: it's easily one of the most beautiful and sonically perfect sounds known to man period

  • ella fitzgerald is the queen of swing

  • i want that microphone! what kind of mic is it?

  • Ill bet any of you a thousand dollars your grandmother cant do that.

  • @theatlantisrise wheres my million dollars? lol

  • Respond to this video... oops, thousand

  • No one scats like Ella Fitzgerald

  • song is made famous on Swing Kids (jazz outlawed in Nazi Germany)

  • looks like i found another video for my "favorites"

  • ... and Joe Pass on guitar

  • Herb Geller on altosax

  • обожаю.с детства..непревзойдённая!

  • 1 Love button

  • she was a musical wizard

  • Respect à vous, Madame, pour toujours .

    Merci pour le post .

  • This puts the biggest smile on my face.

  • There needs to be a love button on this video of this excellent song done by this excellent artist.

    It is too sad that modern songs don't have any swing at all and are just autotuned crap.

  • When into 'It don't mean a thing' I had to get up and start dancing!

  • Professor Fitzgerald teaches me that the types of music are: Classical, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Country & Western, and Soul Train. Thanks, Prof.

  • I saw her with a trio at the Milwaukee Performing Arts Center sometime around 1970. Then got an extra treat at a hotel-top club where she stopped in to "jam" with George Shearing. My then-wife had a great description of Ella: Her voice is an orchestra."

  • I'm 24 and I must say : TAKE THAT, AUTOTUNE !!!!!!!

  • @ZombieOwen23 You got that right. Seriously, anyone who would would even entertain the idea of using Autotune is pathetic. You can either sing or you can't. That's why jazz ends up with the likes of Ella, Sarah Vaughan and Karrin Allyson,and pop ends up with B. Spears and her ilk.

  • @ZombieOwen23 i'm 19 and i must say : I completely agree

  • @ZombieOwen23 Hehe true, 22 here ;)

  • yeeeaeh!!!

  • Ella, queen of jazz!!!

  • Who are the 28 people who disliked this??? Who in modern pop music is even remotely close to sounding this good? LOL we in America have to learn to appreciate and enjoy good music.

  • @dctrtuba1

    NOW ITS 30 WITH NO BRAIN AND HEARING FUNCTION!

  • @babybree175 hahahaha true that ;)

  • @dctrtuba1 It might've been because it took a while to get to the actual song, even IF it was a truly amazing voice, it still took a while.

  • @MrHerpdadurp Good point - maybe they closed it b4 listening.

  • LEGEND!!!!

    TO ALL SINGERS,WANNA BE SiNGErS,MUSICIANS,ETC...., PLEASE TAKE NOTES!! WE NEED TO GEt BACK IN TOUCH WITH REAL MUSIC!!!!!! pLEEEEASE!!!!!

  • I met her when I was 13 years old in Minneapolis(40 years ago).

  • Music like this is timeless. I really enjoyed this.

  • Ella teaching! lol

  • does anybody have the karaoke for this song?

  • Just Priceless! Hope I can see someone with this HUGE voice, rhythm and swing in my lifetime...

  • too good .. makes me cry when I listen to it ㅠ_ㅠ

  • "the best ear of any singer ever." - Mel Torme

  • I simply adore Ella Fitzgerald!

  • nowadays music doesn't mean a thing cuz it doesn't have the swing! just alcohol, drugs, and sex... sigh*

  • nowadays music doesn't mean a thing cuz it doesn't have the swing!

  • True talent ... You hardly see this anymore now days.

  • Rare craftmanship, by any of the participants..... Ella's from outer space here too

  • Jeez!!! Shes Rockin' the Jazz :O

  • i dont like like jazz but.... it's absolutely amazing!!! i should hear more :)

  • I LOVE YOU ELLA

  • A MUSICAL MASTERMIND... A GENIUS I TELL YOU

    I love the country&western part.. anyone knows what that music is called?! GOSH I LOVE THE MUSIC TOO <3

  • To me there are three humans who can really sing this song; Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and of course, Ella Fitsgerald.

  • Her scatting is remarkable

  • hw old is she?

  • @fxkinye old enough to scat like that

  • @fxkinye She would have been about 57 here. She died in '96 at age 79.

  • oooh she was a blessing to music

  • AMAZING!

  • Amazing!

  • You're the greatest.Happy birthday Ella!!!!!!

  • EL-Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

  • Absolutely brilliant!

    -Bruce

  • i swear, this is the thousandth time i've listened to this. it's just so... yeah...

  • awesome song <3 lady gaga or anyone of todays music can't hold a candle to her :D She looks like my 8th grade math teacher oddly O.o

  • The problem is that you aren't allowed to dislike Ella Fitzgerald. She's a legend and even at the age she was in this video she still had it. You can't hate on honorary human beings like her. You just can't. So I say all negative comments about legends like Ella shoud be deleted!...lmao.

  • commenting on the dislikes is bordering on clich'e, please stop. originality on interpretation is appreciated, much like ella's performance

  • i need more scat

  • The best version of this song..ever!

  • I wish there was more music like this....what happened? go Ella

  • I'm one of those rare people who are fans of Rock, Punk, Pop, Rap and of course Jazz. People seem to have forgotten about Jazz, they don't appreciate it anymore. Im one of those rare people who do. Thumbs up if you are too.

  • 24 people must be justin beiber fans! no taste what soever!

  • 24 people are deaf!

  • @invisibl3kid91...24 now... YOU ARE RIGHT... 24 "people don't mean a thing!"

  • i love ella.....

  • granny daisy

  • This is on my iPod, and it makes me so happy every time she says "You dig it?"

  • lovely person and the best singer ever

  • Get on down then Ella!

  • che artista...

  • She blows my mind away. I absolutly love her such a great voice and has a really good enthusiasm when she sings. Uplifts the whole crowd

  • 1974!!! WOW! that was ages ago!!!

  • "Then there's country western music. I KNOW yall know about that. [...] Alright, that's enough of that" She forgot to add the word 'shit' in there.

  • ooooooooooo my God she is sssoo perfect!!! my favoriet always!!!

  • Oh my! She's a blessing to my ears! And what a lovely personality!

  • Wow, this is what I call perfect pitch...

  • Wish I could have seen one of her performances live TT^TT

  • 2:50 to 3:28 shes sounds like a wraper!

  • @dragondan669 It's called Scat Singing and it sounds nothing like a wraper

  • @Parazator Thanks for the information about that.

  • Wouldn't she just be the most awesome grandmother EVER?!

  • EXtra ELLA!!!!

    

  • She's an musical absurd only few in world got the swing to enjoy this.

  • THIS is entertainment from the golden age ladies & gentlemen, featuring a LADY whose class, elegance & eloquence is so far beyond reproach it's not funny. This is one TALENTED LADY! How dare ANYONE compare someone like Justin Bieber to this great entertainer who, in my eyes, will ALWAYS be the first lady of jazz . . . with due respect, I'd LOVE to see Justin Bieber's attempt at scat . . . don't even begin to attempt to besmurch her flawless reputation with such a laughable comparison . . .

  • If you think Justin Beiber is better than this, you're useless. Clearly you're a piece of garbage.

  • I was like my god, yes.

    And then suddenly, 3:17, and the band plays Four Brothers, which I'm playing in my school jazz band now. Damn, great playing there.

    I feel awesome knowing all the jazz titles here.

  • @JustinBieberFanMr LOL. Whatever, Trevor.

    Each to his own.

  • Just amazing! I didn't know she had such a great personality as well :)