ELLA MAE MORSE MISTER FIVE BY FIVE 1942

ELLA MAE MORSE MR FIVE BY FIVE 1942, VOCAL WITH FREDDIE SLACK .

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• ELLA
• MAE
• MORSE
• FREDDIE
• SLACK
• BOOGIE
• WOOGIE

[hookalakah]

Elvis Presley to Ella Mae Morse: "Lady, you taught me how to sing."

Sammy Davis, Jr. to Ella Mae Morse: "I thought you were one of us."

[Joans20thCentury]

Hi, great comment .

[balboabill]

Fantastic! Thanks for posting this wonderful clip.

[Joans20thCentury]

Hi, many thanks for your comment

[d820m]

@hookalakah Ella Mae to Sammy Davis Jr. : But I AM one of you!!!!!!

[BigSleepyOx]

My favorite Elle Mae Morse song! :)

Was a big hit, and actually got to #1 on the R&B chart (called the "Harlem Hit Parade" chart back then) in 1942, which was very rare for white singers.

She again topped the R&B chart in 1943 with "Shoo Shoo Baby".

I think Bing Crosby ("White Christmas") and Dick Haymes ("You'll Never Know") were the only other white artists to have #1 songs on the R&B chart in all of the 1940's.

Maybe that's pertinent info wrt the "race" discussion in previous comments. ;)

[59Napoli]

What a babe! they dont make em like that nowadays

[d820m]

The great shouter Jimmy Rushing was known as Mr. Five by Five.....

[hep2jive]

to all those people like MrRJDB1969 and budgienation, just shut the hell up and listen to the damn song.

[theoriginalbadbob]

I WAS BORN IN 1942!

[MrRJDB1969]

@8House : Things are just what they are. If Sammy Davis Jr. said what he said , as far as Ella , " sounding like one of us " or whatever, who really cares anymore. When I hear someone complaining about "racism" , hell , I just what to go puke somewhere, really. With that said though, racism has always existed, exists today, & will continue to exist tomorrow and it comes in EVERY single nationality or race and that's just how it is . I think music brings us all together though, which is good.

[budgienation]

@MrRJDB1969 Well observed. I just found out about Ella Mae Morse. She's phenomenal. Better than Patty, LaVerne or Maxine, Betty Hutton, Vera Lynn, The Modernaires, The Pied Pipers, aw hell, the list goes on but she's tops. That voice could raise the dead and turn goats milk into gasoline (110 octane, aviation fuel, natch) The only one who comes close is Billie Holiday....