Ella Fitzgerald - "Summertime" (TV Special 1968)

Ella Fitzgerald sings "Summertime" (from "Porgy and Bess" - George and Ira Gershwin) in a TV Special from 1968.
(From Globo TV, Brazil).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ella
• fitzgerald
• summertime
• porgy
• and
• bess
• george
• ira
• gershwin
• jazz

[Rexicano]

These days she would never get a contract;

you have to look and act like a sex worker to get a gig.

The voice is the last thing anyone cares about now.

People are cheated now out of the best artists.

[hadinothady]

5 people lives in Antarctica.

[Nevermore1953]

There is always someone who sets the standard. And Ella was one of those people! She is simply AMAZING!

[Martyemar]

I'm not going to make any comparisons with other singers, nor offer conjecture on what her popularity would be in this day and age. What I can say is that THIS woman singing THIS song is purely magical!

[vkremona]

amazing.......

[LexiHeartDesign]

@Rexicano You're right in that sex is everywhere and it's used to sell talentless pretty faces, but I don't think we're cheated out of anything, I've got too many brilliant singers in my iTunes to even cope with, it's just a question of looking harder. And as others pointed out, the are quite a lot of great singers that are mainstream, and not whores. So lets be positive :)

[sabelsab]

La classe, du grand Art !

[Alexdurrant7]

@Rexicano Since when has 'it's not true in all cases' meant 'it's not true in any case'? The fact that Adele is famous purely because of her singing voice does not mean that all singers are famous purely for their singing voices, and not for other qualities, like sex appeal.

[Rexicano]

@Alexdurrant7

Oh, gee gosh...you're right...I was sooooo wrong. Sex is never used to sell girl singers. Usually they are just presented as Nuns and it's really only the rare occasion that they are tarted up. uh huh.

[Alexdurrant7]

@Rexicano Why be so rude? The other user pointed out an example of a current artist who doesn't look like a sex worker. There's no need to throw it back in their face. To Adele I would also add Amy Winehouse, Duffy, Jill Scott and Joss Stone as other artists that became famous due to their voices and not sex appeal. Besides, Lady Gaga's duet with Tony Bennett shows she really can sing, and I'm not sure anyone would say she's good looking enough to have got where she is through sex appeal.

[manonkubler]

ANGELICAL. PODEROSA. UNICA. MANON KUBLER