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Ella Fitzgerald on Vinyl
1940
America's "First Lady of Song" live from the Savoy Ballroom
This phonograph record may well be the only surviving recording of a live broadcast of jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald's short-lived radio program. The program ran on NBC radio from New York's Savoy Ballroom in the 1940s.
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The Savoy Ballroom was known as "the home of happy feet." |
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Ella Fitzgerald, born April 25, 1917, Newport News, VA; died June 15, 1996, Beverly Hills, CA |
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