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Token 1: Ella Fitzgerald A Ship Without A Sail, a Rodgers and Hart rarity “All alone, all at sea …” and “I’m on the ocean, Guided by just A lonely heart” www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRB0...

Token 2 Cry Me A River, by Julie London www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCGN...

Token 1, Ella Fitzgerald’s superb scat begins The Duke Ellington Songbook in Rockin’ in Rhythm www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBbo...

Token 2: Ella Fitzgerald’s incomparable Let’s Face The Music and Dance www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnXn...

Token 1: Don’t Leave Me This Way, The Communards with Sarah Jane Morris It always got me dancing back in my student days, and still can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RHB...

Today’s poem is called ‘Please Bear in Mind’.

Token 2: Runaway, Del Shannon “I’m a walkin’ in the rain …” www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S13...

Token 1: This Could Be The Start of Something Big, by Ella Fitzgerald. “You’re walking along a street …” www.youtube.com/watch?v=57AL...

Token 2: Johnny Mathis, Misty (words by Johnny Burke, music by Erroll Garner) “Walk my way And a thousand violins begin to play ….” www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkC9...

Token 1: Ella Fitzgerald, live in Rome, These Foolish Things “A tinkling piano in the next apartment, Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant, A fairground’s painted swings, These foolish things remind me of you” www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoxR...

Token 2: Ella Fitzgerald sings Blues in the Night www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMK4...

Token 1: Ella Fitzgerald singing I Got Rhythm from the Gershwin Songbook. Ira Gershwin said “I never knew how good our songs were, until Ella sang them.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYRt...

Token 2: It’s A Lovely Day Today by Ella Fitzgerald, a song I nearly always sing on bright sunny day www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Yw...

Token 1: Mr Blue Sky by ELO “Sun is shining in the sky …” www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQUl...

Token 2: Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen Mama, just killed a man Put a gun against his head Pulled my trigger now he’s dead www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQD-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9r...

Sorry about the typo, it should be AN arrow

Token 2: Set Fire to the Rain Adele, live at the Albert Hall www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri7-...

Token 1: That Old Black Magic by Ella Fitzgerald, live in Rome I should stay away But what can I do? I hear your name, And I’m aflame, Aflame with such a burning desire, That only a kiss can put out the fire www.youtube.com/watch?v=caCh...

Token 1: Sonny Rollins’ iconic The Most Beautiful Girl in the World www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn6t...

Token 2: Ella Fitzgerald Anything Goes “The world has gone mad today, And good’s bad today, And black’s white today, And day’s night today…” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqww...

Token 1: It’s A Lovely Day Today by Ella Fitzgerald, such a happy song it always makes me smile www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Yw...

Token 2: Manic Monday by the Bangles, a song I’m enjoying performing with my friends in our choir. “Wish it were Sunday, Cos that’s my fun day, My I don’t have to run day, It’s just another manic Monday.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4mD...

Token 1, Ella Fitzgerald’s superb rendition of Blue Skies, from the Irving Berlin songbook www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB-x...

Token 2: Ella Fitzgerald live with the Tee Carson trio in Germany, with a striking version of Summertime www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2bi...

Token 1: Ella Fitzgerald’s gorgeous rendition of Autumn in New York. She’s singing it with Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson accompanies them on piano. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wfx...

Token 1: Frank Sinatra’s Witchcraft. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFmN...

Token 2: Ella Fitzgerald’s That Old Black Magic, from my favourite live concert: Ella In Rome www.youtube.com/watch?v=caCh...

Token 1: Ella Fitzgerald’s superb Someone to Watch Over Me “Though he may not be the man some Girls think of as handsome, To my heart he carries the key” Just covered on BBC Radio 4’s Soul Music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kh4...

Token 2: Amy Winehouse Back to Black “Me and my head high. And my tears dry, Get on without my guy” www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJAf...

Token 1: From my favourite live album, Ella in Rome: I Loves You Porgy, from Porgy and Bess, beautifully sung by Ella Fitzgerald live accompanied by Lou Levy in 1958 at the Teatro Sistina. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c01_...

Token 2: The Beatles I Should Have Known Better www.youtube.com/watch?v=5en2...

Token 1: Anything Goes, sung by Ella Fitzgerald, written by Cole Porter “Good authors too, who once knew better words, Now only use four-letter words Writing prose. Anything Goes.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqww...

Token 2: Your Song, by Elton John (and Bernie Taupin, who wrote the lyrics aged 18) “If I was a sculptor, but then again no, Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show...” www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlPl...

Purple reigns.👋🎸

Token 1: Ella Fitzgerald’s Johnny One Note, from The Rodgers and Hart songbook: “Cats and dogs stopped yapping, Lions in the zoo all were jealous of Johnny’s big trill…” www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H-9...

Token 2: The Bare Necessities, sung by Phil Harris in The Jungle book, “The bees are buzzing in the trees …” www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6e3...

Token 2: My Resistance is Low, by Hoagy Carmichael “And I’m going overboard with a capital O.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9wU...

Token 1: Ella Fitzgerald’s version of Rodgers and Hart’s I Could Write A Book, from one of her most sublime songbooks. “A B C D E F G, I never learned to spell, at least not well,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1b7...

2/2 It's a topic week, and Kitty's topic is letters of the alphabet. Token 1 to start you off - Modern Jazz Quartet: Blues in C minor What will you add with your two tokens? And will someone oust Kitty from her inappropriately small cardboard box by guessing her closing token? ALL replies here👇

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