retro week! - they can't take that away from me

so, i'm going to lay down and say, point blank, ella fitzgerald is the best female voice to ever grace listeners' ears. no, don't bother arguing. i'm right.

okay, you can argue, but i'm pretty firm in this belief.

ella fitzgerald is...awesome. amazing. alluring. fascinating. bewitching. i absolutely cannot resist her songs. i have dozens of them littering my various ipods, playlists, mix-cds, and computers. i never skip past them when they pop up, no matter what mood i'm in or the genre i'm hooked on for the moment.

ella rocks. i adore her.

it's hard to pick a song of hers to highlight, because honestly, they're all worth a listen. but i'm going to go for they can't take that away from me, which just so happens to feature another musical genius, louis armstrong. GAH! put the two of them together, and you've got MUSICAL MAGIC.

the way you wear your hat
the way you sip your tea
the memory of all that
no, no, they can't take that away from me

the way your smile just beams
the way you sing off key
the way you haunt my dreams
no, no they can't take that away from me

we may never, never meet again,

on that bumpy road to love
still i'll always, always keep the memory of:

the way you hold your knife
the way we danced 'till three
the way you changed my life
no, no, they can't take that away from me

(mp3) they can't take that away from me by ella fitzgerald & louis armstrong (via town full of losers)

and, because, like i said, it's hard to pick just one, go ahead and enjoy ella singing i get a kick out of you: