We Celebrate Black History Month Part 2 - a podcast by Frank Miller

For Part 2 of our celebration of Black History Month, I have gone back into the Big Band Bash archives and brought out a show I did on Ella Fitzgerald with Her Famous Orchestra. Ella rose to fame as the vocalist with the Chick Webb Orchestra. Chick suffered from tuberculosis of the spine and died on June 16, 1939 and his band was renamed Ella and Her Famous Orchestra with Fitzgerald taking on the role of bandleader. She recorded nearly 150 songs with Webb's orchestra between 1935 and 1942. Most of those recordings were pop songs and novelties but there were a few good recordings. We'll be listening to some of these recordings and learning about the career of the First Lady of Song, Miss Ella Fitzgerald on Part 2 of Black History month.

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