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Ella 100: The Songbooks

American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald smiles as she walks at the fashionable Via Veneto in Rome, April 8, 1961.

Ella Fitzgerald is turning 100 and we celebrated her stories on WQXR American Standards last April! Listen as Julian Fleisher reflects on one of Ella's most important contributions to The Great American Songbook.

For more of the First Lady of Song visit wnyc.org/ella