Listen to a Voice - and other thoughts...

Who is she? Not Sara Vaugn.

Dinah Washington - - Ella - -

Late 40s - it's that song about the paper moon - then Mona Lisa -
never heard a woman do that song before. The nat King Cole tune.

No one could do this music today. The voices and the strings - the attitude is lost.

When do you give up trying -
On to something else.

When do you decide if it's worth crying about?

Is anything worth shedding tears?

Then that Charlie Chaplain song; Smile
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The Jazz Ballad. Usually about love. Rarely political - but when so, savagely tough minded - the great lyric writers and songs of that era - - -

Later, so much of it became charicature and cliche -

But at the brassy dawn of the Big Band Jazz Ballad it was nothing but hip.

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There are truths that, though intensely significant moment by moment to moment, are only tacitly acknowledged by the crowd.

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So he said, " Are you telling me that people from my country don't know anything about failed empires?"