Ella Fitzgerald to be honored w/ a postage stamp.

[ronnykmarshall]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070109/ap_en_mu/ella_fitzgerald_stamp_5

http://www.ellafitzgerald.com/viewheadline.php?id=4120

Ella Fitzgerald stamp to debut in January ‘07

11-08-2006

Ella Fitzgerald will be immortalized near the end of January as the 30th honoree in the Postal Service's Black Heritage series.

Fitzgerald (1917-1996) was widely known as "The First Lady of Song." Her extraordinary vocal range and flexibility, combined with her gift for pitch, rhythmic sense, and flawless diction, made her a favorite of fans, songwriters and other singers. The stamp portrait, based on a photograph taken circa 1956, is by famed illustrator Paul Davis, who captured the joy and excitement that Fitzgerald brought to her music.

[Blue-Jay]

1. Cool! She deserves it.

[MonkeyFunk]

2. meh...

she was OK. No Christina Aguilera, but she was OK with the oldies tunes.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. Cool!

[Orrex]

4. LIttle known fact: She had planned to marry the Dark Lord of the Sith

But that would have made her Ella Vader.

Thank you, thank you.

In any case, this is super-cool news. Congratulations on an overdue commemoration, Ms. Fitzgerald!

[CBHagman]

5. Love it.

Look out, postal clerks, because I'm coming your way in February!

By the way, don't just by the stamp (though I think you should buy LOTS of the stamps). Get her albums on Verve, too. You will not regret it. I've got the Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Gershwin, and Rodgers & Hart songbooks, plus a few compilations (Broadway, ballads, etc.). :woohoo: