Ella may not have been a "blues singer", but she sure could sing the blues (think about that :)... her renditions of "Rocks in my bed", for instance, or "Mood Indigo", are as blue as they come.
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Ella and her Famous Orchestra, 9 May 1940, in New York.
One of the few blues numbers, in title at least, that she recorded was this "Gulf Coast Blues", a "big band" arrangement of the song that Bessie Smith had already recorded on 16 February 1923 with Clarence Williams at the piano. Her Famous Orchestra was the 'old' Chick Webb orchestra that she had continued to lead after the death of Chick Webb.
GULF COAST BLUES (Clarence Williams) I've been blue all day My man's gone away He left his mama cold For another gal, I'm told I've tried to treat him kind I thought he would be mine That man I hate to lose That's why mama's got the blues The man that I love he has left me in this town The man I love has gone and left me in this town And if it keeps on snowin' I will be Gulf Coast bound Mailman passed but he didn't leave no news The mailman's passed but he didn't leave no news I tell the world he left me cryin' those Gulf Coast blues These men up north honey sure do make me tired These men up north they surely do make me tired They've got a mouth full of gimme, and a handful of much obliged
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