Cat Quintet: Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off

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Shmutzy Cat: “Hey, looky thar.”
Orange Cat: “She’s in the wrong neighborhood.”
Arab Cats in full Berkah (Arab dress) and Veils.
Shmutzy Cat: “they’re picking up their kids at the Israeli Public School.”
Orange Cat: “Yeah, but usually around here they don’t cover their mouths.”
Shmutzy Cat: “If they don’t like it here there’s plenty of other countries they can live in.” “They are Real Estate |Hogs.”
Orange Cat: “Hogs… maybe that’s why they cover up their faces!”

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Shmutzy Cat: “What do you mean?”
Orange Cat: “I mean – they’re not cats at all, but hogs!”
Shmutzy Cat: “What?”
Orange Cat: “Well, they could be aliens that are in disguise.”
Shmutzy Cat: “What have you been eating lately?”
Orange Cat: “Oh, you.”
Shmutzy Cat: “You are what you eat.”
Orange Cat: “hum…” Orange Cat smiles “You say Potato and I say Potahto.”

Let_s Call the Whole Thing Off by_ Louis Armstrong _ Ella Fitzgerald

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Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin; Music by George GershwinThings have come to a pretty pass♫
Our romance is growing flat, ♫
For you like this and the other♫
While I go for this and that, ♫Goodness knows what the end will be♫
Oh I don’t know where I’m at♫
It looks as if we two will never be one♫
Something must be done: ♫You say either and I say either, ♫
You say neither and I say neither♫
Either, either Neither, neither♫
Let’s call the whole thing off. ♫
You like potato and I like potahto♫
You like tomato and I like tomahto♫
Potato, potahto, Tomato, tomahto. ♫
Let’s call the whole thing off♫
But oh, if we call the whole thing off, then we must part♫
And oh, if we ever part, then that might break my heart♫
So if you like pyjamas and I like pyjahmas, ♫
I’ll wear pyjamas and give up pyajahmas♫
For we know we need each other so we♫
Better call the whole thing off♫
Let’s call the whole thing off. ♫
You say laughter and I say larfter♫
You say after and I say arfter♫
Laughter, larfter after arfter♫
Let’s call the whole thing off, ♫
You like vanilla and I like vanilla♫
You saspiralla, and I saspirella♫
Vanilla vanella chocolate strawberry♫
Let’s call the whole thing off♫
But oh if we call the whole thing of then we must part♫
And oh, if we ever part, then that might break my heart♫
So if you go for oysters and I go for ersters♫
I’ll order oysters and cancel the ersters♫
For we know we need each other so we♫
Better call the calling off off, ♫
Let’s call the whole thing off. ♫
I say father, and you say pater, ♫
I saw mother and you say mater♫
Pater, mater Uncle, auntie♫
Let’s call the whole thing off. ♫
I like bananas and you like banahnahs♫
I say Havana and I get Havahnah♫
Bananas, banahnahs Havana, Havahnah♫
Go your way, I’ll go mine♫
So if I go for scallops and you go for lobsters, ♫
So all right no contest we’ll order lobster♫
For we know we need each other so we♫
Better call the calling off off, ♫
Let’s call the whole thing off. ♫
Gershwin, George & Ira. “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off.” George and Ira Gershwin Songbook, disc 10. [From the Film: “Shall We Dance”, 1936.]

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong collaborations

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Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

Wikipedia-logo Ella Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an African-American jazz vocalist often referred to by honorific nicknames such as the “First Lady of Song” and the “Queen of Jazz”. “Lady Ella” attracted notoriety for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, lyrical phrasing, and vocal intonation; her instrument-like improvisational ability with her voice, particularly in her scat singing, proved popular with many audiences. In the 1950s, the depth and scope of her many releases had already attracted major attention. Many critics of the time regarded her as one of the best female vocalists still making music.

Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971) was an African-American jazz singer and trumpeter as well as composer who ended up being one of the most pivotal and influential figures in not just jazz-related styles but across popular music. His career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and different eras both musically and also in terms of U.S. culture. Coming to prominence first as an inventive player, Armstrong attracted notice for shifting the focus in his records from collective improvisations to turn-by-turn solo performances. Like Fitzgerald, Armstrong picked up popular nicknames, in his case “Pops” and “Satchmo”, that stuck, and critics praised him by the 1950s as a sort of elder statesman of popular music.

Fitzgerald appeared in many duets in the Forties, appearing on recordings with, among others, The Ink Spots, Louis Jordan and Louis Armstrong as well as a host of instrumentalists from the Jazz At The Philharmonic troupe.[3] The idea of entire duet album came about from Verve’s Norman Granz who had the idea to pair Fitzgerald and Armstrong.[3] Granz also persuaded Armstrong to forsake his own trad jazz group and embrace the modern sound of Oscar Peterson and composers such as Porter and Berlin. Fitzgerald allowed Louis to choose the keys in which to sing the repertoire and together they recorded the first of three albums, Ella and Louis.[3]

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