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DATE=3-11-01
TITLE=PEOPLE IN AMERICA #1812 - ELLA FITZGERALD
BYLINE=NANCY STEINBACH
Anncr:
Now, the voa special english program, people in america. Today, shirley griffith and steve ember tell about jazz singer, ella fitzgerald. She was known as America's first lady of song.
((cut 1: how high the moon))
Voice one:
The year was nineteen-thirty-three. The place was new york city. Ella fitzgerald was sixteen years old. She had entered a (1)competition at the apollo theater in (2)harlem. She was going to dance. But she had just watched two dancers perform. They were better dancers than she.
So, instead of dancing, she sang a song called "judy." people watching the competition urged her to sing another song. She did. She won first prize - twenty-five dollars.
That competition at the apollo theater changed ella fitzgerald's life forever. Band leader chick webb was watching the competition. He hired ella to sing with his band. He taught her about singing in public. He even showed her what kind of clothes to wear. In three years, she had her first hit (3)record, "a-tisket-a-tasket":
((cut 2: a-tisket-a-tasket))
Voice two:
Ella fitzgerald was born in the southern city of newport news, virginia in nineteen-seventeen. Her father left soon after her birth. Her mother took ella and moved to new york city. Ella's mother died when ella was fifteen years old. The next year, ella started singing with chick webb's band. She stayed with chick webb until he died in nineteen-thirty-nine. Ella kept his band together after he died until world war two started. Then most of the band (4)members joined the armed forces. While she was with the band, ella recorded almost one-hundred-fifty songs.
Voice one:
Ella fitzgerald was greatly influenced by the (5)experimental music of charlie (6)parker and (7)dizzy gillespie. It was called be-bop. She used be-bop (8)rhythms in her singing. In nineteen-forty-five, she recorded the song "flying home," using the be-bop method known as 'scat'. In scat, the singer's voice sounds like another (9)instrument in the (10)orchestra. (11)critics say it was the most (12)influential jazz record of the time.
((cut 3: flying home))
Voice two:
In nineteen-forty-nine, jazz musician (13)norman granz invited her to join his band. It was with his band in berlin, germany in nineteen-sixty that ella sang a famous song in a very different way. A man asked her if she knew the song "mack the knife." ella said she had heard it a few times but the band did not have the music for it. She said she would try to sing it anyway. This recording shows how she continued to sing "mack the knife" when she did not remember the words. The people listening loved it.
((cut 4: mack the knife))
Voice one:
Norman granz later became her (14)manager. He started a new recording company just for her. It was his idea for ella to record the now famous (15)series of record albums called the 'songbooks'. On each record, she sang works of a different songwriter. She recorded songbooks of the music of cole porter, irving berlin, duke ellington, jerome kern, johnny mercer and harold arlen. Critics say the best songbook is ella singing the songs of george and ira gershwin. Ira gershwin reportedly said, "i never knew how good our songs were until i heard ella fitzgerald sing them. Here, she sings the gershwin song, "i got rhythm":
((cut 5: i got rhythm))
Voice two:
Ella fitzgerald also appeared in movies and on (16)television. She became popular internationally. She performed in concerts around the world sometimes forty weeks a year. She also recorded for different record companies. In the nineteen-sixties, she began to sing more modern songs such as those written by the (17)beatles and burt bacharach. But she was not very successful with that kind of (18)popular music. She returned to jazz in nineteen-seventy-three, again with norman granz. She also began (19)performing with (20)symphony (21)orchestras.
Voice one:
Ella fitzgerald was married two times. Both marriages ended in divorce. She raised three children who were not her own.
Ella lived quietly in beverly hills, california. Throughout her life she was a very (22)private person. She wanted to be known only for her music. Her friends included members of the duke ellington band, count basie's band, and singers like sarah vaughn and peggy lee.
Ella fitzgerald began to have health problems during the nineteen-seventies. She had the disease (23)diabetes which caused problems with her eyes. She had a heart operation in nineteen-eighty-six. In nineteen-ninety-three, the effects of diabetes led to operations to remove both her legs. She died june fifteenth, nineteen-ninety-six.
Voice two:
People around the world loved ella fitgerald's joyful singing. Critics said she had raised the american popular song to the level of art. She won a great many awards. She received the national medal of the arts and a kennedy center honor for lifetime work. The university of maryland named a performing arts center for her.
Ella fitzgerald's wonderful voice lives on in her two-hundred-fifty (24)albums. Thirteen times she won grammy awards given each year for the best recordings. Her last (25)grammy was for the nineteen-ninety record: "all that jazz":
((cut 6: something from all that jazz))
Anncr:
This special english program was written by nancy steinbach. The announcers were shirley griffith and steve ember. I'm sarah long. Listen again next week for another people in america program on the voice of america.
(1) competition[ kCmpi5tiFEn ]n.競爭, 競賽
(2) harle[hB:l]n.麻的纖維, 羽上的細毛
(3) record[ 5rekC:d ]n.履歷, 檔案, 訴狀, 紀錄, 唱片vt.記錄, 標明, 將...錄音vi.錄音,
(4) member[ 5membE ]n.成員, 會員, 議員, (人或動, 植物的)一部分, [語]子句, 成分,
(5) experimental[ eks7peri5mentl ]adj.實驗的, 根據(jù)實驗的
(6) parker停放車輛的人
(7) dizzy[ 5dizi ]adj.(指人)暈眩的, 昏亂的, (指地點, 情況)使人暈眩的
(8) rhythm[ 5riTEm, 5riWEm ]n.節(jié)奏, 韻律
(9) instrument[ 5instrumEnt ]n.工具, 手段, 器械, 器具, 手段
(10) orchestra[ 5C:kistrE, -kes- ]n.管弦樂隊, 樂隊演奏處
(11) critic[ 5kritik ]n.批評家, 評論家, 吹毛求疵者
(12) influential[ 7influ5enFEl ]adj.有影響的, 有勢力的
(13) Norman[ 5nC:mEn ]n.法國諾曼第人adj.諾曼第的, 諾曼第人[語]的
(14) manager[ 5mAnidVE ]n.經(jīng)理, 管理人員, 管理器
(15) series[ 5siEri:z ]n.連續(xù), 系列, 叢書, 級數(shù)
(16) [ 5teliviVEn ]n.電視, 電視機, 電機學, 電視廣播事業(yè)television
(17) Beatles[ 5bi:tlz ]n.披頭士(甲殼蟲)合唱隊
(18) popular[ 5pCpjulE ]adj.通俗的, 流行的, 受歡迎的
(19) perform[ pE5fC:m ]vt.履行, 執(zhí)行, 表演, 演出v.完成任務
(20) symphony[ 5simfEni ]n.交響樂, 交響曲
(21) orchestra[ 5C:kistrE, -kes- ]n.管弦樂隊, 樂隊演奏處
(22) private[ 5praivit ]adj.私人的, 私有的, 私營的, 秘密的n.士兵
(23) diabetes[ 7daiE5bi:ti:z, -ti:s ]n.[醫(yī)] 糖尿病, 多尿癥
(24) album[ 5AlbEm ]n.集郵本, 照相簿, 簽名紀念冊
(25) Grammy[`^rAmI]n.格萊美獎(美國鍍金唱片獎，一年一度地獎勵錄音工業(yè)中有特別 成就的獎，如獎給灌制唱片方面成績卓著者的獎)
DATE=3-11-01
TITLE=PEOPLE IN AMERICA #1812 - ELLA FITZGERALD
BYLINE=NANCY STEINBACH
Anncr:
Now, the voa special english program, people in america. Today, shirley griffith and steve ember tell about jazz singer, ella fitzgerald. She was known as America's first lady of song.
((cut 1: how high the moon))
Voice one:
The year was nineteen-thirty-three. The place was new york city. Ella fitzgerald was sixteen years old. She had entered a (1)competition at the apollo theater in (2)harlem. She was going to dance. But she had just watched two dancers perform. They were better dancers than she.
So, instead of dancing, she sang a song called "judy." people watching the competition urged her to sing another song. She did. She won first prize - twenty-five dollars.
That competition at the apollo theater changed ella fitzgerald's life forever. Band leader chick webb was watching the competition. He hired ella to sing with his band. He taught her about singing in public. He even showed her what kind of clothes to wear. In three years, she had her first hit (3)record, "a-tisket-a-tasket":
((cut 2: a-tisket-a-tasket))
Voice two:
Ella fitzgerald was born in the southern city of newport news, virginia in nineteen-seventeen. Her father left soon after her birth. Her mother took ella and moved to new york city. Ella's mother died when ella was fifteen years old. The next year, ella started singing with chick webb's band. She stayed with chick webb until he died in nineteen-thirty-nine. Ella kept his band together after he died until world war two started. Then most of the band (4)members joined the armed forces. While she was with the band, ella recorded almost one-hundred-fifty songs.
Voice one:
Ella fitzgerald was greatly influenced by the (5)experimental music of charlie (6)parker and (7)dizzy gillespie. It was called be-bop. She used be-bop (8)rhythms in her singing. In nineteen-forty-five, she recorded the song "flying home," using the be-bop method known as 'scat'. In scat, the singer's voice sounds like another (9)instrument in the (10)orchestra. (11)critics say it was the most (12)influential jazz record of the time.
((cut 3: flying home))
Voice two:
In nineteen-forty-nine, jazz musician (13)norman granz invited her to join his band. It was with his band in berlin, germany in nineteen-sixty that ella sang a famous song in a very different way. A man asked her if she knew the song "mack the knife." ella said she had heard it a few times but the band did not have the music for it. She said she would try to sing it anyway. This recording shows how she continued to sing "mack the knife" when she did not remember the words. The people listening loved it.
((cut 4: mack the knife))
Voice one:
Norman granz later became her (14)manager. He started a new recording company just for her. It was his idea for ella to record the now famous (15)series of record albums called the 'songbooks'. On each record, she sang works of a different songwriter. She recorded songbooks of the music of cole porter, irving berlin, duke ellington, jerome kern, johnny mercer and harold arlen. Critics say the best songbook is ella singing the songs of george and ira gershwin. Ira gershwin reportedly said, "i never knew how good our songs were until i heard ella fitzgerald sing them. Here, she sings the gershwin song, "i got rhythm":
((cut 5: i got rhythm))
Voice two:
Ella fitzgerald also appeared in movies and on (16)television. She became popular internationally. She performed in concerts around the world sometimes forty weeks a year. She also recorded for different record companies. In the nineteen-sixties, she began to sing more modern songs such as those written by the (17)beatles and burt bacharach. But she was not very successful with that kind of (18)popular music. She returned to jazz in nineteen-seventy-three, again with norman granz. She also began (19)performing with (20)symphony (21)orchestras.
Voice one:
Ella fitzgerald was married two times. Both marriages ended in divorce. She raised three children who were not her own.
Ella lived quietly in beverly hills, california. Throughout her life she was a very (22)private person. She wanted to be known only for her music. Her friends included members of the duke ellington band, count basie's band, and singers like sarah vaughn and peggy lee.
Ella fitzgerald began to have health problems during the nineteen-seventies. She had the disease (23)diabetes which caused problems with her eyes. She had a heart operation in nineteen-eighty-six. In nineteen-ninety-three, the effects of diabetes led to operations to remove both her legs. She died june fifteenth, nineteen-ninety-six.
Voice two:
People around the world loved ella fitgerald's joyful singing. Critics said she had raised the american popular song to the level of art. She won a great many awards. She received the national medal of the arts and a kennedy center honor for lifetime work. The university of maryland named a performing arts center for her.
Ella fitzgerald's wonderful voice lives on in her two-hundred-fifty (24)albums. Thirteen times she won grammy awards given each year for the best recordings. Her last (25)grammy was for the nineteen-ninety record: "all that jazz":
((cut 6: something from all that jazz))
Anncr:
This special english program was written by nancy steinbach. The announcers were shirley griffith and steve ember. I'm sarah long. Listen again next week for another people in america program on the voice of america.
(1) competition[ kCmpi5tiFEn ]n.競爭, 競賽
(2) harle[hB:l]n.麻的纖維, 羽上的細毛
(3) record[ 5rekC:d ]n.履歷, 檔案, 訴狀, 紀錄, 唱片vt.記錄, 標明, 將...錄音vi.錄音,
(4) member[ 5membE ]n.成員, 會員, 議員, (人或動, 植物的)一部分, [語]子句, 成分,
(5) experimental[ eks7peri5mentl ]adj.實驗的, 根據(jù)實驗的
(6) parker停放車輛的人
(7) dizzy[ 5dizi ]adj.(指人)暈眩的, 昏亂的, (指地點, 情況)使人暈眩的
(8) rhythm[ 5riTEm, 5riWEm ]n.節(jié)奏, 韻律
(9) instrument[ 5instrumEnt ]n.工具, 手段, 器械, 器具, 手段
(10) orchestra[ 5C:kistrE, -kes- ]n.管弦樂隊, 樂隊演奏處
(11) critic[ 5kritik ]n.批評家, 評論家, 吹毛求疵者
(12) influential[ 7influ5enFEl ]adj.有影響的, 有勢力的
(13) Norman[ 5nC:mEn ]n.法國諾曼第人adj.諾曼第的, 諾曼第人[語]的
(14) manager[ 5mAnidVE ]n.經(jīng)理, 管理人員, 管理器
(15) series[ 5siEri:z ]n.連續(xù), 系列, 叢書, 級數(shù)
(16) [ 5teliviVEn ]n.電視, 電視機, 電機學, 電視廣播事業(yè)television
(17) Beatles[ 5bi:tlz ]n.披頭士(甲殼蟲)合唱隊
(18) popular[ 5pCpjulE ]adj.通俗的, 流行的, 受歡迎的
(19) perform[ pE5fC:m ]vt.履行, 執(zhí)行, 表演, 演出v.完成任務
(20) symphony[ 5simfEni ]n.交響樂, 交響曲
(21) orchestra[ 5C:kistrE, -kes- ]n.管弦樂隊, 樂隊演奏處
(22) private[ 5praivit ]adj.私人的, 私有的, 私營的, 秘密的n.士兵
(23) diabetes[ 7daiE5bi:ti:z, -ti:s ]n.[醫(yī)] 糖尿病, 多尿癥
(24) album[ 5AlbEm ]n.集郵本, 照相簿, 簽名紀念冊
(25) Grammy[`^rAmI]n.格萊美獎(美國鍍金唱片獎，一年一度地獎勵錄音工業(yè)中有特別 成就的獎，如獎給灌制唱片方面成績卓著者的獎)