Tuesday, May 02, 2006

They Can't Take That Away from Me by Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald


Louis Armstrong sounds like a frog. I know it's probably sacrilege to say it, but I really can't stand the man's voice. I feel as though I should love 'What a Wonderful World' and 'We Have All the Time in the World', but actually they just irritate me because of Louis' bizarre 80-fags-a-day voice. But 'They Can't Take That Away From Me' comes out bottom because of Louis' random scatting and doo-be-dooing in the background. I was stuck in a retail job with an 'Ella and Louis Together' CD, and this song used to force me to abandon the customers in order to ring the person closest to the music system and tell them to turn the goddamn thing off. I don't have much time for jazz at the best of times, and teaming two of jazz's best-known and best-loved figures still did nothing for me.

Crap lyrics: "The way you hold your knife/The way we danced till three/The way you changed my life"

Verdict: This (doo-be-doo) is (da-be-da-da) bloody (scooby-do-di) annoying (wah-wah-wah)


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