The Savoy Ballroom. My mother always told us about the times she was in there to dance and dance they did. For a young lady from SC, this was pure heaven. Who knows, Chick and Ella may still be packing the Savoy and momma may still be dancing with joy.

@zeusincoming282

9 ай бұрын

Place been torn down.

@anandapandya1

2 ай бұрын

She is sure to be there up in Heaven!

What a swing, and listen to that young Ella scat with all her chops in place. What a woman.

Terrible that he died so young - he was only 30 - what a magnificent talent he was - he could swing like nobody's business - I can't help but wonder what He & Ella could have accomplished together had he lived. As it is, his legacy is enormous - what great music!!!

@garyfoster3854

4 жыл бұрын

Bill Beason is the drummer on this track.

@brucekuehn4031

4 жыл бұрын

He died at age 34 - Pott’s disease or tuberculosis of the spine, leaving him with a short stature and badly deformed spine causing him to appear hunchbacked.

@TheHeater90

4 ай бұрын

He was actually 34 yrs old when he died.

Ella Fitzgerald... Wow. I love this woman.

@gammer0016

4 жыл бұрын

we all do

@BonnieThompson-ie9ci

29 күн бұрын

She was fantastic!!

Even in hard times of the depression of the 30s people always had time to forget their blues and jittter bug at the famous Savoy Ballroom in Harlem.

A recording from the latter half of 1939 or early 1940, after Chick had died. Ella took over the band and led it, billing was Ella FitzGerald with the Chick Webb Orchestra. Evidence? She doesn't mention his name among those of other musicians which would never have happened were Chick there, and the announcer announces it as Ella FitzGerald and the Chick Webb Orchestra. She kept the band together through most of the war, & had a number of hits including A Tisket a Tasket, 5 O'Clock Whistle

@hakanarlebrand658

6 ай бұрын

I agree. The drummer does not sound like Webb, must be Bill Beason.

Omg she's so good. Everyone here is SO good.

Chick webb was the man, too bad he died so young, though. His amazing music lives on and on. The Great Ella sure did enhance the orchestra. today's music can't hold a candle to these legends.

@garyfoster3854

4 жыл бұрын

Bill Beason is the drummer.

@ToddAlanSloane

2 жыл бұрын

It really was Chick who you might say discovered Ella, or at least gave her her first opportunities. I love that fact the great bandleaders, like Webb, can spot talent so early and showcase it. Webb's been called the grandfather of many drummers and rightly so. So many later players, who's names are more recognized (Buddy Rich, Louis Bellson for example) credit Webb as there major influencer. Driving, just Driving on the drums. Rest in Peace Chick Webb.

Brilliant... this music is so full of rhythm and swing... it's exciting, dancing, foot tapping ... a superb performance... and a radio recording too... thank goodness it was not lost... cracking music

Chick was the real King of Swing!

I LOVE this sensational video of a very young Ella Fitzgerald when she was singing with the Chick Webb Band at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in the late1930s. (I,also, love the beautiful photographs of her in this video.) This one really swings!!! DMM

@garyfoster3854

4 жыл бұрын

Bill Beason is the drummer on this track.

Can't get better than this - Ella and Chick - fantastic

@garyfoster3854

4 жыл бұрын

Bill Beason is the drummer on this track.

Ella Fitzgerald and Chick Webb. 'Nuff said. "Throwback Thursday: The Classics." Thanks for the post. Blessings

@garyfoster3854

4 жыл бұрын

Bill Beason is the drummer on this track.

Can't find this at Amazon, so must come to KZread. It's worth it. One of the best swing songs ever.

@fabienlonchan

10 ай бұрын

There it is : www.amazon.com/Groove-Ella-Fitzgerald/dp/B00004SBTH/ref=sr_1_7?crid=38DOC3DP09FAN&keywords=in+the+groove+ella+fitzgerald&qid=1695389954&sprefix=in+the+groove+ella+fitzgeral%2Caps%2C177&sr=8-7 If you buy it, please do not share a digital copy to any Europeans that can't buy it there, it's forbidden to make and share copy

The audio quality of these radio broadcasts is superb. Thanks Caldonia's!

2 of the Greats...Ella and Chick...🤩

I cannot stop playing it.

Glorious swing. Sandy Williams rules!

@billybarty2948

4 жыл бұрын

HIP HOP RULES BUTTHEAD! 👴🏿🚬

This version certainly SWINGS & SWINGS' Great music from some of the musical giants of jazz. Wonderful & Amazing

damn! What an era! thanks KZread ,, this will live forever!

Bring it back People!

Man Ella and these dudes are swinging! Jammin! Love it!

The longer it plays the bettter it. gets .W O W .

I keep coming back to this song. It really lifts my mood. Cheers.

I saw Ella in west germany in 1959 , at the essener jazztage ,cost only 75p. she was on tour with Norman Granz.

This is Chick Webb' orchestra lead by Ella Fitzgerald but this is not Chick on drums but Bill Beason ! Chick Webb dead on june 16, 1939 ! This has been recorded after his death...but this is yet a good version of St Louis blues even if Bill Beason wasn't as great as Chick was...

@billybarty2948

4 жыл бұрын

👴🏿🚬 SHUT UP , ASSHEAD!

@macvoutie

3 жыл бұрын

@@billybarty2948 He is right though. If Chick was alive the announcer at the end would have mentioned him but he didn't. Also it's a fact that Ella fronted the band after Chick's death so everybody would have a job. Learn to be nice. In other words behave to someone like they're standing close enough to put you on your ass if you act disrepectful.

@danielblanchon6093

3 жыл бұрын

@@macvoutie Scathing response addressed to a fool!

@SELMER1947

3 жыл бұрын

@@billybarty2948 Asshead yourself dumbass

@SELMER1947

3 жыл бұрын

@@monicabella7894 A problem ?

It always swung it whenever Chick Webb and Ella got together

@garyfoster3854

4 жыл бұрын

Bill Beason is the drummer on this track.

This music makes me smiling ,how people of that time did not wait to engoy good music you can feel the atmosphere ,it was just great ,thank you for the video bro.

Stunning, just stunning......

@myroncohen7619

2 жыл бұрын

Check out The sound track for the movie Kansas City with Victor Lewis on Drums and Other Greats!!Higgins and Herbie and I think Dexter had actor parts in the Movie aswell!!

Fantastic.WOW.!

Ooooooh yes indeed, Bring It Back.

Now that's a gem! Thanks for posting.

She sounds so young, much different than what I remember as a kid in the 60's..

merveilleux,what a swing !

😀👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💖oooo HEART 💖MY SOUL IS IN TH TUNE 😀 WELL ...if we didn't have these politicians..and our World finally comes to peace and evenness..what else would we be doing..but SING & DANCE? ONE DAY MY FRIENDS..ONE DAY 💖💪🏼

Oh yeah!! Priceless! Thank you for uploading. Ella = one of a kind. Thanks Chick Webb for bringing her to our attention!!

She had such a high pitch, light voice back then. Very interesting how she changed over the years.

This song still sounds great and will get you movin, I'm sure back in the day the joint was definitely jumpin!!, 📣 baby baaaby!!!

Imposible olvidar a Ella Fitzgerald !!! Sergey desde Rusia .Saludo a todos!

@SergeiSergioVinogradov

9 жыл бұрын

Sorry! I used of Spanish.

@bobboscarato8313

8 жыл бұрын

+Sergei / Sergio Vinogradov Hola Sergio, ciertamente nadie puede olvidar a Ella Fitzgerald. Saludos desde Texas.

@wendellcurtis7061

7 жыл бұрын

N Baker !

Oh my godz... This is where cool comes to retire..

Thanks for posting this. I can create some nasty choreo to this!

THIS is dance music.

Love me some Ella❤❤❤❤❤

Que años aquellos!! El mejor jazz!! Y Al Capone!!

A thrilling live performance from the Savoy Ballroom! Unfortunately the great Chick Webb had gone beyond when this was recorded. In the outro the announcer says "Ella Fitzgerald who presented her orchestra", not Chick Webb's.

@garyfoster3854

4 жыл бұрын

Bill Beason is the drummer on this track.

Perfekcyjne wykonanie !,

Wonderful.

Ciao! Questa trasmissione è stato fatto maggio 1935!!!! Grazie per il post tanto:)))

Wow!

Wow This is great

Great!!!

Grande canção , resumo espetacular de tudo que apaixona no Jazz Tradicional e no Blues , base da maioria das músicas do pós guerra e até hoje , desde Dana Shore até Daughter Maitland , passando por Louis , Ella e outros gênios ,que a tocaram e ou cantaram , ouçam e aproveitem

Has anyone ever found any film of Chick and the band performing? Would love to see it if such a thing exists.

🌺 Amazingness 🌺

20 july 1939 WNEW-AM radio broadcast from Savoy Ballroom. Drums: Bill Beason.

Check Ken Burns' series on Jazz. As I recall there is a very short and indistinct clip of him. A shame given that he lived such a short time, but it's the same with guitar player Django Reinhardt, about 12 to 15 seconds

I love this!

Wow!😍 I'm sharing this🎶

GREAT POST

One of the best known are maybe. Number 1💯

No puedo dejar de mover los pies. Ella & Chick❤

@Sayri._

8 жыл бұрын

Yo tampoco, es maravilloso lo que causa esta musica en el uerpo.

That picture of Duke in the audience just in AWE of Ella… amazing

Turn of the decades to the 40's WPA, the rebuilding of the states and onto Swing; it was on its way in. Big Band Swing! Big, new American Dream of the 1940s!

Lord mercy madame ella rip

Bring it Back. .Bucking Bantastic. (F).

Is this from a complete surviving broadcast? I'd be ecstatic to hear the full thing!

makes me feel as if my dead parents were still alive ghosting around in the house.

@steveboyd8836

3 жыл бұрын

Mine, too!

Thanksss!

WOW thankyou :)

This could be early Rock n 'Roll!

would like to watch that original...

Favolosaaaa

Awesome

The best! :-)

Was Chick the Real Star or was it Ella? I wish there was live Footage of Webb in Full Swing!

Nicely edited.

You forgot to add in your opinion. Disco turned out some jewels. I can appreciate & evaluate music from every era.

muito bom

Chick Webb was the king of swing. I would like to take his position as the greatest of all time. As of now i can play all he played. does that make me the greatest ever?

Ella showed some talent then, but her voice here sounds very much a voice from that era. It hadn't matured into the wonderful, ageless instrument that it later became.

Where did this recording come from? I'd love to be able to purchase the album or an mp3.

This was recorded AFTER Chick had passed...how am i so sure? Well it doesn't sound like Chick, the Band is too well recorded, ive never this before and the annoucer states clearly that this is Ella's Orchestra so with all that in mind the drummer is Bill Beason..thank you.

I appreciate the photos of the dancers -- looks like they were doing the Lindy Hop. Those young folks had energy to let, No one will ever dance like that again, not at a club dance, anyway. People are too afraid of sweating these days.

Whoa - does this predate Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy? Someone got some splainin to do

Today is Ella Fitzgerald's birthday!

Chick is swinging here , beautiful..

@garyfoster3854

4 жыл бұрын

Bill Beason is the drummer on this track.

@monicabella7894

3 жыл бұрын

Ella too!

@SteveCournane

3 жыл бұрын

@@garyfoster3854 thanks for that Gary. Only just saw it now. Never heard of that man

@garyfoster3854

3 жыл бұрын

@@SteveCournane He replaced Webb when Chick passed away and continued on as Ella's drummer when she took over the band. He was an excellent drummer who played in many of the great Harlem big bands like Teddy Hill and later on with Sy Oliver's Orchestra.

@SteveCournane

3 жыл бұрын

@@garyfoster3854 Thanks again Gary. Great info

If its Bill Beason @dretety what year would it be?---It certainly is very clear and the guitar also sounds very modern

em 0:14 o poster "Back at the Savoy Room" aparece tmb no quarto do Dr.House na 2ª Temporada no episodio "House x God" =)

listen to how young ELLA is!!!?!? this is totally plausibly chick swingin'

@garyfoster3854

4 жыл бұрын

Bill Beason is the drummer on this track.

Hi. I'm trying to find this recording on CD or at least as an mp3 download. Can anyone tell me where I can find it?

richard lewis sent me

Rada

Is there any film footage of Chick Webb playing anywhere?

1:48 Tenor Madness

@sequoyahcisneros8719

5 жыл бұрын

Lol I thought of that too

is it Duke Ellington sitting in the audience at min. 0:56???

@hcwollaston

4 жыл бұрын

// Blanchard. Without doubt, ist is the Duke admiring Ella and the band and having a great time, haha!

the pic at 1:42. .. . .

That's not Chick Webb, it's Bill Beason on the drums.

Music was good until disco came along. Then record companies realized that they just needed a beat and some crap on top of it and people would buy it. that was the beginning of the end. That's where we are today, poor quality, lacks imagination, churned out in mass production. Sadly, not many young people realize what junk they are listening to. Luckily, my 4 kids have raided my CD collection and know what good music is. My 17 year old daughter wants me to will her my collection when I die.

Ah yes; the Boogie Woogie Boost?

Sorry, but it's not. No announcement of Chick Webb and his Orchestra, just The Orchestra of the Savoy Ballroom. Ella calls out the name of a number of musicians but not Chick. And the style isn't Chick either. Chick was a powerhouse. This guy is way too laid back and relaxed.

@garyfoster3854

4 жыл бұрын

Bill Beason is the drummer on this track.