Ella Fitzgerald in Tokyo, 1964

Ella Fitzgerald in Tokyo, 1964

Ella Fitzgerald has been packing them in at Tokyo's Koseinenkin Hall with her "fellahs" from the Roy Eldridge Quartet.

Ella Fitzgerald has been packing them in at Tokyo's Koseinenkin Hall with her "fellahs" from the Roy Eldridge Quartet. Ella Fitzgerald -  Her record's in. A record by Jazz great Ella Fitzgerald will be added to the time capsule that will be buried at the 1965 New York World's Fair. The capsule carries as a payload the record of humanities advances, failures and foibles from 1939 to 1965. The singer's recorded voice will be accompanied by other items such as a Beatles record, a piece of graphite from the first nuclear reactor, to a sample of detergent for dish washing.

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