FIRST TIME HEARING Ella Fitzgerald - Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today) REACTION

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[amaru]

Dude you are hands down putting up the best real music. Miss Otis Regrets!? You really have to be able to appreciate a broad range of musical style and history to listen to this. A certain amount of maturity is needed to even acknowledge songs like this. Outstanding.

[robertsterner]

One of the most impressive things about these Ella "Songbook" recordings is that she'd come into the studio and, in the case of the Cole Porter songbook for example, pump out 24 songs over the course of 4 days. Very little or no work done post-production, so if there was a bad note, it stayed there.

Personally, I most love Ella's live recordings that are far less "relaxing" than the studio stuff and give her space to spread out and flex her jazz muscles, but the Cole Porter Songbook was the first recording of Ella I heard and I asked someone "who IS THAT singing?" and I went out and bought 4 CDs immediately.

[rosemarywatson]

Ella and that exquisite voice. Yes, Miss Ella!

[SopranoSistah]

Woooo!👏🏾👏🏾Raw, horror-filled but BEAUTIFULLY sung. Ella can make even the worst story sound like a beautiful lullaby.

[dmartin]

Sometimes "no words" speaks volumes. Whether few words, or many, you definitely have the heart for music! As I've mentioned before...your expressions sometimes say all that needs to be said.

[leroywilliams]

Apart from Ella's amazing voice, the instruments of that era were strings, woods, and winds which are violins, piano, clarinet, flutes, oboes, cellos, trumpets, drums, and saxophones. I also think in that era bands were in one room with the singer when recording, and not in separate sound booths doing their individual parts.

[johnneils]

I love just about any song from Ella but this song request was perfect for a reaction. Loved it.

[DaveM-FFB]

This one is a real gem. Great song. I also like the Van Morrison version.

[wakeupstopsleeping]

Beautiful request Travis love the big band era and Ella there nothing more to say she makes anything sounds good it could be tragic nursery rhymes her legendary voice 💖💕💖💕💖

[mrdasbruce]

Ella can make anything beautiful and amazing. Cole Porter was a master story teller of his time.

[luminiferous]

One of the many wonderful performances by "The First Lady of Song" Ella Fitzgerald.

I think this reaction video and many of the comments on it miss that this song is a satirical parody, and an example of dark humor, and as such, is very funny.

From the Wikipedia entry on the Cole Porter song "Miss Otis Regrets": "The song began during a party at the New York apartment of Porter's classmate from Yale, Leonard Hanna. Hearing a cowboy's lament on the radio, Porter sat down at the piano and improvised a parody of the song. He retained the referential song’s minor-keyed blues melody and added his wry take on lyrical subject matter common in country music: the regret of abandonment after being deceitfully coerced into sexual submission.[3] Instead of a country girl, however, Miss Otis is a polite society lady.

Friend and Yale classmate Monty Woolley jumped in to help Porter "sell it", pretending to be a butler who explains why Madam can't keep a lunch appointment. In the previous 24 hours, Miss Otis was jilted and abandoned, located and killed her seducer, was arrested, jailed, and, about to be hanged by a mob, made a final, polite apology for being unable to keep her lunch appointment. This performance was so well received that the song evolved, "workshopped" with each subsequent cocktail party, many of which were at the Waldorf-Astoria suite of Elsa Maxwell, to whom Porter dedicated the song. The "smart set" that attended these parties, known to use wit or wisecracks to punctuate anecdotes and gossip, began using references to "Miss Otis" as a punchline. Porter incorporated the tale of "Miss Otis Regrets" into [his broadway show] "Hi Diddle Diddle" later that year.[3]"

[victorcowboywest]

I read and/or heard that Cole wrote this song to win a bet. He told a group of friends that he could write a song about anything. The next thing was an affair.