Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday

Let's make you happy
Happy
I've sung these blues, and i'm through
Cause i don't know what i'm singing about
I don't know what i'm singing about
With this happy music
This happy music

Ella Fitzgerald

My dad collects all sorts of things.
If you've been lucky enough (or unlucky enough I suppose) to take a look around my living room you will see daddy long leg figurines (african american sitting figures for those who don't know), sailboats, clowns, dolphins, birds, old women and men figurines, a tall glass case full of his most expensive crystal collectables, and my favorite of all of his things - his singing jazz band.

My dad loves jazz music. He will sit upstairs in his chair and listen to his records for hours (when he isn't watching sports of course). From the time I was very little I have been listening to the sounds of Billie Holiday, BB King, Bessie Smith, and one of my dads favorites, Ella Fitzgerald. I personally never shared my dads passion of blues and jazz music - but I do love when I am in my room and I hear the deep tones of those voices vibrating through the floors of the house, and I know that upstairs my dad is smiling and remembering a simpler time.