Stairway To The Stars - Mel Torme

Let’s build a stairway to the stars

The lovely stairway to the stars

It would be heaven to climb to Heaven with you

We’ll hear the sound of violins

Out yonder where the blue begins

The moon will guide us

As we go drifting along

Can’t we sail away on a lazy daisy petal

Over the rim of the hills?

Can’t we sail away on a little dream

And settle high on the crest of a thrill?

Let’s build a stairway to the stars

And climb that stairway to the stars

It would be heaven to climb to Heaven with you

Can’t we sail away on a little dream

And settle high on the crest of a thrill?

Let’s build a stairway to the stars

And climb that stairway to the stars

It would be heaven to climb to Heaven with you

It would be heaven to climb to Heaven with you

Ella Fitzgerald, there’s only one of those

Thank you so much

I love you, thank you

Ella, for a long time, kind of rested in a cult category

Until in about 1946 or '47

She came out with a record that caught everyone’s attention

Caught everyone’s fancy

And from that record on, she became a megastar

The record was «Lady Be Good»

And it’s the first record I ever heard that somebody sang scat on from

beginning to end

I’d never heard a record like that before

It was a groundbreaker and it taught me a lot

And tonight, we great reverential love and tribute to the great Ella Fitzgerald

We’re gonna haul out «Lady Be Good» and do it for you pretty much like she did