Frank n’ Ella

February 12th, 2004 · No Comments

My latest GarageBand novelty is a duet that never was, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald singing “Dancing on the Ceiling” (no, not Lionel Richie, but Rodgers and Hart). They sang together once or twice, but I don’t think they sang this. It’s essentially a mash-up of the same song, so I guess that’s maybe not a mash-up, technically, but it works, surprisingly well. They’re singing in different keys, but they take the tempo the same, for the most part. Putting the two together only required three edits: two to cut out long pauses by Sinatra that threw everything off, and one to take out Ella’s repeated third verse by replacing her “my love” from the middle with the one from the end. I dare say it’s even more listenable than Sinatra’s later work with Jimmy Buffett. I hope.

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