afeok (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

To say AWESOME is to say nothing!

ifyoulljustsmile (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Dinah always looks so happy! I love how much SHE loves what she does.

Julz429 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I think more the insult that I found with that is that white women cannot have good timing.

munchbox138 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Wrong! When someone is as great as she was, probably the most gifted singer of the 20th century, she creates her own magic and appearance is not even in the equation.

elyahdarkp (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

haha.. that's my name too..:D and i sing too. and nope, never as good as this Ella... She makes me proud my name is Ella.. LOL

NoirEtoile1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

What a tool you are to make the assumption it was a slight or insult. I'm black. And I certainly didn't mean it as a "racist attack." It was a compliment. Now how unfortunate is that?

Waldo99 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Actually she was entirely of Russian Jewish descent. She was from the south though. The racists in the media back in the day who detested her Jewishness wrote racist attacks against her to hurt her career implying she was mixed race back when that was taboo. It is unfortunate that you continue those untruths today.

fritzwerner (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

A "gem" of an TV hour!!!! It's impossible, not love Ella!!!

mathteacher1729 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Pure, glimmering, beautiful genius. I don't understand how a person could NOT get shivers watching this phenomenal display of effortless and super-human vocal control. I firmly believe that talent of this magnitude exists today, but that the rare individuals who posses such talent are simply not appealing to the mass media, and thus go undiscovered and undeveloped. This sort of wasted genius is perhaps the greatest tragedy in music since Mozart's early death.

spacecadet1812 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

FIERCE TALENT.