OLUMNIST Harry Mead is right to say the Ella Fitzgerald recordings of the Great American Song Book are sublime (Echo, June 5). I particularly like, and have a copy of, the Cole Porter album.
They say Ella could not conclude a British concert without singing Porter's Every Time We Say Goodbye.
She made the Songbook recordings in the 1950s, but I also have a liking for Rod Stewart's more recent version. He is very good on the harmony notes and gives a faithful rendition of the songs.
As for The Zimmers and their chart success, My Generation, could they have pulled it off with a Rodgers and Hart song?
LD Wilson, Guisborough, East Cleveland.
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