Tonight, singer Patti Austin is appearing at New York's Carnegie Hall to perform Ella Fitzgerald's Gershwin Songbook. Best of all, Austin will be backed by the New York Pops Orchestra playing Nelson Riddle arrangements—courtesy of Christopher Riddle and the Riddle estate. Many of the charts haven't been heard behind a singer since Fitzgerald's monumental Gershwin Songbook recording in 1959. To see about last-minute tickets, go here.
Sunny isn't by George or Ira Gershwin, of course, but here's Fitzgerald and Tom Jones in 1970 singing Bobby Hebb's tune...
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