alocispepraluger102 Posted January 11, 2007 Report Posted January 11, 2007 New stamp honors Ella Fitzgerald By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, Associated Press WriterWed Jan 10, 2:25 AM ET The lady is a stamp! The U.S. Postal Service honors the First Lady of Song — Ella Fitzgerald — with her own postage stamp Wednesday. The 39-cent stamp is being released at ceremonies at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, and will be on sale across the country. People who don't know about her will see the stamp and think: "What makes this person special? And perhaps find out about the person and about the music," said her son, Ray Brown Jr. Fitzgerald wasn't self-important, perhaps reflecting the values she sang about in the Rodgers and Hart song "The Lady is a Tramp": "I don't like crap games, with barons and earls. Won't go to Harlem, in ermine and pearls. Won't dish the dirt, with the rest of the girls. That's why the lady is a tramp." Phoebe Jacobs, executive vice president of The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation and a longtime friend of Fitzgerald, described the singer as "a very private lady, very humble." After Fitzgerald confided in 1961 that she had never had a birthday party, Jacobs gathered a star-studded collection of people for the special event. The party was a secret, so Fitzgerald was told to dress up because there was a television interview. "When the lights came on she took her pocket book and hit me on the shoulder," Jacobs recalled. "She was like a little kid, she was so happy." Fitzgerald was a baseball fan and the guests included her favorite player, Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle. They embraced and traded autographs. Fitzgerald's appearance on a stamp comes less than a year after Mantle was featured among baseball sluggers. Born in Newport News, Va., in 1917, Ella Jane Fitzgerald moved with her mother to Yonkers, N.Y., as a youngster and began to sing and dance from an early age. She began winning talent competitions in the early 1930s and was hired to sing with Chick Webb's band. She later became famous as a scat singer, vocalizing nonsense syllables, and performed with most of the great musicians of the time. She recorded the song books of such composers as Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and Johnny Mercer. Over the years, Fitzgerald won 13 Grammy Awards and many other honors, including the National Medal of Arts, presented to her in 1987 by President Reagan. ___ Quote
robviti Posted January 11, 2007 Report Posted January 11, 2007 Fitzgerald was a baseball fan and the guests included her favorite player, Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle. They embraced and traded autographs. this is my favorite part of the story Quote
robviti Posted January 11, 2007 Report Posted January 11, 2007 btw, do you remember these gems? Quote
Hot Ptah Posted January 11, 2007 Report Posted January 11, 2007 (edited) btw, do you remember these gems? I still have quite a few of those stamps, and a different design was ultimately used for the John Coltrane stamp. Edited January 11, 2007 by Hot Ptah Quote
J Larsen Posted January 11, 2007 Report Posted January 11, 2007 I was just thinking that that wasn't a very flattering portrait of Trane. Quote
Hot Ptah Posted January 11, 2007 Report Posted January 11, 2007 I have wondered why Miles, Dizzy, Art Tatum, Ben Webster, and other jazz greats have not been honored with stamps. I thought that Art Tatum's omission from the 1994 set was especially unfortunate. I read the Post Office website on how to nominate someone for a stamp, and the scope of the problem became clear. It appears that it is a long, tortuous process to get someone on a stamp, with a lot of luck and subjective decision making involved. Quote
JSngry Posted January 11, 2007 Report Posted January 11, 2007 (Hey, is this legal - reproducing stamps? ) Only if they're both over the age of consent. Consult your local statutes. Quote
alocispepraluger102 Posted January 11, 2007 Author Report Posted January 11, 2007 (edited) I have wondered why Miles, Dizzy, Art Tatum, Ben Webster, and other jazz greats have not been honored with stamps. I thought that Art Tatum's omission from the 1994 set was especially unfortunate. I read the Post Office website on how to nominate someone for a stamp, and the scope of the problem became clear. It appears that it is a long, tortuous process to get someone on a stamp, with a lot of luck and subjective decision making involved. i would be surprised if many of our heroes dont have many stamps honoring them in europe. Edited January 11, 2007 by alocispepraluger102 Quote
robviti Posted January 11, 2007 Report Posted January 11, 2007 i just bought a sheet of these on ebay that i plan to frame. only $3.65 including shipping. Quote
.:.impossible Posted January 11, 2007 Report Posted January 11, 2007 the format of that blotter leads me to believe it is heavily dipped. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted January 12, 2007 Report Posted January 12, 2007 Somewhere I have a full sheet of Ellington stamps. It was a birthday gift from my parents. Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted January 12, 2007 Report Posted January 12, 2007 this is complete and total bullshit. u mean to tell me theres an ella stamp, but no gearld wilson orchestra stamp? ppppffffsttttt.... Quote
Hot Ptah Posted January 12, 2007 Report Posted January 12, 2007 this is complete and total bullshit. u mean to tell me theres an ella stamp, but no gearld wilson orchestra stamp? ppppffffsttttt.... Gerald Wilson is not dead. You have to be dead to be on a stamp. Quote
rockefeller center Posted January 12, 2007 Report Posted January 12, 2007 this is complete and total bullshit. u mean to tell me theres an ella stamp, but no gearld wilson orchestra stamp? ppppffffsttttt.... Gerald Wilson is not dead. You have to be dead to be on a stamp. Quote
brownie Posted January 12, 2007 Report Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) Edited January 12, 2007 by brownie Quote
Hot Ptah Posted January 12, 2007 Report Posted January 12, 2007 this is complete and total bullshit. u mean to tell me theres an ella stamp, but no gearld wilson orchestra stamp? ppppffffsttttt.... Gerald Wilson is not dead. You have to be dead to be on a stamp. You have to be dead to be on a U.S. stamp issued by the Post Office. Quote
rockefeller center Posted January 12, 2007 Report Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) Check this link from long ago: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...st&p=601482 Thank you very much. Did you search http://www.archive.org/ to find this post? I didn't realize this thread was exclusively about U.S. stamps. Edited January 12, 2007 by rockefeller center Quote
Randy Twizzle Posted January 12, 2007 Report Posted January 12, 2007 The boss man over at bixbeiderbecke.com has been lobbying for years for a Bix stamp. I don't know much about stamp technology but a gin flavored stamp would be nice. Quote
rockefeller center Posted January 12, 2007 Report Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) Check this link from long ago: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...st&p=601482 Thank you very much. Did you search http://www.archive.org/ to find this post? I didn't realize this thread was exclusively about U.S. stamps. Just being facetious. The link that I sent you to is the very same thread that we are now posting in. (see post #4 above). I know that it's in the same thread. Got to use smiley faces next time. Edited January 12, 2007 by rockefeller center Quote
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