Showing posts with label let's call the whole thing off. Show all posts
Showing posts with label let's call the whole thing off. Show all posts

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Let's Call The Whole Thing Off — Ella Fitzgerald + Louis Armstrong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2oEmPP5dTM

Yesterday morning, before my Calc midterm, one of the guys who sits near me piped up: he'd been going through a breakup; he'd been studying for midterms; things were bad, and this song roused his spirits. He said: there's a part near the end (3:16) where Louis Armstrong just shouts 'tomahter' in the silliest way.

So we're in this math classroom at 9am, with my stomach churning and my head pounding and a math midterm before me: and suddenly the entire class including the teacher is doing Louis Armstrong impressions, shouting tomahter at the top of our lungs.