Ella Fitzgerald ft the Duke Ellington Orchestra Something To Live For ( Live At Cote DAzur 1966)

Something to Live For is a 1939 jazz composition by Billy Strayhorn. It was the first collaboration between Strayhorn and Duke Ellington and became the first of many Strayhorn compositions to be recorded by Ellington s orchestra. The song was based on a poem Strayhorn had written as a teenager. According to an allday tribute to Strayhorn on KCSM radio on November 29, 2008Strayhorn s birthdayStrayhorn began working on this tune in 1933 when he was 18. The song has been recorded many times, by Duke Ellington, Lena Horne and many others. Ella Fitzgerald has called it her favorite song. Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 June 15, 1996) was an American jazz vocalist with a vocal range spanning three octaves (D3 to D6). Often referred to as the First Lady of Song, the Queen of Jazz and Lady Ella, she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a hornlike improvisatio