Ella Fitzgerald’s “You’re the Top”
In the 1956 studio album Ella Fitzgerald Covers the Cole Porter Song Book, Ella Fitzgerald covers “You’re the Top” from the 1934 musical Anything Goes, and in the last verse sings “You’re a rose, you’re Inferno’s Dante.” Watch here. Contributed by Victoria Nicholls (The Bolles School ’22)
Sighting Citation:
“Ella Fitzgerald’s “You’re the Top”.” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. February 18, 2020. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/ella-fitzgeralds-youre-the-top/.
Posted February 18, 2020