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(upbeat music) (mysterious music) - Good evening and welcome to Mainewatch (upbeat music) (projector clicking) Welcome to From the Vault, a celebration of 60 years of Maine Public Television.

Maine Public has televised countless local concerts over the years, from community bands to world renowned groups and the occasional legend.

And that's who we have tonight.

Two, in fact.

We will go back to 1989 for an episode of Live from the Maine Center for the Arts and a performance by the great Ella Fitzgerald with jazz guitarist Joe Pass.

The live broadcast of this concert is nearly two and a half hours long, so you will see a shortened version.

Now let's join the First Lady of Song as we go back to 1989 for Live from the Maine Center for the Arts with Ella Fitzgerald.

(gentle music) - [Announcer] The television and radio stations of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network present a special event, Live from the Maine Center for the Arts.

(suspenseful music) Good evening.

I'm Les Myers of MPBN Radio.

Welcome to tonight's live simulcast on MPBN Television and Radio.

We are coming to you from the beautiful Hutchins Concert Hall in the Maine Center for the Arts, located on the University of Maine campus in Orono.

Tonight, we are proud to present the first event of the 1989-1990 Maine Center Season, with a performance by the greatest lady of Jazz, Ella Fitzgerald.

Ella will be joined on stage later by jazz guitarist, Joe Pass and a trio of splendid jazz musicians will contribute to the enjoyment of the evening.

They are Mike Woffard on piano, Earl Palmer on drums and Keter Betts on bass.

Ella Fitzgerald incredibly flexible, beautiful voice has overwhelmed musicians, critics, and audiences for more than five decades.

This gentle, shy woman who can take even the most trivial material and turn it into a memorable musical performance can be as afraid and unsure of herself privately as she must have been as an orphan teenager.

Watching Ella Fitzgerald on stage or listening to her on records today, you hear a consummate artist totally sure of where she is and what she's doing.

A singer who has sold more than 25 million records, who has been named Best Female Jazz Singer for four decades, who has been awarded everything from the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors to Grammys and honorary degrees from Yale and UCLA, who's the favorite vocalist of practically every popular or jazz musician who ever played, from Louis Armstrong to Lester Young, from Count Basie and Duke Ellington, to Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra.

It was in the late 1920s that this junior high school student who wanted to be a dancer, heard the Boswell Sisters.

She was especially influenced by Connie Boswell.

Fitzgerald says, "She was tops at the time.

"I was attracted to her immediately.

"My mother brought home one of her records, "and I just fell in love with it.

"I tried so hard to sound just like her."

Ella Fitzgerald mixes scat and lyrical singing like a bilingual speaker, unconsciously sprinkling foreign words into an English sentence.

She doesn't need to speak English at all.

While some scat singers sound like they're substituting sounds or syllables for words, Fitzgerald sounds like she's singing a foreign language, a beautiful, African language that can be understood universally, like a preacher singing in tongues.

But Fitzgerald also has a beautiful legato voice that can master standards from Lerner Lowe to Duke Ellington without having to rearrange them, and of course, Fitzgerald can barely contain herself from taking a song apart and putting it back together more creativity.

She has perfect intonation and the confidence in her musicianship to know that no matter how far she gets from the original melody, she'll always be able to find her way home.

Ella Fitzgerald probably could sing rock, if she wanted to, have apprenticed in the 1930s with Chick Webb, the progenitor of rhythm and blues.

She knows how to put a rough edge on a song, and make it move.

The music goes through her and when it comes out, it lights up the room.

(audience applauding) The trio is coming on stage now, and in a moment, we'll hear from Ella Fitzgerald.

This is a live broadcast from the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono, Maine.

And there she is, Ella Fitzgerald.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) (audience applauding) - Thank you.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) Well.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) Thank you so much.

(audience applauding) Thank you very much.

I hope you feel the same when we finish.

(light jazzy music) ♪ Be wise ♪ Be smart ♪ He's too close for comfort ♪ Behave, my heart ♪ He's too close for comfort ♪ Be wise, be smart ♪ Behave, my heart ♪ Don't upset your cart ♪ When he's so close ♪ Be soft, be sweet ♪ But be discreet ♪ Don't go off your beat ♪ He's too close for comfort ♪ Too close, too close for comfort ♪ ♪ Please, not again ♪ Too close, too close to know ♪ Just when to say when ♪ Be firm, be fair ♪ Be sure, beware ♪ On your guard, take care ♪ While there's such temptation ♪ ♪ One thing leads to another ♪ Too late to run for cover ♪ He's much too close for comfort now ♪ ♪ Be wise, be smart ♪ Behave, my heart ♪ Don't upset your cart ♪ When he's so close ♪ Be soft, be sweet ♪ But be discreet ♪ Don't go off your feet ♪ He's too close for comfort ♪ Too close, too close for comfort ♪ ♪ Please, not again ♪ Too close, too close ♪ To know just when ♪ To say when ♪ Be firm, be fair ♪ Be sure, beware ♪ On your guard, take care ♪ While there's such temptation ♪ ♪ One thing leads to another ♪ Too late to run for cover ♪ He's much too close for comfort now ♪ ♪ One thing leads to another ♪ Too late to run for cover ♪ He's much too close for comfort now ♪ ♪ One thing leads to another ♪ Too late to run for cover ♪ He's much too close for comfort now ♪ ♪ Ooh biddy doo da doo dup ♪ Doo da lay do doh da lay doo ♪ Doo, dah, dup ♪ Too close, too close ♪ Ba da doop day ♪ Doo dah la bee da doh ♪ Bi doo dee doh day ♪ Too close, too close ♪ Too close for comfort ♪ Now (audience cheering) (audience applauding) Thank you!

(audience applauding) (audience cheering) Thank you so much.

Thank you.

(light jazzy music) ♪ Cigarette holder ♪ Which wigs me ♪ Over my shoulder ♪ He digs me ♪ Out cattin' ♪ My satin doll ♪ Baby shall we go ♪ Out steppin' ♪ Careful amigo ♪ Ah, you're flippin' ♪ Speaks Latin ♪ My satin doll ♪ Nobody's fool ♪ And I'm playing it cool as can be ♪ ♪ Give it a whirl ♪ Ain't for no boy catching me ♪ Switcherooni ♪ Telephone numbers ♪ Well, and you know ♪ I'm doing my rumba with uno ♪ And that'n ♪ My satin doll (bright jazz music) - Mike Wofford.

(audience applauding) (bright jazz music) ♪ Telephone numbers ♪ Well, then you know ♪ Doing my rumba with uno ♪ And that'n ♪ My satin doll (light jazzy music) ♪ And that'n ♪ My satin doll ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ And that'n ♪ My satin doll ♪ Well, that doll ♪ He's my ♪ Sap ah pah dah dah ♪ Satin doll (audience applauding) (audience cheering) Thank you!

Thank you.

(audience applauding) Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to our show and we hope you'll enjoy the songs we've chosen.

We tried to mix them up, some old, some new, some I don't know.

(audience laughing) But, and a few requests that we put in, and we hope you'll enjoy it.

The only thing that I didn't put in was rap.

(audience laughing) Oh, I did it in (indistinct).

I made up my own rap.

(audience laughing) (gentle piano music) ♪ No one to talk with ♪ All by myself ♪ No one to walk with ♪ But I'm happy on the shelf ♪ Ain't misbehavin' ♪ Saving my love for you ♪ I know for certain ♪ The one I love ♪ I'm through with flirtin' ♪ It's just you I'm thinkin' of ♪ ♪ Ain't misbehavin' ♪ I'm savin' ♪ My love for you (gentle piano music) ♪ Like Jack Horner ♪ In the corner ♪ Don't go nowhere ♪ What do I care ♪ Your kisses are ♪ Worth waitin' for ♪ Believe me ♪ I don't go out late ♪ Don't care to go ♪ I'm home about eight ♪ Just me and my radio ♪ Ain't misbehavin' ♪ Savin' my love ♪ For you ♪ Like Jack Horner ♪ In the corner ♪ Don't go nowhere ♪ What do I care ♪ Your kisses are ♪ Worth waitin' for ♪ Believe me ♪ I don't go out late ♪ Don't care to go ♪ I'm home about eight ♪ Just me and my radio ♪ Ain't misbehavin' ♪ Savin' my love ♪ For you ♪ Don't go out late ♪ I don't care to go ♪ Just sitting home ♪ Digging the TV show ♪ I ain't misbehavin' ♪ Saving ♪ My love ♪ Oh, my love ♪ For you ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (audience applauding) (audience cheering) Thank you.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) Thank you so much.

I thank you.

You liked that one.

Thank you.

We threw in a few oldies.

(bright jazz music) This is from our album with Count Basie.

♪ Did you say that I've got a lot to learn ♪ ♪ Well, don't think I'm trying not to learn ♪ ♪ Since this is the perfect spot to learn ♪ ♪ Teach me tonight ♪ Starting with the A-B-C of it ♪ ♪ Right down to the X-Y-Z of it ♪ ♪ Help me solve the mystery of it ♪ ♪ Teach me tonight ♪ The sky's a blackboard high above you ♪ ♪ If a shooting star goes by ♪ I'll use that star to write, I love you ♪ ♪ A thousand times across the sky ♪ ♪ One thing isn't very clear, my love ♪ ♪ Should the teachers stand so near, my love ♪ ♪ Graduation's almost here, my love ♪ ♪ Teach me tonight ♪ Did you say I got a lot to learn, yeah ♪ ♪ Well, don't think I'm trying not to learn ♪ ♪ Since this is the perfect spot to learn ♪ ♪ Come on, teach me tonight ♪ Starting with the A-B-C of it ♪ ♪ Right down to the X-Y-Z of it ♪ ♪ Help me solve the mystery of this ♪ ♪ Teach me tonight ♪ The sky's a blackboard high above you ♪ ♪ If a shooting star goes by ♪ I'll use that star to write I love you ♪ ♪ A thousand times across the sky ♪ ♪ One thing isn't very clear, my love ♪ ♪ Should the teacher stand so near, my love ♪ ♪ Graduation's almost here, my love ♪ ♪ Almost here, my love ♪ Almost here, my love ♪ Teach me tonight ♪ Come on and teach me ♪ Teach me ♪ Tonight (audience cheering) (audience applauding) Thank you!

Thank you so much.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) I thank you.

Thank you.

(gentle piano music) For the Duke Ellington fans, we like to do a little medley and also let you know that it's out on a CD.

(audience laughing) Hmm?

♪ Do nothin' till you hear from me ♪ (audience applauding) ♪ Pay no attention to what's said ♪ ♪ Why people tear the seam of anyone's dream ♪ ♪ Is over my head ♪ Do nothin' till you hear from me ♪ ♪ At least consider our romance ♪ ♪ If you should take the word of others you've heard ♪ ♪ I haven't a chance ♪ True, I've been seen with someone new ♪ ♪ But does that mean that I've been untrue ♪ ♪ Since we're apart, the words in my heart ♪ ♪ Reveal how I feel about you ♪ Some kiss may cloud my memories ♪ ♪ And other arms may hold a thrill ♪ ♪ But, please, do nothin' till you hear it from me ♪ ♪ And you never will (gentle piano music) ♪ Never treats me sweet and gentle ♪ ♪ The way he should ♪ I got it bad and that ain't good ♪ ♪ No, no, good my heart is sentimental ♪ ♪ Not made of wood ♪ Yes, I've got it bad, so bad ♪ And that ain't good (gentle piano music) ♪ But when the weekend's over ♪ And Monday rolls around ♪ I end up like I start out ♪ Just cryin' my heart out ♪ Lord above me, make him love me ♪ ♪ The way he should ♪ I've got it bad ♪ And that ain't ♪ Do nothing till you hear from me ♪ (audience cheering) (audience applauding) Thank you.

This is a number from one of our young generations, and I think he's such a good composer, and it's out in our latest album.

♪ Only a fool like fools before me ♪ ♪ I always think with my heart ♪ Only a fool ♪ That same old story ♪ Seems I was born for the part ♪ ♪ It's a lesson that I've learned ♪ ♪ A page I should have turned ♪ I shouldn't cry but I do ♪ Like an ordinary fool ♪ When his ordinary dreams fall through ♪ (jazzy piano music) ♪ How many times have I mistaken ♪ ♪ Good looks and laughs for the blues ♪ ♪ How many times have I mistaken ♪ ♪ Love songs and laughs for bad news ♪ ♪ When the road I walked before ♪ ♪ Ends up at my front door ♪ I shouldn't cry but I do ♪ Like an ordinary fool ♪ When his ordinary dreams fall through ♪ ♪ Ordinary dreams ♪ Like an ordinary fool ♪ When his ordinary dreams fall through ♪ ♪ Ordinary dreams fall through ♪ Ordinary dreams ♪ Fall through (light, jazzy piano music) (audience cheering) (audience applauding) Thank you.

That's a Paul Williams' song, ladies and gentlemen.

Isn't that pretty tune?

I dig that.

All right?

Thank you.

This one is by Burt Bacharach.

Then we'll wake you up.

(light piano music) ♪ A chair is still a chair ♪ Even when there's nothing ♪ No one sittin' there ♪ A chair is not a house ♪ And a house is not a home ♪ When there's no one there ♪ To hold you tight ♪ And no one there you can kiss goodnight ♪ ♪ A room is a still a room ♪ Even when there's nothin' there but gloom ♪ ♪ A room is not a house and a house is not a home ♪ ♪ When the two of us are far apart ♪ ♪ And one of us has a broken heart ♪ ♪ Now and then I speak your name ♪ ♪ And suddenly your face appears ♪ ♪ But it's just a crazy game ♪ When it ends, it ends in tears ♪ ♪ Darling, have a heart ♪ Don't let one mistake keep us apart ♪ ♪ I'm not meant to live alone ♪ Turn this house into a home ♪ When I climb the stairs and turn the key ♪ ♪ Oh, please be there ♪ Still in love with me ♪ It's so nice to have a man ♪ Around the house ♪ It's so nice to have a man around the house ♪ ♪ I'm not meant to live around ♪ Turn this house into a home ♪ When I climb the stairs ♪ And turn the key ♪ Oh, please be there ♪ Still in love ♪ With me (gentle piano music) ♪ A chair is still a chair ♪ A house is still a house ♪ A home is not a home ♪ Without a man (gentle piano music) (audience applauding) (audience cheering) (audience applauding) Thank you.

That's a pretty song.

(bright jazzy music) Okay.

Thank you.

(bright jazzy music) ♪ It don't mean a thing ♪ If it ain't got that swing (audience applauding) ♪ Doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah ♪ Doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah ♪ ♪ It don't mean a thing ♪ All you gotta do is sing ♪ Doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah ♪ Doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah ♪ ♪ It makes no difference ♪ If it's sweet or hot ♪ Give that rhythm everything you've got ♪ ♪ It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing ♪ ♪ Doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah ♪ ♪ Doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah ♪ ♪ Ba doo-ah, bop, bop ♪ Ba doo-ah, bop, bop ♪ Ba dah doo doo doo ♪ Da deep dee ♪ Bip bop bop bah bip bah bop bop bop ♪ ♪ Bah dah day doh dop ♪ Dah dah doop doo day ah ♪ Bah doo doo dee dap doo doo ♪ Dop doo dee doh dah dee ♪ Bop bop bah doh day ♪ Doo doo doo dee dee ♪ Fiddle dee dop ♪ Fiddle dee dop ♪ Fiddle dee dop, dop, dah ♪ Ba bop doo doo doo ♪ Doo doo diddle dee ah (bright jazzy music) (audience applauding) ♪ Ee yup (rousing bass jazz music) Yeah.

♪ It don't mean a thing (audience applauding) ♪ If yeah ♪ All you've gotta do is swing (upbeat jazz music) ♪ Dah dah doo doo dop dah dee dah ♪ ♪ Don't mean a thing It's Joe.

(audience applauding) (bright jazz music) ♪ Everybody love my baby ♪ But my baby don't love (audience applauding) ♪ Ba bee ♪ Bip bip doh ba bop doo dee dee doodle dee dah ♪ ♪ Bah dah bip doodle dee dah day ♪ ♪ Bip bop bah day doh day dun don ♪ ♪ Bah beep bip doh deep dah dah ♪ ♪ Bop ah deep doh dip doh ♪ Don't mean a thing ♪ If it ain't got that sawing ♪ Doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah ♪ ♪ Doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah ♪ ♪ Doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah ♪ ♪ Doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah ♪ ♪ It don't ♪ Mean ♪ Doh, dah, mean a thing ♪ Oh people ♪ Ba beep dah doy dah bay bay doh ♪ ♪ Bo bah doh doh ay ah (audience cheering) (audience applauding) Keter, Mike.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) Joe.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) I thank you.

Fellows.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) Thank you.

Thank you.

We had a request, somebody heard us do this number.

So we'll try it for you.

And please, I'm singing through my nose.

(audience laughing) Oh, brother, don't you hate it, coming in here, you got sinus.

You know what it is.

No apologies, Ella.

You should've just go on and sing, that's all.

(audience laughing) Pretty soon I'll be singing like Pops.

(audience laughing) All right?

(intense jazz music) ♪ Anything you do is all right ♪ Anything you say is okay ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ Just gonna be the way ♪ Well all right ♪ Okay ♪ You win ♪ 'Cause I'm in love with you ♪ But all right ♪ Okay ♪ You win ♪ Tell me what did I do ♪ I'll do anything you say ♪ Gonna be that way ♪ Well all right ♪ Okay, you win ♪ I'm in love with you ♪ Well, all right ♪ All right, okay, you win ♪ Anything for you ♪ Just as long as it's me and you ♪ ♪ First thing in the morning ♪ Here's what you gotta do ♪ Just love me like I love you ♪ Whoa, oh, whoa, oh, dah, doo doo ♪ ♪ Well all right ♪ Okay, you win ♪ I'm in love with you ♪ All right, okay, you win ♪ Tell me what can I do ♪ Anything you say ♪ It's just gonna be that way ♪ All right ♪ Okay ♪ Yeah, baby ♪ What it is ♪ Hey, Daddy ♪ What's happening ♪ Come on, Mama ♪ Tell me 'bout it ♪ Come on, baby ♪ And hold me tight ♪ Come on, baby ♪ Just love me right ♪ Just love me like I love you ♪ Whoo ♪ I won't hunting hard ♪ Yeah ♪ All right ♪ Okay, you win ♪ I'm in love with you ♪ Well, all right ♪ Okay, you win ♪ What should I do ♪ I'll do anything ♪ Gonna be ♪ Gotta be ♪ Gotta be ♪ Gonna be ♪ Gonna be ♪ Gotta be ♪ All right ♪ Gonna be ♪ Oh, all right ♪ Gotta be ♪ Oh, all right ♪ What I said now ♪ I said it's gonna ♪ I said it's gonna ♪ Gotta, gotta, gotta ♪ Gonna be all right ♪ All right ♪ Oh, oh, oh (bright jazz music) ♪ Well, all right (audience applauding) (bright jazz music) (audience cheering) (audience applauding) Whoo!

Thank you, Joe and his band.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) - [Les] Ella Fitzgerald with Joe Pass, on piano, Mike Wofford, drums Earl Palmer, and Keter Betts on bass.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) The great Ella Fitzgerald, who someone has called an American institution in her own time.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) Performing in the Maine Center for the Arts live in this opening season concent from the Center.

There will be an encore.

Ella Fitzgerald.

- You've been so generous.

Thank you, dear, you give me courage.

(light jazz music) This is a number I just love, and I found out we recorded this in Monterrey 1977.

(light jazz music) ♪ You are the sunshine of my life ♪ (audience cheering) (audience applauding) ♪ That's why I'll always be around ♪ ♪ You are the apple of my eye ♪ Mm, mm ♪ Forever you'll stay in my heart ♪ ♪ I feel like this is the beginning ♪ ♪ Though I've loved you for a million years ♪ ♪ And if I thought our love was ending ♪ ♪ I'd find myself drowning in my own tears ♪ ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh, whoa, oh ♪ ♪ You are the sunshine of my life ♪ ♪ Mm, mm ♪ That's why I'll always be around ♪ ♪ You are the sunshine of my life ♪ ♪ That's why I'll always be around ♪ ♪ You are the apple of my eye ♪ Forever, forever, forever, forever you stay in my heart ♪ ♪ I feel like this is the beginning ♪ ♪ Oh, I've loved you for so many years ♪ ♪ And if I thought our love was ending ♪ ♪ I'd find myself drowning in my own tears ♪ ♪ You are the sunshine of my life ♪ ♪ Mm, mm ♪ That's why I'll always be around ♪ ♪ That's why I'll always be around ♪ ♪ Okay ♪ I say, God didn't make little green apples ♪ ♪ And it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime ♪ ♪ 'Cause you're the sunshine ♪ You're the apple ♪ You're the apple, you're the sunshine ♪ ♪ Sunshine, you're the apple ♪ You are my sunshine ♪ My only sunshine ♪ Yes, you are my sunshine ♪ You are the sunshine ♪ Of my life (bright jazz music) Thank you, God bless, thanks so much.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) Thank you, Joe, Earl.

Keter.

Mike.

Thank you for being so generous, ladies and gentlemen.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) - [Les] Ella Fitzgerald.

With guitarist, Joe Pass, pianist, Mike Wofford, drummer, Earl Palmer, and bass, Keter Betts.

In a concert live from the Maine Center for the Arts, opening this fourth season of the 1989-90 season of the Center.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) Ella Fitzgerald's media fame has been instrumental in her TV exposure.

Perhaps you saw the PBS special "Onward Driven."

She's also done two TV appearances with Frank Sinatra, and those are classics, which are often repeated because of popular demand.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) The audience is trying to recall Ella Fitzgerald to the stage, in the hopes that she will, indeed, perform yet another song.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) And it appears that she will.

- I think I moved some of you.

(audience laughing) (audience cheering) (audience applauding) It is so beautiful and you are.

And you're so beautiful.

I really wanna thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

For some reason, with this kind of weather, my nose stops up.

(bright jazz music) ♪ Oh, the shark has (audience cheering) ♪ Pearly teeth, dear ♪ And it shows them pearly white ♪ ♪ Just a jackknife ♪ Has old MacHeath, dear ♪ And he keeps it, ah, out of sight ♪ ♪ When that shark bites with his teeth, dear ♪ ♪ Scarlet billows start to spread ♪ ♪ Fancy gloves, though, wears old MacHeath, dear ♪ ♪ So there's never the trace, never a trace of red ♪ ♪ Now on the sidewalk ♪ On a Sunday morning ♪ Lies a body oozin' life ♪ Can it be, can it be ♪ Can it be, can it be ♪ Ol' Mackie ♪ Mackie, ol' Mackie the Knife ♪ Oh, Bobby Darin ♪ And Louis Armstrong ♪ Made a record ♪ Oh, what a record of this song ♪ ♪ And now Ella ♪ Ella and her fellas ♪ Making a wreck, a wreck ♪ Such a wreck of this same ol' song ♪ (audience cheering) (audience applauding) ♪ Yes ♪ Singing Mama, oh yes ♪ Ba ba bo zoh ♪ Yeah, yes, yes ♪ Ba ba bo day ♪ Ba ba bo bo day ♪ Ba ba doo doo bo bee ay (audience cheering) ♪ Been a ball ♪ It's been a ball ♪ Yes, it's been a ball ♪ Up here in Maine ♪ For you people here ♪ We'd like to say to you all ♪ Look out, look out, look out, look out ♪ ♪ Holy mackerel, look at all the people out there ♪ ♪ Ol' Mackie, Mackie, Mackie ♪ Mackie back in town ♪ Mackie's back in town, yeah ♪ Ba ba bo day da doh dee doo dah ♪ ♪ Doo dah doo dah doo dah doo doh ♪ ♪ Holy mackerel, look out there ♪ ♪ I said take it (upbeat music) ♪ One more one (upbeat music) (bright jazz music) (audience applauding) ♪ Oh yeah, yeah ♪ Mackie's back in town ♪ All you people here in Maine ♪ We'd like to thank you again ♪ Look out, look out, look out, look out ♪ ♪ Holy mackerel, let's see, look out there ♪ ♪ Here come the jazz ♪ Oh, yes Thank you, folks.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) (audience cheering) (audience applauding) - [Les] Ella Fitzgerald with a bit of "Mack the Knife" including a bit of localization for us in Maine.

(audience cheering) (audience applauding) Jazz guitarist, Joe Pass, along with a trio, composed of pianist Mike Wofford, drummer Earl Palmer and bassist Keter Betts, entertaining a near-capacity audience in the Maine Center of the Arts, the Hutchins Concert Hall.

(audience applauding) We hope you've enjoyed tonight's presentation by MPBN Television and Radio, of a concert by the greatest lady of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald, featuring jazz guitarist Joe Pass and the trio, composed of Mike Wofford, piano, Earl Palmer, drums and Keter Betts, bass.

We have some special people to thank, thank on the staff of MPBN Television and Radio.

The graphics you saw tonight were by Dick Wands, Carol Hillmann, Virginia Lindlof and Keary Nichols.

The Technical Director was Robert Libbey.

Ed Fowler was the Stage Manager.

And the Camera Operators were Earl Allen, Steve Faloon, David Lavender, John Greenman and Steve Dunn.

The Chyron Operator was Brian Tucker, and Dave Roy was the Technical Supervisor for this broadcast.

The Technical Crew were composed of Herb Dean, John Pfleiderer, and Mike Scott.

And the Microwave Engineers were Hal Welch and Paul Bunker.

The Producer and Director of this broadcast was Bernie Roscetti.

We also wanna offer special thanks to Joel Katz of the Maine Center, without whose efforts MPBN would not have been able to have brought you tonight's program, and his staff, Rolf Olsen, Rob Koop, and Steve Carignan.

This is a copyrighted presentation of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network.

I'm Les Myers of MPBN Radio, and we thank you for being with us and good evening.