Let's Call the Whole Thing Off - 1930s Standards - MP3 instrumental karaoke

The 1930s was a fertile period for popular music, weathering the tide of big band music, jazz, and other distinctly American styles. Several famous female vocalists kickstarted their careers as jazz singers in the 1930s, including Ella Fitzgerald (1918–1996) and Billie Holiday (1915–1959). Written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin for the 1937 film Shall We Dance and brought off the page by dance duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the song was revisited twenty years later by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" is a jazz standard of the highest order. "Things have come to a pretty pass / Our romance is growing flat / For you like this and the other / While I go for this and that / Goodness knows what the end will be / Oh I don't know where I'm at / It looks as if we two will never be one / Something must be done," begins Ella Fitzgerald on a tune that has traversed the ages to pop up on modern TV shows like The Simpsons.