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Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald - Love Is Here To Stay

Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald - Love Is Here To Stay
  • Composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin
  • First performed by Kenny Baker in The Goldwyn Follies
  • Released October 1957

"Love Is Here to Stay" was the last musical composition George Gershwin completed before his death on July 11, 1937. Ira Gershwin wrote the lyrics after George's death as a tribute to his brother. "


All children are musical—they are born musical, and are keenly aware of sounds around them. Let’s begin with a journey from the perspective of the child—a very young child at the beginning of life. What does the child experience? What does he or she hear? Inside the womb, the baby hears the mother’s heartbeat, the rushing sound of amniotic fluid and the mother’s voice. From outside, the baby hears language and music, mostly low sound waves from bass instruments and loud noises. Because the visual sense is not viable at this point, the auditory senses are primary, and hearing is the most keenly developed of all of the fetal senses. Hearing develops from about 19 to 26 weeks of the pregnancy when the inner ear matures, and babies respond to voices and classical music by turning towards it and relaxing. They respond to loud noises as well by kicking, and curl up and turn away from loud rock or pop music. 

The brain is wired for music and language... Music making and artistic endeavors represent the heart of a culture, and are part of each culture’s core identity: not only what makes us human, but also what makes each group of us unique. In the U.S., unique genres of music that are part of our cultural fabric have developed over the centuries. The melting pot that is America has yielded brand new genres such as big band, jazz, blues, rock and roll, etc. Blends of European, Caribbean, and African-American people combined in a way like that of no other culture. In America, all of the music we currently know today is derived from the musical genres that came before us. All children are born into that musical environment and pick up the musical repertoire and vocabulary around them.
Source: Music and the Child by Natalie Sarrazin


Frazey Ford - One More Cup Of Coffee
  • Written by Bob Dylan English January 5, 1976
  • From the album Obadiah July 2010

"Frazey Ford focused on performing soul for Obadiah. The album takes its name from her middle name "Obadiah". She has said that the album relates to an emotional time she had with her family."

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