B. that there are some sort of corny moments on the CD But it's Christmas you know Christmas is a little corny after all Right [MUSIC] HORWTIZ: You think of an office party people drinking punch or something like that That's sort of what this record is like What saves it from being truly corny is the fact that it swings all the time and Ella herself I mean she's just got that great sound To me her voice defines what America sounds like [MUSIC] SPELLMAN: That was "The Christmas Song" from Ella Fitzgerald's Wishes You A Swinging Christmas You'll find it on the Verve label And we suggest that you add it to your NPR Basic Jazz Record Library For NPR Jazz I'm AB Spellman HORWITZ: And I'm Murray Horwitz SPELLMAN & HORWITZ: Merry Christmas! you don't hear any Christmas carols. N. and finally . and as the jazz musicians say, Concert by the Sea,: the cradle of the man-with-guitar country blues that had replaced her theatrical kind. For all the acclaim she still gets, He says he was born into a wealthy family, his wealthy father remarried.