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Singer Ella Fitzgerald is surrounded by young fans after her concert yesterday in the Royal York Hotel for 1,000 children from inner-city schools. The(...)
Singer Ella Fitzgerald is surrounded by young fans after her concert yesterday in the Royal York Hotel for 1,000 children from inner-city schools. The(...)

Singer Ella Fitzgerald is surrounded by young fans after her concert yesterday in the Royal York Hotel for 1,000 children from inner-city schools. The(...)

Date1/29/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: Singer Ella Fitzgerald is surrounded by young fans after her concert yesterday in the Royal York Hotel for 1;000 children from inner-city schools. The great singer of ballads tailored her songs to the children's taste and their roars of approval were ear-shattering. Pianist Oscar Peterson introduced her.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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      Object NumberTSPA_0047277F
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      Ella Fitzgerald: Always working, she sings for 1,000 children here Monday
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      11/7/1969
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      Ella Fitzgerald steps down from the stage to meet the wide-eyed children in her audience
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      Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996
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      Lauper, Cyndi, 1953-
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      Ella Fitzgerald promised to sing easy and understandable music last night at Massey Hall concert with Toronto Symphony, and she did. The orchestra pro(...)
      Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996
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      Young fans of the Queen sit on the curb near the Royal York Hotel, waving canadian flags and Union Jacks as she left, in the Ontario landau, for Queen(...)
      Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, 1900-2002
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