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Ella Obit

NPR
Published June 15, 1996 at 12:00 AM EDT

- Jazz great Ella Fitzergald - America's "First Lady of Song" - died today. She was 78 years old. Fitzgerald had been in declining health for years. Howard Mandel (Howard MAN-duhl) reports.

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