Just Because Music — Ella Fitzgerald sings Johnny Mercer’s “I remember you”

I just love this song.  I think it has the most beautiful lyrics ever written for an American love song — and who better to do it justice than Ella Fitzgerald?

Honestly, what can be better than this?

I remember, too, a distant bell
And stars that fell,
Like rain out of the blue

When my life is through
And the angels ask to me recall
The thrill of it all,
Then I shall tell them I remember you.

And here’s a luscious bonus version from Nat King Cole: