Ellington's singers fit into similar patterns: where some of these voices were so unique it's impossible to imagine them working in any other context, he also employed a succession of straight-ahead female singers who sounded like they could be at home in any decent swing band: After Joya Sherrill, the band also employed Dolores Parker, most famously on the most successful ballad from Ellington's major broadway score Beggar's Holiday (a tune recently revived by Ellington buff Bobby Short). Though exotically appellated, Yvonne Lanauze fits the straight-down-the-middle pattern on the medium bouncer "Love You Madly," in which the Ducal one attempted to turn one of his pet phrases into a pop hit.
