StreetcredMusic. Two Songs About Getting High, Ninety Years Apart. Ella Fitzgerald and Brandy Clark

Written in 1936 by Marion Sunshine (Marian Tunstall Ljames) 1894-1963.

A live stage and early screen actress and songwriter. 

She was a member of the Ziegfeld Follies, 1922/23

She translated to English the first million selling Latin tune, Peanut Vendor. The hit from Cuban bandleader Don Azpianzu. She thus became know as "The Rumba Lady"

Here is: "When I Get Low I Get High"

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Brandy Clark, songwriter from Morto, Washington.

Six time Grammy nominee  

Here is "Get High"

 

Though Clark sells a lot of "Get High" merchandise, she said the song "was never about pot." She explained: "It was just the vehicle to tell the story; it was more about escapism and how one woman escapes her life, the parts of her life that are too hard to deal with."

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