50 years ago, Ella Fitzgerald covered the Beatles

Today's Morning Edition music is from 50 years ago this week, when the first cover version of a Beatles song made it onto the charts. "Money can't buy me love" charted in the United Kingdom and it was performed by one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, Ella Fitzgerald.

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