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"Air Mail Special" is a 1941 jazz standard written by Benny Goodman, James Mundy and Charlie Christian. [1] Jazz fans know it best as a vehicle for the virtuoso scat singing of Ella Fitzgerald; her memorable take at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival is representative.

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  1. ^ "Air Mail Special". Jazzstandards.com. Retrieved 12 December 2012.