Ella Fitzgerald is known as the “First lady of Jazz,” working with such Jazz giants as Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. Before her rise to fame she was a lookout for a brothel and ran numbers. But winning an amateur singing contest at the Apollo Theater was her turning point. Of her many records, a dozen of them are each worth up to $100.00 or more like her 1950 “Souvenir Album” on Decca Records and the 1951 “Ella Sings Gershwin” album on Decca.