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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook

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Released
  
1961

Artist
  
Ella Fitzgerald

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genres
  
Jazz, Vocal jazz

Length
  
43:00

Release date
  
1961

Label
  
Verve Records

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Recorded
  
August 1, 1960 - January 14, 1961

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook (1961)
  
Ella in Hollywood (1961)

Similar
  
Ella Fitzgerald albums, Jazz albums

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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook is a 1961 (see 1961 in music) album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Billy May. This album marked the only time that Fitzgerald worked with May.

Contents

The Harold Arlen Songbook is the sixth album in Fitzgerald's series of recordings of songs written by the pantheon of Broadway composers who formed the body of work now considered the Great American Songbook.

The cover art is a drawing by Henri Matisse.

Track listing

For the 2-LP set originally released on the Verve label in 1961: Verve MG V-4046-2

Side One:

  1. "Blues in the Night" (Johnny Mercer) – 7:14
  2. "Let's Fall in Love" (Ted Koehler) – 4:05
  3. "Stormy Weather" (Koehler) – 5:17
  4. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Koehler) – 2:26
  5. "My Shining Hour" (Mercer) – 4:02
  6. "Hooray for Love" (Leo Robin) – 2:45

Side Two:

  1. "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Mercer) – 4:39
  2. "That Old Black Magic" (Mercer) – 4:13
  3. "I've Got the World on a String" (Koehler) – 4:54
  4. "Let's Take a Walk Around the Block" (Ira Gershwin, E.Y. Harburg) – 4:03
  5. "Ill Wind" (Koehler) – 3:55
  6. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Mercer) – 3:37

Side Three:

  1. "When the Sun Comes Out" (Koehler) – 5:10
  2. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Mercer) – 3:24
  3. "As Long as I Live" (Koehler) – 3:48
  4. "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" (Harburg) – 3:30
  5. "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Harburg, Billy Rose) – 3:37
  6. "The Man That Got Away" (Gershwin) – 5:21

Side Four:

  1. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Mercer) – 3:58
  2. "It Was Written in the Stars" (Robin) – 5:11
  3. "Get Happy" (Koehler) – 3:33
  4. "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (Koehler) – 5:12
  5. "Out of This World" (Mercer) – 2:46
  6. "Over the Rainbow" (Harburg) – 4:21

First 2CD re-issue in 1988 added two previously unreleased bonus tracks; Both were included on the 2001 re-issue. Disc One:

4. "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" (Harburg) – 3:19

Disc Two:

12. "Sing My Heart" (Koehler) – 2:49

Bonus tracks issued on the 2001 Verve 2CD Reissue, 589108.

27. "Let's Take a Walk Around the Block" (Alternative take) – 4:07

28. "Sing My Heart" (Alternative take) – 2:32

All songs composed by Harold Arlen, with lyricists indicated.

Personnel

Recorded in five sessions from August 1, 1960 – July 14, 1961 in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

  • Ella Fitzgerald – Vocals
  • Billy May – Arranger, conductor
    • Orchestra
  • Trumpet – Don Fagerquist, Frank Beach, Conrad Gozzo, Joseph Tiscari
  • Trombone – Milt Bernhart Edward Kusby, Richard Noel
  • Bass trombone – George Roberts
  • Alto saxophone – Benny Carter
  • Tenor saxophone – Plas Johnson
  • Woodwind, flute – Harry Klee, Justin Gordon, Wilbur Schwartz
  • Vibraphone – Emil Richards
  • Piano – Paul Smith
  • Guitar – John Collins
  • Double bass – Joe Mondragon
  • Drums – Alvin Stoller
  • String section
  • Violin – Israel Baker, Victor Arno, Victor Bay, Alex Beller, Dan Lube, Erno Neufeld, Lou Raderman, Nathan Ross, Sidney Sharp, Gerald Vinci
  • Viola – Alex Neimann, Paul Robyn, Barbara Simons
  • Cello – Armand Kaproff, Ray Kramer Eleanor Slatkin
  • Norman Granz - Production
  • Val Valentin - Engineer

    • Songs

    1Blues in the Night7:15
    2Let's Fall in Love4:06
    3Stormy Weather5:16

    References

    Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook Wikipedia
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