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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book

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Released
  
1956

Length
  
114:23

Artist
  
Ella Fitzgerald

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Awards
  
Grammy Hall of Fame

Recorded
  
August 21–31, 1956

Label
  
Verve

Release date
  
1956

Genre
  
Jazz


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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book is a 1956 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

Contents

This album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."

Track listing

For the 1956 Verve 2-LP album, Verve MG V-4002-2

Side one:

  1. "Have You Met Miss Jones?" – 3:41
  2. "You Took Advantage of Me" – 3:27
  3. "A Ship Without a Sail" – 4:07
  4. "To Keep My Love Alive" – 3:34
  5. "Dancing on the Ceiling" – 4:06
  6. "The Lady Is a Tramp" – 3:21
  7. "With a Song in My Heart" – 2:44
  8. "Manhattan" – 2:48

Side two:

  1. "Johnny One Note" – 2:12
  2. "I Wish I Were in Love Again" – 2:36
  3. "Spring Is Here" – 3:38
  4. "It Never Entered My Mind" – 4:06
  5. "This Can't Be Love" – 2:54
  6. "Thou Swell" – 2:03
  7. "My Romance" – 3:42
  8. "Where or When" – 2:46
  9. "Little Girl Blue" – 3:53

Side three:

  1. "Give It Back to the Indians" – 3:10
  2. "Ten Cents a Dance" – 4:06
  3. "There's a Small Hotel" – 2:48
  4. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" – 3:46
  5. "Ev'rything I've Got" – 3:21
  6. "I Could Write a Book" – 3:38
  7. "The Blue Room" – 2:29
  8. "My Funny Valentine" – 3:52

Side four:

  1. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" – 7:01
  2. "Mountain Greenery" – 2:13
  3. "Wait Till You See Him" – 1:30
  4. "Lover" (Stereo Take) – 3:16
  5. "Isn't It Romantic?" – 3:00
  6. "Here in My Arms" – 1:52
  7. "Blue Moon" – 3:11
  8. "My Heart Stood Still" – 3:02
  9. "I've Got Five Dollars" – 2:39

Bonus track; Issued on disc two of 2009 the Verve 2CD Reissue, Verve 314-5372582

18 "Lover" (Alternative mono take) – 3:15

2012: Verve also released an audiophile, downloadable version of the LP in up to 192 kHz/24 bit lossless FLAC quality.

All songs composed by Richard Rodgers and all lyrics written by Lorenz Hart.

Personnel

  • Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals
  • Buddy Bregman - Arranger, Conductor.

    • Liner notes by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, William Simon and Norman Granz.

    Songs

    1Give It Back to the Indians3:10
    2Ten Cents a Dance4:06
    3There's a Small Hotel2:48

    References

    Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book Wikipedia
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