Released 1962 Release date 1962 | Length 42:42 | |
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Recorded November 13–15, December 27, 1961 Awards Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Similar Ella Fitzgerald albums, Jazz albums |
Ella fitzgerald pick yourself up ella swings brightly with nelson
Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson is a 1962 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by an orchestra arranged by Nelson Riddle.
Contents
- Ella fitzgerald pick yourself up ella swings brightly with nelson
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- Track listing
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
This album is one of a pair that Fitzgerald and Riddle recorded and released in 1962, the other being Ella Swings Gently with Nelson. Fitzgerald and Riddle had last worked together on her 1959 album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook.
Fitzgerald's performance on this album won her the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female at the 5th Annual Grammy Awards, this was Fitzgerald's seventh Grammy.
Ella fitzgerald don t be that way ella swings brightly with nelson re uploaded
Track listing
For the 1962 Verve LP release; Verve MG V-4054
Side One:
- "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) – 3:00
- "Don't Be That Way" (Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson) – 3:47
- "Love Me or Leave Me" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 2:49
- "I Hear Music" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) – 2:19
- "What Am I Here For?" (Duke Ellington, Frankie Laine) – 2:43
- "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'" (Ellington, Peggy Lee) – 3:00
Side Two:
- "I Won't Dance" (Dorothy Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:30
- "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:37
- "The Gentleman is a Dope" (Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers) – 3:58
- "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:55
- "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:45
- "Pick Yourself Up" (Fields, Kern) – 2:06
Bonus Tracks; Issued on the 1993 Verve CD re-issue, Verve 519 347-2
13. "Call Me Darling" (Dorothy Dick, Mort Fryberg, Rolf Marbet, Bert Reisfeld) – 2:34
14. "Somebody Loves Me" (Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald) – 2:33
15. "Cheerful Little Earful" (Ira Gershwin, Billy Rose, Warren) – 2:06
Personnel
Recorded from January 5, 1959 – December 27, 1961 Capitol Tower, Hollywood, Los Angeles:
Songs
1When Your Lover Has Gone3:01
2Don't Be That Way3:50
3Love Me or Leave Me2:53