Recorded1956 - 1957 Release date20 May 1997 LabelVerve Records
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The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve is a 1997 compilation album of the recordings made by the American jazz musicians Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, on the Verve label, between 1956 and 1957.
The 47 tracks are collated from the three studio albums they recorded together, and two of the tracks (Tracks 15 and 16 on Disc Two) are from a 1957 concert at the Hollywood Bowl.
The three albums are:
Ella and Louis (1956)
Ella and Louis Again (1957)
Porgy and Bess (1958)
Track listing
Disc One
"Can't We Be Friends?" (Paul James, Kay Swift) – 3:48
"Isn't This a Lovely Day?" (Irving Berlin) – 6:17
"Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 3:43
"They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:40
"Under a Blanket of Blue" (Jerry Livingston, Al J. Neiburg, Marty Symes) – 4:19
"Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 5:09
"A Foggy Day" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 4:34
"Stars Fell on Alabama" (Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins) – 3:36
"Cheek to Cheek" (Berlin) – 5:55
"The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 5:43
"April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg) – 6:37
"Don't Be That Way" (Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson) – 5:01