Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook

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Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald

Publication
(s)

1956

Label (s) Verve Records

Format (s)

CD, DVD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

32 LP, 35 CD

running time

118: 27

occupation
  • Trumpet: Conrad Gozzo
  • Trumpet: Joe Howard
  • Cello : Robert LaMarchina
  • Cello: Edgar Lustgarten

production

Norman Granz

Studio (s)

Capital Studios, Hollywood

chronology
Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues
(1955) 		Sings the Cole Porter Songbook Ella and Louis
(1956)

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book is a 1956 published Jazz - album of Ella Fitzgerald with songs by Cole Porter .

background

It was Ella Fitzgerald's first album for the label Verve Records, newly founded by Norman Granz . The recordings were made in February and March 1956 in the Capitol Studios in Hollywood . Buddy Bregman arranged the tracks and conducted the studio orchestra.

The album opened the Songbook series of a total of eight albums with songs by various composers, which are collectively known as the Great American Songbook and earned Fitzgerald the title First Lady of Song .

Norman Granz, who was Fitzgerald's manager and producer of many of her albums, visited Cole Porter at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and played him the entire album. Porter just said: My, what marvelous diction that girl has . By choosing Cole Porter as the entry into the Songbook series, audiences became aware of both Porter as a source of great music and Ella Fitzgerald's inexhaustible vocal resources.

The album was inscribed in 2003 as one of 50 albums on the National Library of Congress Recordings Register , a list of recordings of cultural, historical, or aesthetic value and ties to the United States.

reception

Zac Johnson rated the album positively on Allmusic:

"This collection is one of those rare albums that can be treated as a terrific introduction to a classic artist, as well as remaining a treasured recording for the most scholarly jazz aficionados."

"This collection is one of those rare albums that can be viewed as an excellent introduction to a classical artist as well as a coveted recording for the most learned jazz lover."

Rolling Stone magazine voted the album at number 87 in 2013 in its list of The 100 Best Jazz Albums .

Track list

(on CD released in 1997 by Verve Records)

Disk one
  1. All Through the Night - 3:15
  2. Anything Goes - 3:21
  3. Miss Otis Regrets - 3:00
  4. Too Darn Hot - 3:47
  5. In the Still of the Night - 2:38
  6. I Get a Kick Out of You - 4:00
  7. Do I Love You? - 3:50
  8. Always True to You in My Fashion - 2:48
  9. Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love - 3:32
  10. Just One of Those Things - 3:30
  11. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - 3:32
  12. All of You - 1:43
  13. Begin the Beguine - 3:37
  14. Get Out of Town - 3:22
  15. I Am in Love - 4:06
  16. From This Moment On - 3:17
Disk two
  1. I Love Paris - 4:57
  2. You Do Something To Me - 2:21
  3. Ridin 'High - 3:20
  4. Easy to Love - 3:24
  5. It's All Right with Me - 3:07
  6. Why Can't You Behave? - 5:04
  7. What Is This Thing Called Love? - 2:02
  8. You're the Top - 3:33
  9. Love for Sale - 5:52
  10. It's De-Lovely - 2:42
  11. Night and Day - 3:04
  12. Ace in the Hole - 1:58
  13. So in Love - 3:50
  14. I've Got You Under My Skin - 2:42
  15. I Concentrate on You - 3:11
  16. Don't Fence Me In - 3:19
  17. You're the Top - 2:08 (not on the 1956 LP )
  18. I Concentrate on You - 3:00 (not on the 1956 LP)
  19. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) - 5:25 (not on the 1956 LP)

All songs were composed by Cole Porter, lyrics for track 16, disc two by Robert Fletcher

Web links

Commons : Cole Porter  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Ella Fitzgerald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book. Retrieved April 5, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Jazz Albums . Retrieved November 16, 2016.