Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook
Recorded February 7 – March 27, 1956, Hollywood, Los Angeles
CD Released: 25 May 1999
Label: Verve
Format:[email protected]
This was Fitzgerald's first album for the newly created Verve Records. Fitzgerald's time on the Verve label would see her produce her most highly acclaimed recordings, at the peak of her vocal powers. This album inaugurated Fitzgerald's Songbook series, each of the eight albums in the series focusing on a different composer of the canon known as the Great American Songbook. Fitzgerald's manager, (and the producer of many of her albums), Norman Granz, visited Cole Porter at the Waldolf-Astoria, and played him this entire album. Afterwards, Porter merely remarked, "My, what marvellous diction that girl has".
Frank Devol backs Ella with a 1940s-style big band with enough modernist, Atomic Age elements tossed in to stop it from being just an empty exercise in nostalgia. Fitzgerald finds the perfect marriage between mainstream pop and jazz singing -- her harmonic improvisations are extraordinary. A real treat.
Disc 1:
01. All Through The Night (3:19)
02. Anything Goes (3:24)
03. Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today) (3:03)
04. Too Darn Hot (3:51)
05. In The Still Of The Night (2:41)
06. I Get A Kick Out Of You (4:03)
07. Do I Love You (3:53)
08. Always True To You In My Fashion (2:51)
09. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) (3:35)
10. Just One Of Those Things (3:33)
11. Ev'ry Time We Say Good-Bye (3:35)
12. All Of You (1:46)
13. Begin The Beguine (3:40)
14. Get Out Of Town (3:25)
15. I Am In Love (4:09)
16. From This Moment On (3:17)
Disc 2:
01. I Love Paris (5:02)
02. You Do Something To Me (2:24)
03. Ridin' High (3:24)
04. Easy To Love (3:28 )
05. It's All Right With Me (3:10)
06. Why Can't You Behave (5:07)
07. What Is This Thing Called Love (2:06)
08. You're The Top (3:36)
09. Love For Sale (5:56)
10. It's DeLovely (2:45)
11. Night And Day (3:07)
12. Ace In The Hole (2:01)
13. So In Love (3:53)
14. I've Got You Under My Skin (2:45)
15. I Concentrate On You (3:15)
16. Don't Fence Me In (3:20)
