Track Listing
DISC 1: BEST OF THE SONGBOOKS: THE COLLECTION:
1. Something's Gotta Give
2. Love Is Here to Stay
3. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
4. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
5. Lady Is a Tramp, The
6. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
7. Miss Otis Regrets
8. 'S Wonderful
9. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
10. Love For Sale
11. They Can't Take That Away From Me
12. Midnight Sun
13. Hooray For Love
14. Why Was I Born?
15. Cotton Tail
16. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
DISC 2: BEST OF THE SONGBOOKS: THE COLLECTION:
1. Oh, Lady, Be Good!
2. I'm Old Fashioned
3. Laura
4. Daydream
5. Easy to Love
6. It Was Written in the Stars
7. How Long Has This Been Going On?
8. Let's Begin
9. Now It Can Be Told
10. There's a Small Hotel
11. Do Nothing till You Hear From Me
12. Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)
13. You're Laughing at Me
14. Ship Without a Sail, A
15. Trav'lin' Light
16. This Time the Dream's on Me
DISC 3: BEST OF THE SONGBOOKS: THE COLLECTION:
1. From This Moment On
2. Solitude
3. Love You Madly
4. All the Things You Are
5. I Concentrate on You
6. Out of This World
7. How About Me?
8. I'm Beginning to See the Light
9. Man I Love, The
10. I Remember You
11. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
12. Always
13. Just One of Those Things
14. Prelude to a Kiss
15. All Too Soon
16. Lover
| Details | | Playing Time: | 182 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Barney Kessel, Ben Webster, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Herb Ellis, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Stuff Smith | | Producer: | Norman Granz | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); The Duke Ellington Orchestra; Buddy Bregman's Orchestra; Nelson Riddle's Orchestra; Billy May's Orchestra; Paul Weston's Orchestra; Ben Webster (tenor saxophone); Stuff Smith (violin); Oscar Peterson, Paul Smith (piano); Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis (guitar); Joe Mondragon, Ray Brown (bass); Alvin Stoller (drums).
Recorded between 1956 and 1964. Includes liner notes by Bret Primack, Geoffrey Mark Fidelman and James Gavin.
For eight years, between 1956 and 1964, Ella Fitzgerald teamed with legendary producer Norman Granz to record a number of albums paying tribute to such noted songwriters as Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Howard Arlen, and the team of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Collectively known as "the songbooks," these recordings are one of the cornerstones of Fitzgerald's legend as an interpretive songwriter, and the sumptuous three-disc box set BEST OF THE SONGBOOKS brings the most exciting and important of those recordings to a new audience.
Dispensing with the single-author focus of the original albums, BEST OF THE SONGBOOKS mixes and matches songwriters across the 48 tracks. Many of the songs here are oft-covered standards, and some of Fitzgerald's performances are definitive, such as her treatments of Rodgers and Hart's "Lover" or Ellington's "Prelude to a Kiss." It's the lesser-known songs, however, that hint at greater treasures to be discovered in these songwriters' oeuvres.
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