Track Listing
1. Rough Ridin'
2. Broadway
3. You Can Depend on Me
4. Runnin' Wild
5. Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World
6. I'll Always Be in Love With You
7. Hallelujah, I Love Him So - (mono)
8. I Can't Face the Music
9. No Moon at All
10. Laughin' on the Outside (Crying on the Inside)
11. After You've Gone
12. Taking a Chance on Love - (previously unreleased)
13. If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) - (previously unreleased)
| Details | | Playing Time: | 41 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Bill Doggett, Hank Jones, Kai Winding, Mundell Lowe, Phil Woods, Taft Jordan | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This 1999 reissue contains two bonus tracks not included on the original release.
Personnel: Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Bill Doggett (conductor, arranger, organ); Phil Woods, Jerry Dodgion, Carl Davis, Wilmer Shakesnider, Les Taylor (reeds); Ray Copeland, Taft Jordan, Ernie Royal, Joe Wilder (trumpet); Melba Liston, Kai Winding, Britt Woodman (trombone); Hank Jones (piano); Mundell Lowe (guitar); George Duvivier, Lucille Dixon (bass); Gus Johnson (drums).
Producer: Norman Granz.
Reissue producers: Bryan Koniarz, Jerry Rappaport.
Recorded at Webster Hall, New York, New York on January 30 & 31, 1962. Originally relesed on Verve (4056). Includes liner notes by Benny Green.
Digitally remastered by Kevin Reeves (Polygram Studio).
This is part of Verve's Verve By Request series.
Personnel: Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Mundell Lowe (guitar); Phil Woods (reeds); Ernie Royal, Joe Wilder, Taft Jordan (trumpet); Kai Winding, Melba Liston (trombone); Hank Jones (piano); Bill Doggett (organ); Gus Johnson (drums).
Liner Note Author: Benny Green.
Recording information: Webster Hall, New York, NY (01/30/1962-01/31/1962).
Editor: Deborah Hay.
Photographer: Lee Friedlander.
Arranger: Bill Doggett.
Ella Fitzgerald recorded countless albums for Verve in '50s and the '60s, almost all of them good. One would have thought too that they would all be reissued on CD by now. But Verve has managed to find a couple of rare Ella titles for its connoisseur By Request series, one of which is this Basie-like hard-swinging session with the R&B organist Bill Doggett of "Honky Tonk Pt. 2" fame. The early '60s were a good time for Fitzgerald. The monumental achievement of the Verve Songbooks was behind her and she could relax and enjoy her success.
Not that she is coasting here. On the contrary, her vocal powers were at a peak in 1962 and she commands the large orchestra with ease and authority. Doggett arranges and conducts as a jazzman on this date so RHYTHM IS MY BUSINESS isn't quite the Ray Charles-like affair one might be led to expect. Ella just wasn't that kind of singer. But no singer before or since has swung so effortlessly and with such, yes, verve.
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