Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book

by Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1956
  • Label: Verve
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:52:54
  • Community rating: 4.17/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing her monumental series dedicated to foundational American composers, the First Lady of Song explores the immensely sophisticated, often melancholic repertoire of the legendary songwriting duo. Buddy Bregman provides elegant, appropriately restrained string orchestrations that perfectly frame the vocalist's impeccable diction and incredibly smooth, rhythmically agile phrasing. The massive double-album project definitively elevated classic theater pop to the realm of serious artistic interpretation.

Genres

Descriptors: conscious, orchestral, sophisticated, piano, strings

Tracklist

  1. Have You Met Miss Jones? (3:45)
  2. You Took Advantage Of Me (3:28)
  3. A Ship Without A Sail (4:10)
  4. To Keep My Love Alive (3:36)
  5. Dancing On The Ceiling (4:08)
  6. The Lady Is A Tramp (3:24)
  7. With A Song In My Heart (2:46)
  8. Manhattan (2:53)
  9. Johnny One Note (2:14)
  10. I Wish I Were In Love Again (2:39)
  11. Spring Is Here (3:41)
  12. It Never Entered My Mind (4:08)
  13. This Can't Be Love (2:57)
  14. Thou Swell (2:05)
  15. My Romance (3:45)
  16. Where Or When (2:49)
  17. Little Girl Blue (3:59)
  18. Give It Back To The Indians (3:11)
  19. Ten Cents A Dance (4:08)
  20. There's A Small Hotel (3:30)
  21. I Didn't Know What Time It Was (3:48)
  22. Ev'rything I've Got (3:23)
  23. I Could Write A Book (3:40)
  24. The Blue Room (2:31)
  25. My Funny Valentine (3:57)
  26. Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered (7:02)
  27. Mountain Greenery (2:15)
  28. Wait Till You See Her (1:31)
  29. Lover (3:17)
  30. Isn't It Romantic? (3:03)
  31. Here In My Arms (1:54)
  32. Blue Moon (3:14)
  33. My Heart Stood Still (3:05)
  34. I've Got Five Dollars (2:42)

Credits

  • Busta Flex - primary artist, lyrics by
  • Zoxea - music by
  • Carlos Bess - music by

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