Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook

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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook cover
Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald
Released 1958
Recorded March 13 - March 19, 1958
Genre Jazz
Length 46:48
Label Verve Records
Producer Norman Granz
Professional reviews
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Ella Swings Lightly
(1958)		 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook
(1958)		 Ella in Rome
(1958)

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook is a 1958 (see 1958 in music) album by the American Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Paul Weston, focusing on the songs of Irving Berlin.

At the Grammy Awards of 1959 Fitzgerald won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female and the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo. The album was additionally nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

[edit] Track listing for the 2000 Verve CD Reissue 830533-2

  1. "Let's Face the Music and Dance" – 2:57
  2. "You're Laughing at Me" – 3:18
  3. "Let Yourself Go" – 2:20
  4. "You Can Have Him" – 3:47
  5. "Russian Lullaby" – 1:55
  6. "Puttin' on the Ritz" – 2:18
  7. "Get Thee Behind Me Satan" – 3:49
  8. "Alexander's Ragtime Band" – 2:43
  9. "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" – 2:36
  10. "How About Me?" – 3:17
  11. "Cheek to Cheek" – 3:48
  12. "I Used to Be Color Blind" – 2:34
  13. "Lazy" – 2:40
  14. "How Deep Is the Ocean?" – 3:11
  15. "All by Myself" – 2:29
  16. "Remember" – 3:26

Disc Two

  1. "Supper Time" – 3:19
  2. "How's Chances?" – 2:48
  3. "Heat Wave" – 2:25
  4. "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" – 3:29
  5. "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song" – 3:35
  6. "Reaching for the Moon" – 2:18
  7. "Slumming on Park Avenue" – 2:24
  8. "The Song is Ended (but the Melody Lingers On)" (lyrics by Beda Loehner) – 2:30
  9. "I'm Putting all My Eggs in One Basket" – 3:01
  10. "Now it Can Be Told" – 3:12
  11. "Always" – 3:09
  12. "It's a Lovely Day Today" – 2:28
  13. "Change Partners" – 3:18
  14. "No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)" – 3:03
  15. "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" – 3:00
  16. "Blue Skies" – 3:43

All music and lyrics composed by Irving Berlin.

[edit] Personnel

Recorded March 13 - 19, 1958, Hollywood, Los Angeles:

[edit] External links

The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks
Cole Porter (1956) | Rodgers and Hart (1956) | Duke Ellington (1957) | Irving Berlin (1958) | George and Ira Gershwin (1959) | Harold Arlen (1961) | Jerome Kern (1963) | Johnny Mercer (1964)