Sunshine of Your Love (album)

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Sunshine of Your Love
Sunshine of Your Love cover
Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald
Released 1969
Recorded February, 1969
Genre Jazz
Length 45:33
Label Verve Records
Producer Norman Granz
Professional reviews
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur
(1966)		 Sunshine of your Love
(1969)		 Brighten the Corner
(1967)

Sunshine of Your Love is a live 1969 (see 1969 in music) album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a Big Band arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol and Ernie Heckscher.

This album is another keystone in Ella's many recorded attempts at more 'contemporary' material. Many discs that she cut from her Pre-Verve years were throwaway novelty singles, and her Verve years spent helping others acknowledge the Great American Songbook as a leading musical art form, but this album, recorded at the end of her tenure with Verve, represents the desire that Ella felt to still remain 'hip', in an ever changing musical landscape, ableit one in which she had always had a place.

The album is currently only available as a Japanese import.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Hey Jude" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 3:54
  2. "Sunshine of Your Love" (Pete Brown, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton) – 3:21
  3. "This Girl's in Love With You" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Michel Legrand) – 4:30
  4. "Watch What Happens" (Norman Gimbel, Michel Legrand) – 4:00
  5. "Alright, Okay, You Win" (Mayme Watts, Sidney Wyche) – 3:51
  6. "Give Me the Simple Life" (Rube Bloom) – 2:05
  7. "Inútil Paisagem" ("Useless Landscape") (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ray Gilbert, Aloysio Oliveira) – 5:13
  8. "Old Devil Moon" (Yip Harburg, Burton Lane) – 4:21
  9. "Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" (Illinois Jacquet, Jimmy Mundy, Al Stillman) – 3:37
  10. "A House Is Not a Home" (Bacharach, David) – 4:14
  11. "Trouble Is a Man" (Alec Wilder) – 4:14
  12. "Love You Madly" (Duke Ellington) – 3:04

[edit] Personnel

Recorded February, 1969 at the Venetian Room, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco:

Tracks 1-6 Ernie Hecksher's Big Band

Track 7-12 Tommy Flanagan Trio