Whisper Not

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Whisper Not
Whisper Not cover
Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald
Released 1967
Recorded July 20, 1966
Genre Jazz
Length 46:48
Label Verve Records
Producer Norman Granz
Professional reviews
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Ella in Hamburg
(1966)		 Whisper Not
(1967)		 Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur
(1967)

Whisper Not is a 1967 (see 1967 in music) studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with the Marty Paich Orchestra. Ella had previously recorded with Marty Paich and his more familiar Dek-tette on the 1957 (see 1957 in music) album Ella Swings Lightly.

'Whisper Not' is Ella's penultimate recording for the Verve label. Her 11 years on the Verve label had seen her make her most acclaimed recordings, critically and commercially. The jazz critic Will Friedwald described her Pre-Verve work on Decca as 'Seeming a mere prelude', and her 'Post-Verve years as an afterthought'.

[edit] Track listing

  1. “Sweet Georgia Brown” (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) – 3:30
  2. “Whisper Not” (Benny Golson, Leonard Feather) – 2:59
  3. “I Said No” (Frank Loesser, Jule Styne) – 3:59
  4. “Thanks for the Memory” (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 3:59
  5. “Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most” (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 3:46
  6. “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” Traditional – 2:16
  7. “Time After Time” (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:26
  8. “You've Changed” (Carl Fischer, Bill Carey) – 3:15
  9. “I've Got Your Number” (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 3:11
  10. “Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)” (Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Davis, Jimmy Sherman) – 4:18
  11. “Wives and Lovers” (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 2:21
  12. “Matchmaker” (From the musical Fiddler on the Roof)” (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick) – 2:45

[edit] Personnel

Recorded July 20, 1966 at United Western Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles:

  • Val Valentin - Engineer

Tracks 3-6

Others Unknown.

Tracks 1-2, 7-12

Others Unknown.