Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson

Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson is a 1962 (see 1962 in music) studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. This album is one of a pair, the other being Ella Swings Gently with Nelson, that were released in 1962.

This was the first time Fitzgerald and Riddle had worked together since 1959's epic Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook.

Fitzgerald's performance on this album won her the 1963 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female.

Track listing

For the 1962 Verve LP release; Verve MG V-4054

Side One:

1. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) – 3:00
2. "Don't Be That Way" (Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson) – 3:47
3. "Love Me or Leave Me" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 2:49
4. "I Hear Music" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) – 2:19
5. "What Am I Here For?" (Duke Ellington, Frankie Laine) – 2:43
6. "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'" (Ellington, Peggy Lee) – 3:00

Side Two:

1. "I Won't Dance" (Dorothy Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:30
2. "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:37
3. "The Gentleman is a Dope" (Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers) – 3:58
4. "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:55
5. "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:45
6. "Pick Yourself Up" (Fields, Kern) – 2:06

Bonus Tracks; Issued on the 1993 Verve CD re-issue, Verve 519 347-2

13. "Call Me Darling" (Dorothy Dick, Mort Fryberg, Rolf Marbet, Bert Reisfeld) – 2:34

14. "Somebody Loves Me" (Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald) – 2:33

15. "Cheerful Little Earful" (Ira Gershwin, Billy Rose, Warren) – 2:06

• Track 13: Originally issued on 7" single; Verve 10248
• Tracks 14 and 15: Originally issued on the 1959 album Get Happy!; Verve V6-4036

Personnel

Recorded from January 5, 1959–December 27, 1961 Capitol Tower, Hollywood, Los Angeles:

Tracks 1-13

• Ella Fitzgerald - vocals
• Nelson Riddle - arranger, conductor
• Benny Green - liner notes
• Norman Granz - producer

References