Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook

Infobox Album | Name = Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook
Type = Album
Artist = Ella Fitzgerald

| Released = 1958
Recorded = March 13 - March 191958
Genre = Jazz
Length = 46:48
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Norman Granz
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rxkziknabb69 link] | Last album = "Ella Swings Lightly"
(1958)
This album = " Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook "
(1958)
Next album = ""
(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 (for the Irving Berlin songbook) and the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo (for her Duke Ellington songbook). The album was additionally nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

Track listing for the 2000 Verve CD Reissue 830533-2

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

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

All music and lyrics composed by Irving Berlin.

Personnel

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

* Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals
* Paul Weston - Arranger, Conductor.

External links

* [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=6942 Review from allaboutjazz.com]


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