ELLA FITZGERALD COLE PORTER SONGBOOK SERIES

Personnel adapted from the liner notes of CD reissue.

'Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love' (Alternative take) – 5:25.

'I Concentrate on You' (Alternative take) – 3:00.

'You're the Top' (Alternative take) – 2:08.

' Don't Fence Me In' – 3:19 ( Robert Fletcher, co-lyricist)ġ997 reissue, previously unreleased bonus tracks.

' What Is This Thing Called Love?' – 2:02.

' Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love' – 3:32.

' Always True to You in My Fashion' – 2:48.

Track listing Īll tracks written by Cole Porter, except when noted. In 2000 it was voted number 490 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. This album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have 'qualitative or historical significance.' In 2003, it was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. Afterwards, Porter merely remarked, 'My, what marvelous diction that girl has.' Legacy and achievements The album was recorded February 7–9 and March 27, 1956, in Hollywood, Los Angeles.įitzgerald's manager, and the producer of many of her albums, Norman Granz, visited Cole Porter at the Waldorf-Astoria and played him this entire album.

ELLA FITZGERALD COLE PORTER SONGBOOK SERIES

This album inaugurated Fitzgerald's Song Book series, each of the eight albums in the series focusing on a different composer of the canon known as the Great American Songbook. įitzgerald's time on the Verve label would see her produce her most highly acclaimed recordings, at the peak of her vocal powers. The trick was to change the backing enough so that, here and there, there would be signs of jazz. I envisaged her doing a lot of composers. So I proposed to Ella that the first Verve album would not be a jazz project, but rather a song book of the works of Cole Porter. I was interested in how I could enhance Ella’s position, to make her a singer with more than just a cult following amongst jazz fans. Granz decided to have Fitzgerald record well-established popular works because This was Fitzgerald's first album for the newly created Verve Records (and the first album to be released by the label). And nobody did it better.Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song BookĮlla Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book is a 1956 studio double album by American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs of Cole Porter. But Cole Porter did it all - words and music. and that's just scratching the surface of his amazing output.Īs you listen to Cole Porter, and perhaps compare him to the other great Tin Pan Alley songwriters who were his contemporaries, remember that most of those songwriters worked in teams - Rodgers and Hammerstein, George and Ira Gershwin, and Lerner and Loewe, to name a few.

And why not? Along with the songs represented in this list, some of his other works include 'Begin the Beguine,' 'Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye,' 'You're the Top,' 'I Get a Kick Out of You,' 'Easy to Love,' 'Miss Otis Regrets,' 'I've Got You Under My Skin'. Jazz artists are still exploring Cole Porter today. Instrumentalists love his elegant melodies and sophisticated song structures.ĭuring the three decades of Porter's greatest productivity - the late 1920s through the late '50s - jazz musicians would latch on to the latest Porter songs from his Broadway shows or Hollywood musicals and turn them into jazz standards almost immediately. Singers love his lyrics, which contain great wit, amazing rhymes and beautiful imagery. But most jazz musicians really love Cole Porter. Cole Porter contributed many songs to the Great American Songbook, including 'I've Got You Under My Skin' and 'I Get a Kick Out of You.'Įverybody loves Cole Porter.

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