Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series, 2LP Vinyl)

The second of her celebrated song book albums and heralded as one of the best vocal jazz albums ever made, Ella and arranger/conductor Buddy Bregman began work on the Rodgers and Hart sessions three months after the release of her Cole Porter Song Book. Like its predecessor, it features the cream of West Coast session musicians, many of whom graced the fabulous recordings that Frank Sinatra was making around the same time in the same studio. Maynard Ferguson (trumpet), Milt Bernhart (trombone), Herb Geller, Ted Nash & Bud Shank (reeds), Barney Kessel (guitar), and Alvin Stoller (drums).

The album is full of standards that everyone knows and loves, but in Ella's hands these songs become even more special. Standouts include "There's a Small Hotel," "You Took Advantage of Me," and the perennial, "My Funny Valentine."

Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180g vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

Side 1:
Have You Met Miss Jones?
You Took Advantage of Me
A Ship without a Sail
To Keep My Love Alive
Dancing on the Ceiling
The Lady Is a Tramp
With a Song in My Heart
Manhattan

Side 2:
Johnny One Note
I Wish I Were in Love Again
Spring Is Here
It Never Entered My Mind
This Can't Be Love
Thou Swell
My Romance
Where or When
Little Girl Blue

Side 3:
Give It Back to the Indians
Ten Cents a Dance
There's a Small Hotel
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
Ev'rything I've Got
I Could Write a Book
The Blue Room
My Funny Valentine

Side 4:
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
Mountain Greenery
Wait Till You See Her
Lover
Isn't It Romantic?
Here in My Arms
Blue Moon
My Heart Stood Still
I've Got Five Dollars