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The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books
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Personnel includes: Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Buddy Bregman, Billy May, Nelson Riddle, Paul Weston (arrangers).
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Recorded between 1956 & 1964. Includes liner notes and discography by Benny Green.
THE COMPLETE ELLA FITZGERALD SONG BOOKS contains eight songbooks (in chronological order) by Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer. This box set, which coincides with the Verve label's 50th anniversary, comes with a 48-page clothbound book with interviews of Verve founder Norman Granz and arrangers Buddy Bregman and Paul Weston conducted by John McDonough. All the original artwork is reproduced as miniature albums including the inner sleeves and original liner notes. Also contains previously unreleased bonus tracks.
THE COMPLETE ELLA FITZGERALD SONG BOOKS won 1995 Grammy Awards for Best Historical Album and Best Recording Package, Boxed.
TRACK LIST CONTINUED:
DISC 15 (CONTINUED WITH TRACK 8):
Remind Me
Way You Look Tonight, The
Yesterdays
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Why Was I Born?
DISC 16: THE JOHNNY MERCER SONG BOOK:
Too Marvelous For Words
Early Autumn
Day In-Day Out
Laura
This Time The Dream's On Me
Skylark
Single-O
Something's Gotta Give
Trav'lin Light
Midnight Sun
Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)
I Remember You
When A Woman Loves A Man
Entertainment Weekly - 12/24/93, p.61
"...Jazz mogul Norman Granz's masterstroke of pre-rock-artist packaging...finally gets the CD-age packaging it deserves..." - Rating: A+Down Beat - 2/94, p.56
5 Stars - Excellent - "...stand as perhaps the finest tribute to American popular song ever recorded....possessed with a pure timbre and a guileless approach to singing...she met her mentor in [Norman] Granz and her mettle in the songbook concept...."Musician - 4/94, p.91
"...Has there ever been a great singer so willing to make herself invisible in the service of a song? The genius of these Norman Granz '50s sessions is that the songs here are almost uniformly unsurpassable...The Ellington collection is particularly wonderful to hear, as Ella becomes the great female voice Duke never had...."New York Times - 11/28/93
"...Along with Frank Sinatra's 1950s Capitol recordings, Ella Fitzgerald's `songbook' anthologies of pre-rock American music are one of the cornerstones of American pop on disk...."
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