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The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books

(16-CD Box Set)


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Format: CD Box Set

Genre: Jazz

Average Customer Rating: Rating 5.0
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Product Description:

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 Reviews:

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...."
Stereo Review (3/94, p.102) - Performance: Handled With Care / Recording: Excellent Transfers - "...a monument to [Ella's] artistry, to American popular music, and to Norman Granz....ought to be offered on a layaway plan, because no discriminating pair of ears should be without it...."

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CD Box Set Details:

  • Label: Polygram Records
  • Originally Released in: 1993
  • Number of Discs: 16
  • Release Date: October 5, 1993
  • OLDIES.com Sales Rank: 20,927
  • Item UPC: 731451983221
  • Counts as 16 item(s) for International Shipping.

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