# "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" – 5:25 (bonus track)Īll songs written entirely by Cole Porter, unless otherwise noted. # "I Concentrate on You" – 3:00 (bonus track) # " Don't Fence Me In" – 3:19 (lyrics by Robert Fletcher) # " 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 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 marvellous diction that girl has". Fitzgerald's manager, (and the producer of many of her albums), Norman Granz, visited Cole Porter at the Waldolf-Astoria, and played him this entire album. This album inaugurated Fitzgerald's "Songbook" series, each of the eight albums in the series focusing on a different composer of the canon known as the Great American Songbook. Fitzgerald's time on the Verve label would see her produce her most highly acclaimed recordings, at the peak of her vocal powers. This was Fitzgerald's first album for the newly created Verve Records. "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook" is a 1956 (see 1956 in music) album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs of Cole Porter. This album = " Sings the Cole Porter Songbook " * Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 | Last album = " Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues" Over the entire first two volumes of the songbook set. Infobox Album | Name = Sings the Cole Porter Songbook Fitzgeralds voice is also louder, at the expense of diluting the singers wide range of expression. What a pity, many will say, that all 50 songs weren’t recorded.Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook And as if that wasn’t enough, Bregman’s orchestra sounds absolutely splendid. SKU: 602577090004 Categories: All Vinyl, Jazz, Vocalist Tag: Ella. Bregman’s arrangements never seek to disguise the fact that all these songs originated on Broadway, and Ella proves her greatness by finding something new in such old favourites as Night and Day, I Love Paris and I Get A Kick Out Of You. Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book (Vinyl 2LP). Media Condition: Media: Very Good Plus (VG+) Will show some signs that it was played and otherwise handled by a previous owner who took good care of it. Įach and every one is a classic in its own right. Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Cole Porter Song Book (2xCD, Album, RE, RM, Dig) Label: Verve Records Cat: 314 537 257-2. Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book Tracklist Companies, etc. The result was a list of 32 songs, all of which make easy listening not only thanks to their melodic originality and harmonic genius but particularly to the wonderful amalgamation of the text – which Porter always wrote himself – and the music. Porter had written hundreds of wonderful songs from which Granz made an initial choice of 50 songs before Ella and the bandleader and arranger Buddy Bregman finally decided upon what was, for them, the crème de la crème. The recording’s success was practically a foregone conclusion. The Cole Porter Songbook marks the glorious beginning of a series which finally expanded to seven titles. The year 1956 documents a new, great chapter in the history of jazz music: Norman Granz founds his third label, VERVE, manages to win Ella Fitzgerald (who has deserted DECCA) and initiates the Songbook Series which not only attracts a totally new listening public, but also establishes Ella’s reputation as the “First Lady of Song”.
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