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Ella Fitzgerald, with Buddy Bregman Orchestra: Rodgers and Hart Songbook.
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- Have You Met Miss Jones? [Lyrics]
- You Took Advantage of Me [Lyrics]
- Ship Without a Sail [Lyrics]
- To Keep My Love Alive [Lyrics]
- Dancing on the Ceiling
- The Lady is a Tramp [Lyrics]
- With a Song in My Heart [Lyrics]
- Manhattan [Lyrics]
- Johnny One Note [Lyrics]
- I Wish I Were in Love Again [Lyrics]
- Spring Is Here [Lyrics]
- It Never Entered My Mind [Lyrics]
- This Can't Be Love [Lyrics]
- Thou Swell [Lyrics]
- My Romance [Lyrics]
- Where or When [Lyrics]
- Little Girl Blue [Lyrics]
- Give It Back to the Indians
- Ten Cents a Dance [Lyrics]
- There's a Small Hotel [Lyrics]
- I Didn't Know What Time It Was [Lyrics]
- Everything I've Got [Lyrics]
- I Could Write a Book [Lyrics]
- Blue Room [Lyrics]
- My Funny Valentine [Lyrics]
- Bewitched
- Mountain Greenery
- Wait Till You See Her [Lyrics]
- Lover [Lyrics]
- Isn't It Romantic? [Lyrics]
- Here in My Arms [Lyrics]
- Blue Moon [Lyrics]
- My Heart Stood Still [Lyrics]
- I've Got Five Dollars
Verve, VEZ 2519 (2 CDs or 1 double LP )
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Vote: *****
The best of the songbook collection with ELLA giving beautiful performances
on many songs like I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TIME IT WAS
and THERE'S A SMALL HOTEL never better in BUDDY
BREGMAN'S wonderfully touching orchestrations.After all these years,it is
still the one to buy,if you want only one.
Only Frank Sinatra has put his indelible stamp on as many pages of the American
Popular Songbook as Ella Fitzgerald. But while Sinatra specialized in mood-themed
albums (his composer-based collections were compiled from material already
released), Fitzgerald's ambitious songbooks devoted themselves to one great
songwriter after another: Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, Jerome
Kern, Harold Arlen, and so on. The two-volume Rodgers and Hart project ranks
with the best, and if Buddy Bergman's arrangements are a bit sweeter than
his Cole Porter settings, or Nelson Riddle's Gershwin treatments, they suit
the material just fine. And what a wide range of material it is (with original
verses intact!), intermingling novelty show tunes ("Give it Back to the
Indians," "Johnny One Note"), sophisticated standards
("Manhattan," "Blue
Moon," "The Lady Is a Tramp"), and lush ballads
("Isn't it Romantic," "It
Never Entered My Mind"). But for my money, the most exquisite thing
Fitzgerald ever recorded is her seven-minute "Bewitched"
(a.k.a. "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered") on Vol. 2, casting a spell
of hushed reverie that makes time stand still. --
Rodgers and Hart wrote deceptively simple songs with striking melodies and literate
lyrics--sung by realistic characters in shows set in modern, urban settings. Rodgers jazz like themes and phrasing are the reasons they appeal to jazz musicians. And what greater jazz artist than Ella Fitzgerald to sing them? Forty years on, these are still the greatest interpretations of Rodgers and Hart.
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