Ella Fitzgerald

• INCLUDES 12-PAGE BOOKLET WITH RARE PHOTOS AS THE ORIGINAL LINER NOTES.

This edition presents the complete classic album Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson (Verve V64054), which was the first of Ella Fitzgerald’s various collaborations with the great conductor and arranger Nelson Riddle. All of the music recorded during these 1961 sessions has been included here (adding seven tracks to the twelve on the original LP), as well as two rare tunes from their initial 1959 collaboration (the Gershwin Songbook) which weren’t issued on that album. Thanks to Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson, Fitzgerald won a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Performance.

PERSONNEL:

• ELLA FITZGERALD, vocals
• NELSON RIDDLE, Orchestra conductor and arranger
• RONNIE LANG, alto sax

Los Angeles, November-December, 1961.

TRACKS:

• 01. When Your Lover Has Gone
• 02. Don’t Be That Way
• 03. Love Me Or Leave Me
• 04. I Hear Music
• 05. What Am I Here For?
• 06. I’m Gonna Go Fishin’
• 07. I Won’t Dance
• 08. I Only Have Eyes For You
• 09. The Gentleman Is A Dope
• 10. Mean To Me
• 11. Alone Together
• 12. Pick Yourself Up
• 13. Darn That Dream
• 14. Georgia On My Mind
• 15. I Can’t Get Started
• 16. It’s A Pity To Say Goodnight
• 17. Call Me Darling [Long Take]
• 18. Call Me Darling [Short Take]
• 19. All Of Me
• 20. Somebody Loves Me
• 21. Cheerful Little Earful