Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book - Acoustic Sounds Series LP

Verve Acoustic Sounds Series, 180g Vinyl 2LP, Gatefold

The second of Ella's celebrated Song Book albums and widely hailed as one of the greatest vocal jazz records ever made. Begun three months after the Cole Porter Song Book, the Rodgers and Hart sessions feature the cream of West Coast players — Maynard Ferguson, Milt Bernhart, Herb Geller, Ted Nash, Bud Shank, Barney Kessel and Alvin Stoller — under arranger and conductor Buddy Bregman. Standouts include "There's a Small Hotel," "You Took Advantage of Me" and the perennial "My Funny Valentine." The Verve Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes, remastered 180g vinyl and deluxe gatefold packaging.

Features

• Number of Discs: 2
• 180g vinyl
• Verve Acoustic Sounds Series, remastered
• Deluxe gatefold packaging
• Label: Verve

Track Listing

Side One:

1. Have You Met Miss Jones?
2. You Took Advantage of Me
3. A Ship without a Sail
4. To Keep My Love Alive
5. Dancing on the Ceiling
6. The Lady Is a Tramp
7. With a Song in My Heart
8. Manhattan

Side Two:

1. Johnny One Note
2. I Wish I Were in Love Again
3. Spring Is Here
4. It Never Entered My Mind
5. This Can't Be Love
6. Thou Swell
7. My Romance
8. Where or When
9. Little Girl Blue

Side Three:

1. Give It Back to the Indians
2. Ten Cents a Dance
3. There's a Small Hotel
4. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
5. Ev'rything I've Got
6. I Could Write a Book
7. The Blue Room
8. My Funny Valentine

Side Four:

1. Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
2. Mountain Greenery
3. Wait Till You See Her
4. Lover
5. Isn't It Romantic?
6. Here in My Arms
7. Blue Moon
8. My Heart Stood Still
9. I've Got Five Dollars