Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Album: Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 1959/2017
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 192 kHz
Duration: 03:14:33
Total Tracks: 59
Total Size: 7,87 GB

Tracklist:

1-01. Ella Fitzgerald – Sam And Delilah (03:17)
1-02. Ella Fitzgerald – But Not For Me (03:34)
1-03. Ella Fitzgerald – My One And Only (02:38)
1-04. Ella Fitzgerald – Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off (04:29)
1-05. Ella Fitzgerald – (I’ve Got) Beginner’s Luck (03:11)
1-06. Ella Fitzgerald – Oh, Lady Be Good (04:01)
1-07. Ella Fitzgerald – Nice Work If You Can Get It (03:34)
1-08. Ella Fitzgerald – Things Are Looking Up (03:05)
1-09. Ella Fitzgerald – Just Another Rhumba (05:36)
1-10. Ella Fitzgerald – How Long Has This Been Going On? (03:49)
2-01. Ella Fitzgerald – ‘S Wonderful (03:31)
2-02. Ella Fitzgerald – The Man I Love (03:52)
2-03. Ella Fitzgerald – That Certain Feeling (03:04)
2-04. Ella Fitzgerald – By Strauss (02:32)
2-05. Ella Fitzgerald – Someone To Watch Over Me (04:33)
2-06. Ella Fitzgerald – The Real American Folk Song (03:46)
2-07. Ella Fitzgerald – Who Cares? (03:08)
2-08. Ella Fitzgerald – Looking For A Boy (03:05)
2-09. Ella Fitzgerald – They All Laughed (03:05)
2-10. Ella Fitzgerald – My Cousin In Milwaukee (03:09)
2-11. Ella Fitzgerald – Somebody From Somewhere (03:09)
3-01. Ella Fitzgerald – A Foggy Day (03:33)
3-02. Ella Fitzgerald – Clap Yo’ Hands (02:31)
3-03. Ella Fitzgerald – For You For Me For Evermore (03:25)
3-04. Ella Fitzgerald – Stiff Upper Lip (02:53)
3-05. Ella Fitzgerald – Boy Wanted (03:35)
3-06. Ella Fitzgerald – Strike Up The Band (02:38)
3-07. Ella Fitzgerald – Soon (02:23)
3-08. Ella Fitzgerald – I’ve Got A Crush On You (03:30)
3-09. Ella Fitzgerald – Bidin’ My Time (02:42)
3-10. Ella Fitzgerald – Aren’t You Kind Of Glad We Did? (03:30)
3-11. Ella Fitzgerald – Of Thee I Sing (03:11)
4-01. Ella Fitzgerald – The Half Of It Dearie Blues (03:48)
4-02. Ella Fitzgerald – I Was Doing All Right (03:28)
4-03. Ella Fitzgerald – He Loves And She Loves (02:49)
4-04. Ella Fitzgerald – Love Is Sweeping The Country (03:26)
4-05. Ella Fitzgerald – Treat Me Rough (02:59)
4-06. Ella Fitzgerald – Love Is Here To Stay (03:56)
4-07. Ella Fitzgerald – Slap That Bass (03:26)
4-08. Ella Fitzgerald – Isn’t It A Pity (03:26)
4-09. Ella Fitzgerald – Shall We Dance? (03:10)
4-10. Ella Fitzgerald – Love Walked In (03:54)
4-11. Ella Fitzgerald – You’ve Got What Gets Me (02:19)
5-01. Ella Fitzgerald – They Can’t Take That Away From Me (03:11)
5-02. Ella Fitzgerald – Embraceable You (04:52)
5-03. Ella Fitzgerald – I Can’t Be Bothered Now (02:50)
5-04. Ella Fitzgerald – Boy What Love Has Done To Me (03:49)
5-05. Ella Fitzgerald – Fascinating Rhythm (03:26)
5-06. Ella Fitzgerald – Funny Face (03:24)
5-07. Ella Fitzgerald – Lorelei (03:22)
5-08. Ella Fitzgerald – Oh So Nice (03:39)
5-09. Ella Fitzgerald – Let’s Kiss And Make Up (03:52)
5-10. Ella Fitzgerald – I Got Rhythm (03:10)
6-01. Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra – Promenade (Walking The Dog) (02:32)
6-02. Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra – March Of The Swiss Soldiers (02:03)
6-03. Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra – Fidgety Feet (02:42)
6-04. Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra – Prelude I (01:36)
6-05. Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra – Prelude II (03:48)
6-06. Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra – Prelude III (01:09)

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This 1959 six disc set from Ella Fitzgerald is the largest and most ambitious in her celebrated Song Book series, consisting of her interpretations of 59 Gershwin tunes, including her Grammy-winning version of But Not For Me. The album also marks Fitzgerald’s first collaboration with arranger Nelson Riddle, a partnership that would yield further recordings in the 1960s.The success of Ella Fitzgerald sings The George and Ira Gershwin Song book if measured in chart terms is at best average, spending just 5 weeks on the best seller list, but that is looking at this monumental recording from the wrong perspective. Ella takes songs that are much loved, and much played and makes them sound fresh and alive, new even. It did, however, win a Grammy for the Best Vocal Performance, Female at the 1960 ceremony. And let’s not forget, this was a five album set, one that has subsequently become a 4x album set, with alternate takes and other rarities. Immerse yourself in some of the greatest singing by any singer, anytime, anywhere…

Ella Fitzgerald was forty-one when she recorded this album, and at the peak of her vocal powers, demonstrated in the earlier Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book, and her two greatest live albums from this period, Ella in Berlin (1960) and Ella in Rome (1958). Like the other songbooks devoted to the Broadway composers, Fitzgerald gets only a single outlet for her notable scat singing, on “I Got Rhythm”.