Ella Fitzgerald
The Best of the Songbook Collection
Label:
Verve / POLYGRAM RECORDS
Year Released:
1956
Total Playing Time:
Tracks:
1. SOMETHING'S
GOTTA GIVE (2:33)
2. LOVE IS HERE TO STAY (3:52)
3. BEWITCHED, BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED (7:02)
4. I'VE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM (2:56)
5. LADY IS A TRAMP (3:21)
6. I GOT IT BAD (AND THAT AIN'T GOOD) (6:13)
7. MISS OTIS REGRETS (3:00)
8. 'S WONDERFUL (3:27)
9. BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA (2:21)
10. LOVE FOR SALE (5:53)
11. THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME (3:09)
12. MIDNIGHT SUN (4:51)
13. HOORAY FOR LOVE (2:42)
14. WHY WAS I BORN? (3:44)
15. COTTON TAIL (3:24)
16. EV'RY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE (3:32)
17. OH, LADY, BE GOOD! (4:00)
18. I'M OLD FASHIONED (3:27)
19. LAURA (3:43)
20. DAY DREAM (3:58)
21. EASY TO LOVE (3:24)
22. IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS (5:08)
23. HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON? (3:45)
24. LET'S BEGIN (2:57)
25. NOW IT CAN BE TOLD (3:09)
26. THERE'S A SMALL HOTEL (2:48)
27. DO NOTHIN' TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME (7:40)
28. ILL WIND (YOU'RE BLOWING ME NO GOOD) (3:51)
29. YOU'RE LAUGHING AT ME (3:14)
30. SHIP WITHOUT A SAIL (4:07)
31. TRAVELIN' LIGHT (3:47)
32. THIS TIME THE DREAM'S ON ME (4:35)
33. FROM THIS MOMENT ON (3:16)
34. SOLITUDE (2:06)
35. LOVE YOU MADLY (4:39)
36. ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE (3:15)
37. I CONCENTRATE ON YOU (3:11)
38. OUT OF THIS WORLD (2:42)
39. HOW ABOUT ME? (3:14)
40. I'M BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT (3:25)
41. MAN I LOVE (3:50)
42. I REMEMBER YOU (3:38)
43. I LET A SONG GO OUT OF MY HEART (4:09)
44. ALWAYS (3:05)
45. JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS (3:30)
46. PRELUDE TO A KISS (5:27)
47. ALL TO SOON (4:22)
48. LOVER (3:16)
Personnel
| For those who cannot afford to slurge on the entire epic 16-CD box of the complete Songbooks -- and I suspect that means most of us -- here's a formidable alternate, up to a point. This three-CD box in effect wraps a slipcase around the compilations The Best of the Song Books, Love Songs: Best of the Verve Song Books, and The Ballads: The Best of the Song Books, so it looks smart and impressive on the shelf without draining the budget too seriously. The problem is that this generous brace of 48 selections is thoroughly scrambled within each album, out of chronological order and with all of the composers tumbling after one another. One solution: if you have a CD changer, you can program all of the tracks of a particular composer together and emerge with a series of mini-songbooks. In any case, all of the Ella Songbooks are represented, some more than others, and three hours from them will suffice for most casual Ella fans. For a more diverse overview of Ella's Verve years, though, entry-level collectors will be better served by the three-CD First Lady of Song. ~ Richard S. Ginell |
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