Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson | ||||
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Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald | ||||
Released | 1962 | |||
Recorded | November 13–15, December 27, 1961 | |||
Studio | Capitol (Hollywood) | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 42:42 | |||
Label | Verve V/V6-4054[1] | |||
Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
New Record Mirror | [4] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [5] |
Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson is a 1962 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by an orchestra arranged by Nelson Riddle.
This album is one of a pair that Fitzgerald and Riddle recorded and released in 1962, the other being Ella Swings Gently with Nelson. Fitzgerald and Riddle had last worked together on her 1959 album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook.[6]
Fitzgerald's performance on this album won her the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female at the 5th Annual Grammy Awards, this was Fitzgerald's seventh Grammy.[7]
Track listing
For the 1962 Verve LP release; Verve MG V-4054
Side One:
- "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) – 3:00
- "Don't Be That Way" (Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson) – 3:47
- "Love Me or Leave Me" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 2:49
- "I Hear Music" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) – 2:19
- "What Am I Here For?" (Duke Ellington, Frankie Laine) – 2:43
- "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'" (Ellington, Peggy Lee) – 3:00
Side Two:
- "I Won't Dance" (Dorothy Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:30
- "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:37
- "The Gentleman is a Dope" (Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers) – 3:58
- "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:55
- "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:45
- "Pick Yourself Up" (Fields, Kern) – 2:06
Bonus Tracks; Issued on the 1993 Verve CD re-issue, Verve 519 347-2
13. "Call Me Darling" (Dorothy Dick, Mort Fryberg, Rolf Marbet, Bert Reisfeld) – 2:34
14. "Somebody Loves Me" (Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald) – 2:33
15. "Cheerful Little Earful" (Ira Gershwin, Billy Rose, Warren) – 2:06
- Track 13: Originally issued on 7" single; Verve 10248
- Tracks 14 and 15: Originally issued on the 1959 album Get Happy!; Verve V6-4036
Personnel
Recorded from January 5, 1959 – December 27, 1961, at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles:
- Ella Fitzgerald – vocals
- Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor
- Benny Green – liner notes
- Norman Granz – producer
References
- ^ "Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson at Discogs". discogs.com. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
- ^ Yanow, Scott. "Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved August 3, 2011.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ Watson, Jimmy (February 9, 1963). "Ella Fitzgerald, Nelson Riddle: Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 100. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 14, 2022. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 491. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ David Morrell (January 24, 2013). Nelson Riddle: The Man Behind the Music. David Morrell. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-1-937760-25-0.
- ^ Johnson Publishing Company (June 6, 1963). "Jet". Jet. Johnson Publishing Company: 62–. ISSN 0021-5996.
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- Ella and Louis
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- Ella and Louis Again
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- Hello, Love
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- Ella Sings Broadway
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book
- Ella and Basie!
- These Are the Blues
- Hello, Dolly!
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- Ella in Hamburg
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- The Stockholm Concert, 1966
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