Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson

Infobox Album | Name = Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
Type = Album
Artist = Ella Fitzgerald

| Released = 1962
Recorded = January 5, 1959–December 27, 1961
Genre = Jazz
Length = 42:42
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Norman Granz
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3t65mpzd9f2o link]
Last album = "Rhythm Is My Business"
(1962)
This album = " Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson "
(1962)
Next album = "Ella Swings Gently with Nelson"
(1962) |

"Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson" is a 1962 (see 1962 in music) studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra.This album is one of a pair, the other being "Ella Swings Gently with Nelson", that were released in 1962.

This was the first time Fitzgerald and Riddle had worked together since 1959's epic "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook".

Fitzgerald's performance on this album won her the 1963 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female.

Track listing

# "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
# "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
# "Call Me Darling" (Dorothy Dick, Mort Fryberg, Rolf Marbet, Bert Reisfeld) – 2:34
# "Somebody Loves Me" (Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald) – 2:33
# "Cheerful Little Earful" (Ira Gershwin, Billy Rose, Warren) – 2:06

Personnel

Recorded from January 5, 1959–December 27, 1961 Capitol Tower, Hollywood, Los Angeles:

Tracks 1-13

* Ella Fitzgerald - vocals
* Nelson Riddle - arranger, conductor