Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook

Infobox Album | Name = Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook
Type = Album
Artist = Ella Fitzgerald

| Released = 1956
Recorded = August 21 - 31, 1956
Genre = Jazz
Length = 114:23
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Norman Granz
Reviews =
* Allmusic (5/5) [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:45520r8ar48v link] | Last album = "Ella and Louis"
(1956)
This album = " Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook "
(1956)
Next album = "One O'Clock Jump"
(1956) |

"Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook" is a 1956 (see 1956 in music) album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

This album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance." [ [http://www.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/Awards/Hall_Of_Fame/ Grammy Hall of Fame Database] ]

Track listing

#"Have You Met Miss Jones?" – 3:41
#"You Took Advantage of Me" – 3:27
#"A Ship Without a Sail" – 4:07
#"To Keep My Love Alive" – 3:34
#"Dancing on the Ceiling" – 4:06
#"The Lady is a Tramp" – 3:21
#"With a Song in My Heart" – 2:44
#"Manhattan" – 2:48
#"Johnny One Note" – 2:12
#"I Wish I Were in Love Again" – 2:36
#"Spring is Here" – 3:38
#"It Never Entered My Mind" – 4:06
#"This Can't Be Love" – 2:54
#"Thou Swell" – 2:03
#"My Romance" – 3:42
#"Where or When" – 2:46
#"Little Girl Blue" – 2:53Disc Two
#"Give it Back to the Indians" – 3:10
#"Ten Cents a Dance" – 4:06
#"There's a Small Hotel" – 2:48
#"I Didn't Know What Time It Was" – 3:46
#"Ev'rything I've Got" – 3:21
#"I Could Write a Book" – 3:38
#"The Blue Room" – 3:38
#"My Funny Valentine" – 2:29
#"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" – 3:52
#"Mountain Greenery" – 7:01
#"Wait Till You See Him" – 2:13
#"Lover" (Stereo Take) – 1:30
#"Isn't It Romantic?" – 3:16
#"Here in My Arms" – 3:00
#"Blue Moon" – 1:52
#"My Heart Stood Still" – 3:11
#"I've Got Five Dollars" – 2:39
#"Lover" (Mono Take) – 3:15

All songs composed by Richard Rodgers and all lyrics written by Lorenz Hart.

Personnel

Recorded August 21 - 31, 1956, Hollywood, Los Angeles:

* Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals
* Buddy Bregman - Arranger, Conductor.

Footnotes