Description
**THIS IS A VINYL LP**
Release Date: 2015
Label: Waxtime
Track List
Side A
- All Through The Night
- Anything Goes
- Miss Otis Regrets
- Too Darn Hot
- In The Still Of The Night
- I Get A Kick Out Of You
- Do I Love You
- Always True To You In My Fashion
Side B
- Let’s Do It
- Just One Of Those Things
- Ev’ry Time We Say Good-Bye
- All Of You
- Begin The Beguine
- Get Out Of Town
- I Am In Love
- From This Moment On
Side C
- I Love Paris
- You Do Something To Me
- Ridin’ High
- Easy To Love
- It’s All Right With Me
- Why Can’t You Behave?
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- You’re The Top
Side D
- Love For Sale
- It’s De-Lovely
- Night And Day
- Ace In The Hole
- So In Love
- I’ve Got You Under My Skin
- I Concentrate On You
- Don’t Fence Me In
Notes
Some of the most ambitious projects jazz producer Norman Granz ever made were the song book series, full albums devoted to songs by just one single composer or pair of composers sung or played by a well known jazzman. The Cole Porter Song Book was the first of Fitzgerald’s Song Book series. Each of the eight albums in the series focused on a different composer of the canon known as the Great American Songbook. Granz later visited Cole Porter himself at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and played him this entire album. Afterwards, Porter merely remarked, “My, what marvellous diction that girl has”.
ELLA FITZGERALD, vocals on all tracks.
Orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman.
A4, B2, B8, C3 & C5:
Pete Candoli, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Maynard Ferguson, Conrad Gozzo (tp),
Milt Bernhart, Joe Howard, Lloyd Ulyate (tb), George Roberts (b-tb),
Herb Geller, Bud Shank (as), Bob Cooper, Ted Nash (ts), Chuck Gentry (bar),
Paul Smith (p), Barney Kessel (g), Joe Mondragon (b), Alvin Stoller (d).
Los Angeles, February 7, 1956.
A7, B3, B7, C1 & C6:
Ted Nash (fl), Bob Cooper (oboe), Paul Smith (p, celeste),
Barney Kessel (g), Joe Mondragon (b), Alvin Stoller (d), plus strings:
Corky Hale (harp), 12 violins, violas, Edgar Lustgarten,
Robert La Marchina (cello), Mischa Russell (concert master).
Same place and date as above.
A3, B6 & C4:
Paul Smith (p), Barney Kessel (g), Joe Mondragon (b), Alvin Stoller (d).
Same place and date as above.
A1, A2, A8, B5, C2, D1 & D4:
Pete Candoli, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Maynard Ferguson, Conrad Gozzo (tp),
Joe Howard, Lloyd Ulyate, Milt Bernhart (tb), George Roberts (b-tb),
Herb Geller (as, cl), Bud Shank (as, fl), Bob Cooper (ts, cl),
Ted Nash (ts, fl, cl), Chuck Gentry (bar, b-cl), Paul Smith (p),
Barney Kessel (g), Joe Mondragon (b), Alvin Stoller (d),
Corky Hale (harp), 12 violins, violas, Edgar Lustgarten, Robert La Marchina (cello), Mischa Russell (concert master).
Los Angeles, February 8, 1956.
A5, B1, D2, D5 & D7:
Same personnel as above. Los Angeles, February 9, 1956.
A6, B4, C7, D6 & D8:
Joe Howard, Lloyd Ulyate, Milt Bernhart (tb), George Roberts (b-tb),
Paul Smith (p), Barney Kessel (g), Joe Mondragon (b), Alvin Stoller (d).
Same place and date as above.
C8 & D3:
Pete Candoli, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Maynard Ferguson, Conrad Gozzo (tp),
Joe Howard, Lloyd Ulyate, Milt Bernhart (tb), George Roberts (b-tb),
Herb Geller, Bud Shank (as), Bob Cooper, Ted Nash (ts), Chuck Gentry (bar),
Paul Smith (p), Barney Kessel (g), Joe Mondragon (b), Alvin Stoller (d),
Corky Hale (harp), 8 violins, 2 violas, Edgar Lustgarten,
Robert La Marchina (cello), Mischa Russell (concert master).
Los Angeles, March 27, 1956.
