Happy Birthday Ira Gershwin Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook is a 1959 five album set by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, focusing on the songs of George and Ira Gershwin. It was recorded with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, marking the first time that Fitzgerald and Riddle had worked together. This album is the largest single recording project that Fitzgerald worked on, and it is considered[by whom?] to be one of the most ambitious achievements in Western popular music. The album cover is an original portrait of Fitzgerald by the French artist Bernard Buffet, starting a tradition of using contemporary artists for Fitzgeralds albums, the artwork of Henri Matisse gracing the cover of her Harold Arlen Songbook (1961). Riddle arranged 59 Gershwin compositions for the album, including the two orchestral suites which open the album. Though Fitzgerald was 20 years old at the time George Gershwin died in 1937, Ira Gershwin was still alive to see this project completed, and helped contribute lyrics and support to some songs on the album which had never been recorded before. It was this project that led Ira Gershwin to say that he had never known how good our songs were until I heard Ella sing them. Ella Fitzgerald was 41 when she recorded this album, and at the peak of her vocal powers, demonstrated in the earlier Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book, and her two greatest live albums from this period, Ella in Berlin (1960) and Ella in Rome (1958). Like the other songbooks devoted to the Broadway composers, Fitzgerald gets only a single outlet for her notable scat singing, on I Got Rhythm. Fitzgeralds recording of But Not for Me won her the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female. It is listed as one of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Track listing For the 1998 4-CD set Verve re-issue, Verve 314 539 759-2 All Tracks composed by George Gershwin and all lyrics written by Ira Gershwin, unless otherwise indicated. Disc One Ambulatory Suite (Instrumental) (George Gershwin) Promenade (Walking the Dog) – 2:31, March of the Swiss Soldiers – 2:04, Fidgety Feet – 2:46 The Preludes (Instrumental) (G. Gershwin) Prelude I – 1:36, Prelude II – 3:48, Prelude III – 1:13, Sam and Delilah – 3:15 But Not for Me – 3:31 My One and Only – 2:36 Lets Call the Whole Thing Off – 4:26 (Ive Got) Beginners Luck – 3:08 Oh, Lady Be Good! – 3:58 Nice Work If You Can Get It – 3:32 Things Are Looking Up – 3:03 Just Another Rhumba – 5:34 How Long Has This Been Going On? – 3:45 S Wonderful – 3:28 The Man I Love – 3:50 That Certain Feeling – 3:07 By Strauss – 2:29 Someone to Watch Over Me – 4:30 The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag) – 3:43 Disc Two Who Cares? – 3:05 Looking For a Boy – 3:02 They All Laughed – 3:02 My Cousin in Milwaukee – 3:07 Somebody from Somewhere – 3:06 A Foggy Day – 3:50 Clap Yo Hands – 2:28 For You, For Me, For Evermore – 3:23 Stiff Upper Lip – 2:50 Boy Wanted – 3:33 Strike Up the Band – 2:33 Soon – 2:20 Ive Got a Crush on You – 3:26 Bidin My Time – 2:40 Arent You Kind of Glad We Did? – 3:28 Of Thee I Sing – 3:07 The Half of it, Dearie Blues – 3:45 I Was Doing All Right – 3:25 He Loves and She Loves – 2:46 Love is Sweeping the Country – 3:24 Treat Me Rough – 2:54 Disc Three Our Love is Here to Stay – 3:52 Slap That Bass – 3:23 Isnt It a Pity? – 3:23 Shall We Dance? – 3:08 Love Walked In – 3:52 Youve Got What Gets Me – 2:13 They Cant Take That Away from Me – 3:07 Embraceable You – 4:49 I Cant Be Bothered Now – 2:48 Boy! What Love Has Done to Me! – 3:46 Fascinating Rhythm – 3:22 Funny Face – 3:23 Lorelei – 3:21 Oh, So Nice! – 3:40 Lets Kiss and Make Up – 3:49 I Got Rhythm – 3:07 Disc Four - Tracks 3 to 16 are Alternate Takes and Remixes Somebody Loves Me (G. Gershwin, Buddy DeSylva, Ballard MacDonald) – 2:36 Cheerful Little Earful (Harry Warren, Ira Gershwin, Billy Rose) – 2:06 But Not for Me – 2:05 (45 rpm Take) Lorelei (Alternate Take) – 3:00 Our Love is Here to Stay (Partial Alternate Take) – 3:51 Oh, Lady be Good! (Alternate Take) – 4:04 Oh, Lady be Good! (Alternate Take) – 3:56 Oh, Lady be Good! (Alternate Take) – 4:12 But Not for Me – 2:05 (Mono Mix) Fascinating Rhythm – 3:21 (Mono Mix) They All Laughed – 3:02 (Mono Mix) The Man I Love – 3:50 (Mono Mix) Nice Work If You Can Get It – 3:32 (Mono Mix) Clap Yo Hands – 2:29 (Mono Mix) Lets Call the Whole Thing Off – 4:26 (Mono Mix) I Was Doing All Right – 3:25 (Mono Mix) He Loves and She Loves – 2:46 (Mono Mix) (Ive Got) Beginners Luck – 3:07 (Mono Mix) Disc One, Two and Three original LP issue: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George & Ira Gershwin Songbook Verve MGVS 6082-5 Disc One, tracks 1 and 2 original 7-EP (Verve VS 100) issued with the above Disc Four, tracks 1 and 2 originally issued on the 1959 Ella Fitzgerald album Get Happy! Verve V6-4036 Disc Four, track 3 original 7-single issue: Verve 10180 Disc Four, tracks 4, 5, and 9-18: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Gershwin Songbook Verve MGV-4013 [note 1] Disc Four, tracks 6 and 7 previously unissued. Disc Four, track 8: The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks Verve 519 832-2 Notes Jump up ^ The booklet of the 1998 4-CD set is most probably misprinted. It gives Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George & Ira Gershwin Songbook Vol.1 Verve MGVS 6102, as the original issue for these tracks, but MGVS 6102 is the catalogue number for Get Happy, while MGV-4013 is the LP mentioned later in the same booklet as the original issue for the tracks. Personnel[edit] All tracks recorded in 1959 at Capitol Studios, Hollywood on January 5-8, March 18 and 26, and July 15-17. Ella Fitzgerald – Vocals Nelson Riddle – Arranger, conductor Combined personnel listing for all tracks Trumpets – Don Fagerquist, Pete Candoli, Joe Triscari, Conrad Gozzo, Cappy Lewis, Vito Mangano, Mannie Klein, Dale McMickle, Shorty Sherock Trombones – Milt Bernhart, James Priddy, Juan Tizol, Richard Noel, Tommy Pederson Bass trombones – Karl DeKarske, George Roberts French horns – Vincent DeRosa, James Decker Tuba – Ed Gilbert or Red Callender Alto saxophones – Ted Nash, Benny Carter, Ronnie Lang Tenor saxophone – Plas Johnson Bass saxophone – Chuck Gentry Woodwinds – Buddy Collette, Buck Skalak, Gene Cipriano, Jewell Grant, Jules Jacob, Wilbur Schwartz, Justin Gordon, William Green, Harry Klee, Joe Koch, Champ Webb Piano – Paul Smith or Lou Levy Guitar – Herb Ellis or Barney Kessel Double bass – Joe Comfort or Ralph Pena Drums – Alvin Stoller, Mel Lewis or Bill Richmond Percussion – Frank Flynn or Larry Bunker String section Violins – Israel Baker, Henry Hill, Harold Dicterow, Erno Neufield, Victor Arno, Victor Bay, Alex Beller, Joseph Livoti, Jacques Gasselin, Walter Edelstein, James Getzoff, Eudice Shapiro, Ben Gill, Murrary Kellner, Nat Ross, Felix Slatkin, Marshall Sosson, Misha Russell, Paul Shure, Dan Lube, Gerald Vinci Violas – Alvin Dinken, Lou Kievman, David Sterkin, Stanley Harris, Paul Robyn, Barbara Simons Cellos – Elizabeth Greenschpoon, James Arkatov, Armand Kaproff, George Neikrug, Dave Filerman, Kurt Reher Harp – Katharine Julyie
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