#ELLA FITZGERALD COLE PORTER SONGBOOK SERIES#
In fact, six of the 22 songs are found on both collections.įitzgerald’s original songbook series only included a very limited selection of songs from each composer. Ella Fitzgerald: The Very Best of the Cole Porter Songbook, and the new hits package from the Rodgers and Hart songbook, each showcase 11 songs hand-picked by Richard Seilel, the man behind the Golden Anniversary release. The latest repackaging of Fitzgerald’s work is closer to a Cliffs Notes summary than an abridged songbook. These abridged versions work like the transfer of a novel to audio book, important information is lost in the process, but the main idea is still there. In 2006, Verve released The Very Best of the Songbooks: Golden Anniversary Edition, which compiled 22 tracks on 2 CDs. The Best of the Songbooks: The Ballads and The Best of the Songbooks: Love Songs followed shortly after. “Best of” collections were issued immediately, with The Best of the Verve Songbooks popping up the same year the set hit the shelves. Verve accomplished a second level of selectivity after reissuing the entire songbook series in 1993 as 16 CDs. By 1964, her songbooks had been issued on records, but the work was so massive that abridged versions of the collection seemed necessary simply to process it all. Over the next eight years, Fitzgerald would focus on seven other Tin Pan Alley composers, and select from the hundreds of tunes by each the 250 songs to fill her recording project. If for any reason you’ve never listened to this album you are missing one of the great recordings of the 20th century, if you have heard it you’ll know what they’ve been missing.Įlla Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook can be bought here.In 1956, with the guidance of producer Norman Granz, Ella Fitzgerald began selecting material for the first album in her songbook series, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook. 18 on the list of Best Sellers for the whole year, one that was dominated by soundtrack albums. By the end of the year, the double LP was No. In September Ella was the headliner on the annual JATP autumn tour of America. 15 on the Billboard Best Sellers list after Verve had taken an extensive advertising campaign in Esquire, The New Yorker, High Fidelity, and a dozen Sunday Newspapers across America. The thirty-two tracks, Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook, came out on May 15, 1956, as a double album and sold for $9.96. Two weeks before recording Ella’s version of “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” Edison and Bernhart had recorded Nelson Riddle’s arrangement of the song with Sinatra, the one featuring the trombonist’s fabulous solo. Among the cream of West Coast session musicians, many of whom graced the fabulous recordings that Frank Sinatra was making around the same time, are trumpeter, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Milt Bernhart’s trombone, Herb Geller, and Ted Nash and Bud Shank doubling on clarinets and saxophone, as well as trumpeter Maynard Ferguson. That thinking does a disservice to Bregman’s arrangements they provide the perfect musical cushion and accentuate the melodies of Porter’s wonderful songs. The reason was that I frankly didn’t care about what happened to the music.” – Norman Granz ”When I recorded Ella, I always put her out front, not a blend. Granz, while taking a chance on Bregman, would later reveal to his biographer Ted Hershorn that he was not at all bothered about the band’s arrangements. Granz had initially wanted Nelson Riddle to do the arrangements for Ella, but he refused, probably because he was committed to Frank Sinatra’s recording career at this point. It was a turning point in my life.” – Ella Fitzgerald Norman felt that I should do other things, so he produced the Cole Porter Songbook for me.
”I realized then that there was more to music than bop.
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