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Had Ella Fitzgerald stopped recording after the completion of her great American songbook cycle for Verve in the ‘50s, her legacy as one of America’s great jazz and pop singers would have still been secure. This material has tested the mettle of every saloon singer who’s come down the pike since, yet Fitzgerald’s readings of Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, Mercer, Kern, and Rodgers and Hart here remain the benchmark for all who’ve followed. If her Verve songbook anthologies skimmed the cream of those songwriters’ catalogs, this compilation essentially refines it into virtual musical confection. Sinatra may have frequently imbued this material with world-weary nuances, but Ella’s knack for infusing tunes like “Something’s Gotta Give” and “S’ Wonderful” with her effusive jazz chops remains second to none, while her way with the gentler ballads only suggests how underrated her own ability to get to a song’s emotional core may have been.

Genres: Jazz, Music, Vocal, Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop,

Standards, Easy Listening, Swing, Hard Bop, Big Band

Released: Sep 21, 1993

℗ 1993 UMG Recordings, Inc.

Tracklist:

01 Something's Gotta Give

02 Love Is Here to Stay (1959)

03 Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered

04 I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (1958)

05 The Lady Is a Tramp (1956 Version)

06 I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) [1957 Version]

07 Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable to Lunch Today) [1956 Version]

08 'S Wonderful (1959)

09 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (1961 Version)

10 Love for Sale

11 They Can't Take That Away from Me (1959)

12 Midnight Sun (1964 Version)

13 Hooray for Love

14 Why Was I Born?

15 Cotton Tail (1956 Version)

16 Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye