Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book
Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald
Released	1956
Recorded	August 21–31, 1956
Genre	Jazz
Length	114:23
Label	Verve
Producer	Norman Granz
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Ella and Louis (1956) Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book (1956) Ella and Louis Again (1957)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book is a 1956 studio 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."^[5]

In 2000 it was voted number 642 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.^[6]

Track listing

For the 1956 Verve 2-LP album, Verve MG V-4002-2

All lyrics are written by Lorenz Hart; all music is composed by Richard Rodgers

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Have You Met Miss Jones?"	3:41
2.	"You Took Advantage of Me"	3:27
3.	"A Ship Without a Sail"	4:07
4.	"To Keep My Love Alive"	3:34
5.	"Dancing on the Ceiling"	4:06
6.	"The Lady Is a Tramp"	3:21
7.	"With a Song in My Heart"	2:44
8.	"Manhattan"	2:48

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Johnny One Note"	2:12
2.	"I Wish I Were in Love Again"	2:36
3.	"Spring Is Here"	3:38
4.	"It Never Entered My Mind"	4:06
5.	"This Can't Be Love"	2:54
6.	"Thou Swell"	2:03
7.	"My Romance"	3:42
8.	"Where or When"	2:46
9.	"Little Girl Blue"	3:53

Side three

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Give It Back to the Indians"	3:10
2.	"Ten Cents a Dance"	4:06
3.	"There's a Small Hotel"	2:48
4.	"I Didn't Know What Time It Was"	3:46
5.	"Ev'rything I've Got"	3:21
6.	"I Could Write a Book"	3:38
7.	"The Blue Room"	2:29
8.	"My Funny Valentine"	3:52

Side four

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"	7:01
2.	"Mountain Greenery"	2:13
3.	"Wait Till You See Him"	1:30
4.	"Lover"	3:16
5.	"Isn't It Romantic?"	3:00
6.	"Here in My Arms"	1:52
7.	"Blue Moon"	3:11
8.	"My Heart Stood Still"	3:02
9.	"I've Got Five Dollars"	2:39

Bonus track; Issued on disc two of 2009 the Verve 2CD Reissue, Verve 314-5372582

No.	Title	Length
35.	"Lover" (Alternative mono take)	3:15

In 2012, Verve also released an audiophile downloadable version of the LP in up to 192 kHz/24 bit lossless FLAC quality.

Personnel

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

Liner notes by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, William Simon and Norman Granz.

References

1. "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book Review". AllMusic. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
2. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 490. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
4. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 245.
5. "GRAMMY Hall Of Fame". grammy.com. Archived from the original on June 26, 2019. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
6. Colin Larkin (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 211. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.