- jazz, swing, smooth jazz, jazz vocal
- 107 min
- 32 tracks
- Verve
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book is a 1956 studio double album by American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs of Cole Porter. It is the first in a series of thematic LPs devoted to great American songwriters that Fitzgerald recorded from 1956 to 1964.
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Classical in form, spare, character-led and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music5/5 ★
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings4/4 ★
- The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide4/5 ★
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Tracks
- A1All Through the Night3:17
- A2Anything Goes3:23
- A3Miss Otis Regrets (She’s Unable to Lunch Today)3:02
- A4Too Darn Hot3:50
- A5In the Still of the Night2:40
- A6I Get a Kick Out of You4:01
- A7Do I Love You?3:51
- A8I’m Always True to You in My Fashion2:50
- B1Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love)3:33
- B2Just One of Those Things3:32
- B3Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye3:34
- B4All of You1:45
- B5Begin the Beguine3:39
- B6Get Out of Town3:24
- B7I Am in Love4:08
- B8From This Moment On3:16
- C1I Love Paris4:56
- C2You Do Something to Me2:20
- C3Ridin’ High3:17
- C4Easy to Love3:24
- C5It’s All Right With Me3:06
- C6Why Can’t You Behave?5:04
- C7What Is This Thing Called Love?2:01
- C8You’re the Top3:37
- D1Love for Sale5:52
- D2It’s Delovely2:04
- D3Night and Day3:02
- D4Ace in the Hole1:57
- D5So in Love3:50
- D6I’ve Got You Under My Skin2:43
- D7I Concentrate on You3:12
- D8Don’t Fence Me In3:18
32 tracks, 107 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Label
- Verve
- Released
- 1956
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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