Release date: 17-11-2011 (originally released in 1957 )

2011 dutch issue limited edition 34-track mono 2-LP set vinyl LP , pressiong on 180 grams audiophile vinyl.=t s something everyone has experienced: whether at one of the great jazz festivals in Berlin, Montreux or Paris, or in a small, provincial jazz club which exudes the charm of a dingy jazz cavern in the Fifties - you sit, listen, and then rack your brain to remember the name of the number which the young jazz musician is playing with all his heart. Just what was the name?
Put the "Ella Sings The Rodgers And Hart Song Book" album on your turntable and you re guaranteed to recall MyFunny Valentine , Blue Moon and It Never Entered My Mind. All these and many more excellent ballads flowed out of the pens of the songwriting team - and each and every one of them is a winner.=sealed


Tracks:
LP 1
01. Have You Met Miss Jones?
02. You Took Advantage Of Me
03. A Ship Without A Sail
04. To Keep My Love Alive
05. Dancing On The Ceiling
06. The Lady Is A Tramp
07. With A Song In My Heart
08. Manhattan
09. Johnny One Note
10. I Wish I Were In Love Again
11. Spring Is Here
12. It Never Entered My Mind
13. This Can't Be Love
14. Thou Swell
15. My Romance
16. Where Or When
17. Little Girl Blue

LP2
01. Give It Back To The Indians
02. Ten Cents A Dance
03. There's A Small Hotel
04. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
05. Ev'rything I've Got
06. I Could Write A Book
07. Blue Room
08. My Funny Valentine
09. Bewitched
10. Mountain Greenery
11. Wait Till You See Her
12. Lover
13. Isn't It Romantic
14. Here In My Arms
15. Blue Moon
16. My Heart Stood Still
17. I've Got Five Dollars

It s something everyone has experienced: whether at one of the great jazz festivals in Berlin, Montreux or Paris, or in a small, provincial jazz club which exudes the charm of a dingy jazz cavern in the Fifties - you sit, listen, and then rack your brain to remember the name of the number which the young jazz musician is playing with all his heart. Just what was the name?
Put the "Ella Sings The Rodgers And Hart Song Book" album on your turntable and you re guaranteed to recall MyFunny Valentine , Blue Moon and It Never Entered My Mind. All these and many more excellent ballads flowed out of the pens of the songwriting team - and each and every one of them is a winner.
But don t make the mistake of associating merely scat singing taken at a cracking pace with the most famous (the name Ella is a fully adequate epithet) and the BEST (for that s what she is and she will remain so!) jazz vocalist between 1930 and 1995: this album more than demonstrates her excellent powers of expression and her brilliant modulations. The ballads are done true justice in these sensitive, almost subdued arrangements by the West Coast film music expert Buddy Bregman, which put Ella s voice, Richard Rodgers melodies and Lorenz Hart s lyrics in the limelight. With the exception of  Blue Moon, all the numbers are themes taken from Broadway musicals, virtually none of which will ever have been seen by us, but whose evergreen melodies will remain in our memories for ever.
What is more, there is a special treat for us in store on this album: three titles are now appearing on stereo-LP for the very first time. A further milestone along the road of jazz singing is at last re-released with this song book: it constitutes an important documentation of Ella s musical path which began with the children s song  A-tisket, a-tasket .

Ella Fitzgerald (voc); Ben Webster (ts); Paul Smith (p); Barney Kessel (g); Stuff Smith (v); Joe Mandragon (b); Alvin Stoller (dr); and the Buddy Bregman Orchestra (strings and horns)

Recording: August 1956 at Capitol Records Studios, Hollywood (CA)
Production: Norman Granz