Volume 2 - Harold Arlen Songbook

Fitzgerald, Ella

Fitzgerald, Ella / Volume 2 - Harold Arlen Songbook
Format: CD Album
Released: Mon 23 Sep 1991
Catalogue Number: 8175282

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Description:
Personnel includes: Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Billy May (arranger, conductor); Ted Nash (alto saxophone); Plas Johnson (tenor saxophone); Don Fagerquist (trumpet); Milt Bernhart, Dick Nash (trombone); Paul Smith (piano); Joe Mondragon (bass); Alvin Stoller (drums).
Recorded at Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, California. Includes liner notes by Benny Green & Edward Jablonski.
Digitally remastered by Dennis Drake (PolyGram Studios).
Though it was recorded in the same August 1960 sessions as the first volume of THE HAROLD ARLEN SONGBOOK, volume two is anything but leftovers. While perhaps not a household name to the extent of previous Ella Fitzgerald Songbook honorees Duke Ellington, Rodgers & Hart, or Cole Porter, Harold Arlen--alongside his usual collaborator, lyricist Johnny Mercer--is every bit their equal as a songwriter.
Billy May arranged and conducted these big-band sessions, and his typically swinging charts suit both Fitzgerald's magnificent voice and the ingratiating material beautifully. Arlen's tunes range from mournful classics like "One For My Baby"--and Fitzgerald's version here gives Sinatra's better-known rendition a run for its money--to sprightly gems like "It's Only a Paper Moon." As always, Fitzgerald covers this range of material with ease. Both volumes of THE HAROLD ARLEN SONGBOOK are essential for Arlen and/or Fitzgerald fans, but this one might have the edge over its predecessor.

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Track Listing:

1.  When the Sun Comes Out
2.  Come Rain or Come Shine
3.  As Long As I Live
4.  Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe
5.  Its Only a Paper Moon
6.  Man That Got Away, The
7.  One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
8.  It Was Written in the Stars
9.  Get Happy
10.  I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
11.  Out of This World
12.  Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead - (CD Only)
13.  Over the Rainbow

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