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Ella Fitzgerald -InchSings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series)Inch The second of her celebrated song book albums and heralded as one of the best vocal jazz albums ever made, Ella and arranger/conductor Buddy Bregman began work on the Rodgers and Hart sessions three months after the of her Cole Porter Song Book. Like it's predecessor, it features the cream of West Coast session musicians, many of whom graced the fabulous recordings that Frank Sinatra was making around the same time in the same studio. Maynard Ferguson (trumpet), Milt Bernhart (trombone), Herb Geller, Ted Nash & Bud Shank (reeds), Barney Kessel (guitar), and Alvin Stoller (drums). The album is full of standards that everyone knows and loves, but in Ella's hands these songs become even more special. Standouts include InchThere's a Small Hotel,Inch InchYou Took Advantage of Me,Inch and the perennial, InchMy Funny Valentine.Inch Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180g vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging. Album Tracks 1. Have You Met Miss Jones? 2. You Took Advantage of Me 3. A Ship Without a Sail 4. To Keep My Love Alive 5. Dancing on the Ceiling 6. The Lady Is a Tramp 7. With a Song in My Heart 8. Manhattan 1. Johnny One Note 2. I Wish I Were in Love Again 3. Spring Is Here 4. It Never Entered My Mind 5. This Can't Be Love 6. Thou Swell 7. My Romance 8. Where or When 9 9. Little Girl Blue 1. Give It Back to the Indians 2. Ten Cents a Dance 3. There's a Small Hotel 4. I Didn't Know What Time It Was 5. Ev'rything I've Got 6. I Could Write a Book 7. The Blue Room 8. My Funny Valentine 1. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered 2. Mountain Greenery 3. Wait Till You See Her 4. Lover 5. Isn't It Romantic? 6. Here in My Arms 7. Blue Moon 8. My Heart Stood Still 9. I've Got
