Somebody Nobody Loves - Ella Fitzgerald, Miller, Seymour
You Don't Know What Love Is - Ella Fitzgerald, DePaul, Gene
Make Love to Me - Ella Fitzgerald, Gannon, Kim
Mama, Come Home - Ella Fitzgerald, Battle, Edgar
My Heart and I Decided - Ella Fitzgerald, Donaldson, Walter
He's My Guy - Ella Fitzgerald, DePaul, Gene
Cow Cow Boogie - Ella Fitzgerald, Carter, Benny [1]
Time Alone Will Tell - Ella Fitzgerald, Gordon, Mack
Once Too Often [From Pin-Up Girl] - Ella Fitzgerald, Gordon, Mack
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - Ella Fitzgerald, Fisher, Doris
I'm Making Believe - Ella Fitzgerald, Gordon, Mack
And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine - Ella Fitzgerald, Greene, Joe [1]
I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) - Ella Fitzgerald, Daugherty, Doc
I'm Beginning to See the Light - Ella Fitzgerald, Ellington, Duke
That's the Way It Is - Ella Fitzgerald, Kramer, Alex C.
It's Only a Paper Moon [Take B][#] - Ella Fitzgerald, Arlen, Harold
Cry You Out of My Heart - Ella Fitzgerald, Heath, Hy
A Kiss Goodnight - Ella Fitzgerald, Herman, Woody
Benny's Coming Home on Saturday - Ella Fitzgerald, Fisher, Doris
Track Listings (22) - Disc #2
Flying Home [Take B][#] - Ella Fitzgerald, Goodman, Benny
Stone Cold Dead in the Market (He Had It Coming) - Ella Fitzgerald, Houdini, Wilmoth
Petootie Pie - Ella Fitzgerald, Leveen, Raymond
You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart) - Ella Fitzgerald, James, Freddie
The Frim Fram Sauce - Ella Fitzgerald, Evans, Redd
I'm Just a Lucky So and So - Ella Fitzgerald, David, Mack
I Didn't Mean a Word I Said - Ella Fitzgerald, Adamson, Harold
(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons - Ella Fitzgerald, Best, William
It's a Pity to Say Goodnight - Ella Fitzgerald, Gordon, Mack
Guilty - Ella Fitzgerald, Akst, Harry
Sentimental Journey - Ella Fitzgerald, Brown, Les
A Sunday Kind of Love - Ella Fitzgerald, Belle, Barbara
That's My Desire - Ella Fitzgerald, Kressa, Helmy
Oh, Lady Be Good - Ella Fitzgerald, Gershwin, George
Don't You Think I Ought to Know - Ella Fitzgerald, Johnson, William [1
You're Breakin' in a New Heart - Ella Fitzgerald, Drake, Ervin
I Want to Learn About Love - Ella Fitzgerald, Lee, Lester
That Old Feeling - Ella Fitzgerald, Brown, Lew
My Baby Likes to Be-Bop - Ella Fitzgerald, Bishop, Walter
No Sense - Ella Fitzgerald, Brown, Ray [1]
How High the Moon [1st Take][#] - Ella Fitzgerald, Hamilton, Nancy
How High the Moon [3rd Take][#] - Ella Fitzgerald, Hamilton, Nancy
This two-CD set provides a window on the varied pop and jazz styles that flourished in the period, as well as an excellent portrait of Ella Fitzgerald between 1941 and 1946. The material ranges far afield, mixing ballads a... more »nd period novelties like "Stone Cold Dead in the Market," with appearances by the Ink Spots and Louis Jordan. It's on the uptempo jazz tunes, however, that Fitzgerald reveals a new dimension of her talent, scat singing with the fluency and creativity of a first-rate instrumentalist. Her early grasp of bop is apparent in "Flying Home" and "My Baby Sleeps Like Bebop." --Stuart Broomer« less
This two-CD set provides a window on the varied pop and jazz styles that flourished in the period, as well as an excellent portrait of Ella Fitzgerald between 1941 and 1946. The material ranges far afield, mixing ballads and period novelties like "Stone Cold Dead in the Market," with appearances by the Ink Spots and Louis Jordan. It's on the uptempo jazz tunes, however, that Fitzgerald reveals a new dimension of her talent, scat singing with the fluency and creativity of a first-rate instrumentalist. Her early grasp of bop is apparent in "Flying Home" and "My Baby Sleeps Like Bebop." --Stuart Broomer
CD Reviews
A mixed bag
Sasha | at sea...sailing somewhere | 01/21/2000
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Its interesting to notice how long it took for Ella Fitzgerald to grow up as artist.In her Chick Webb days her voice was just a chubby little charming sound and during 40-ies she was still singing too many novelty tunes: judging from this material one would NEVER in million years guess what a giant of jazz music she would became in the next decade.I am sure it was not only big bad company excecutive who make her sing such a silly songs as "Stone Cold Dead In the Market" (!), Ella herself obviously had some weaknes for novelties as well and it would need a strong personality of Norman Granz to point her in the right direction 10 years later, with his Songbook series.To enjoy this double CD one has to program the listening track, choosing best songs instead playing everything simply because her talent was wasted on too many ditties of the day.Presence of such guests as Ink Spots,The Delta Rhytm Boys and Louis Jordan was a good marketing trick, but most of this songs have did not age gracefully as Ella's later work for Verve.For lovers of 40-ies music this double CD is obligatory and I was curious to hear Fitzgerald's growth as a singer from 30-ies Band vocalist to 50-ies Songbook legend, but too much of this music is forgettable!"
Track Listings (21) - Disc #1