The deluxe set was packaged in a walnut box, with the five Buffet paintings issued as detachable lithographs. A deluxe edition was also available priced at $100 (equivalent to $1,004 in 2022). The mono album was priced at $25 (equivalent to $251 in 2022) and the stereo at $30 (equivalent to $301 in 2022). The album was released in mono and stereo. The liner notes were written by Laurence D. The French painter Bernard Buffet created five paintings that were used as artworks for the five individual LPs that made the original album release. In 2000 it was voted number 473 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. Granz memorably suggested that Fitzgerald sing " Oh, Lady Be Good!" as a slow ballad rather than the fast tempo version which had become renowned as a showcase for her scat singing. Ira also revised some of his lyrics for the album. The songs were written by Ira and his brother George between 19. Gershwin helped Fitzgerald, Granz and Riddle with the selection of songs. Ira Gershwin subsequently said that "I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them". It is one of the eight album releases comprising what is possibly Fitzgerald's greatest musical legacy: Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Complete American Songbook, in which she recorded, with top arrangers and musicians, a comprehensive collection of both well-known and obscure songs from the Great American Songbook canon, written by the likes of Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer.įitzgerald's recording of " But Not for Me" won the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female. Fifty-nine songs were recorded in the span of eight months in 1959. It was produced by Norman Granz, Fitzgerald's manager and the founder of Verve Records. Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for SwingersĮlla Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song BookĮlla Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book is a box set by American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald that contains songs by George and Ira Gershwin with arrangements by Nelson Riddle.
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