Ella Sings Broadway
Ella Sings Broadway | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1963 | |||
Recorded | October 1–4, 1962 | |||
Studio | Capitol (Hollywood) | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 34:08 | |||
Label | Verve | |||
Producer | Norman Granz | |||
Ella Fitzgerald chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Ella Sings Broadway is a 1963 (see
This album is a musical departure for Ella in many senses. As the author David Hajdu comments in his liner notes for the 2001 reissue of Ella Sings Broadway , virtually every important singer of standards had recorded an album of musical-theatre songs, Sinatra with My Kind of Broadway and The Concert Sinatra (an album often mistaken for a live recording), Sarah Vaughan with Great Songs From Hit Shows and Doris Day with Show Time .[4]
These singers, especially Sinatra and Fitzgerald, had acquired a reputation of being consummate performers of the
standards having been written in the 1920s and 1930s, whilst Sinatra and Fitzgerald were growing up.On Ella Sings Broadway , Ella connects with the Broadway songs of the previous decade and a half, vastly different in musical terms to the Great American Songbook standards from 40 years previously.
The twelve songs are from eight musicals, being;
- "Warm All Over" and "Somebody Somewhere" from Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella (1956)
- "Guys and Dolls(1950)
- "Brigadoon(1947)
- "I Could Have Danced All Night" and "Show Me" from Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady (1956)
- "No Other Love" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Me and Juliet (1953)
- "Dites-Moi" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific (1949)
- "Hernando's Hideaway" and "Steam Heat" from Adler and Ross's Pajama Game(1954)
- "Whatever Lola Wants" from Adler and Ross's Damn Yankees (1955)
Awarded 4 stars by
Track listing
For the 1963 Verve LP release; Verve V6-4059; Re-issued in 2001 on CD, Verve 549 373-2
Side One:
- "Hernando's Hideaway" (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) – 3:17
- "If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser) – 2:22
- "Warm All Over" (Loesser) – 2:46
- "Almost Like Being in Love" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 3:02
- "Dites-Moi" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:30
- "I Could Have Danced All Night" (Lerner, Loewe) – 2:22
Side Two:
- "Show Me" (Lerner, Loewe) – 2:22
- "No Other Love" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 2:20
- "Steam Heat" (Adler, Ross) – 3:27
- "Whatever Lola Wants" (Adler, Ross) – 3:13
- "Guys and Dolls" (Loesser) – 2:21
- "Somebody Somewhere" (Loesser) – 3:12
Personnel
Recorded October 3, 4 & 9, 1962 at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles:
- Val Valentin - Engineer
Tracks 1-12
- Ella Fitzgerald - vocals
- Frank DeVol- arranger, conductor
Others Unknown.
References
- Allmusic. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
- New Record Mirror. No. 132. p. 10. Archived from the original(PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Sleeve notes; CD re-issue 2001 Ella Sings Broadway issued on Verve 549 373-2. (Notes by David Hajdu)