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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook, Vol. 2

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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook, Vol. 2

 
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Label: Polygram Records
Rating: 5.0
 
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Description: Only Frank Sinatra has put his indelible stamp on as many pages of the American Popular Songbook as Ella Fitzgerald. But while Sinatra specialized in mood-themed albums (his composer-based collections were compiled from material already released), Fitzgerald's ambitious songbooks devoted themselves to one great songwriter after another: Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, and so on. The two-volume Rodgers and Hart project ranks with the best, and if Buddy Bergman's arrangements are a bit sweeter than his Cole Porter settings, or Nelson Riddle's Gershwin treatments, they suit the material just fine. And what a wide range of material it is (with original verses intact!), intermingling novelty show tunes ("Give it Back to the Indians," "Johnny One Note"), sophisticated standards ("Manhattan," "Blue Moon," "The Lady is a Tramp"), and lush ballads ("Isn't it Romantic," "It Never Entered My Mind"). But for my money, the most exquisite thing Fitzgerald ever recorded is her seven-minute "Bewitched" (a.k.a. "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered") on Vol. 2, casting a spell of hushed reverie that makes time stand still. --Jim Emerson
 
 

 
Tracklist of Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook, Vol. 2

Disc 1
1 Give It Back To The Indians  3:15 no lyrics yet - submit it
2 Ten Cents A Dance  4:10 no lyrics yet - submit it
3 There's A Small Hotel  2:49 no lyrics yet - submit it
4 I Didn't Know What Time It Was  3:48 no lyrics yet - submit it
5 I Could Write A Book  3:40 no lyrics yet - submit it
6 My Funny Valentine  3:54 view lyrics
7 Bewitched  7:04 no lyrics yet - submit it
8 My Romance  3:46 no lyrics yet - submit it
9 Wait Till You See Her  1:33 no lyrics yet - submit it
10 Lover  3:17 no lyrics yet - submit it
11 Isn't It Romantic  3:04 no lyrics yet - submit it
12 Blue Moon  3:12 view lyrics
13 Mountain Greenery  2:17 no lyrics yet - submit it
14 Here In My Arms  1:56 no lyrics yet - submit it
15 Everything I've Got  3:24 no lyrics yet - submit it
16 Thou Swell  2:07 no lyrics yet - submit it
17 My Heart Stood Still  3:07 no lyrics yet - submit it

Reviews:

Bewitching

What a pleasure it's been to discover how this album improves with each listening. Great songs performed by a great voice. Several of these songs exist in better-known versions by other artists--but better-known doesn't necessarily mean better. Highlights include Ella's bittersweet rendering of "Ten Cents a Dance," the upbeat "Mountain Greenery," her slow, lyrical "Blue Moon." And her performance here of "Bewitched" is unsurpassed. That alone is worth the price of the CD.

Great CD of Ella's!

The two that comes to mind on this CD is 'Isn't It Romantic' and 'Bewitched'. To me, these two songs were truly written for Ella Fitzgerald by Rodgers & Hart!!

I've listen to other performers singing 'Isn't It Romantic' like Tony Bennett, and he can not even come close to the special romantic feeling that Ella has for this song. Something that came directly from her soul!

Those two songs and the others are a good example why you should buy this album.

There is no praise high enough to describe this combination

This is music that will live foreve