Along with Billie Holiday and other contemporaries like Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald was one of the great singers to emerge from the golden age of jazz singing as a premier exponent of an art form which often crossed over into the popular music world, although this crossover very rarely compromised the artistic integrity we associate them. This collection traces the first decade of her recording career, starting with Chick Webb and His Orchestra, and recording with her own band, before taking over when Webb died, and then going solo. It shows her development from talented but inexperienced band singer to versatile star adept at delivering a range of material with maturity and subtlety. It is a fascinating and always entertaining musical journey
24 Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That Cha Do It)
- Disc 3 -
1 One Side of Me
2 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
3 Sugar Pie
4 It's Slumbertime Along the Swanee
5 Chew Chew Chew (Your Bubble Gum)
6 Don't Worry 'Bout Me
7 If That's What You're Thinking You're Wrong
8 If You Ever Change Your Mind
9 Little White Lies
10 Coochi-Coochi-Coo
11 That Was My Heart
12 Betcha Nickel
13 Stairway to the Stars
14 I Want the Waiter (With the Water)
15 That's All, Brother
16 Out of Nowhere
17 My Last Goodbye
18 Billy (I Always Dream of Billy)
19 I'm Not Complainin'
20 You're Gonna Lose Your Gal
21 What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry
22 My Wubba Dolly
23 Sugar Blues
24 The Starlit Hour
- Disc 4 -
1 Baby Won't You Please Come Home?
2 Deedle-De-Dum
3 Shake Down the Stars
4 Gulf Coast Blues
5 Five O'Clock Whistle
6 So Long
7 Louisville, K-Y
8 Taking a Chance on Love
9 I'm the Loneliest Gal in Town
10 Three Little Words
11 Hello Ma! I Done It Again
12 The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)
13 Keep Cool, Fool
14 My Man
15 I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
16 I Must Have That Man
17 When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
18 I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
19 Melinda the Mousie
20 Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
21 Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
22 It's Only a Paper Moon
23 Flying Home
24 Stone Cold Dead in the Market
25 Petootie Pie
26 That's Rich
Along with Billie Holiday and other contemporaries like Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald was one of the great singers to emerge from the golden age of jazz singing as a premier exponent of an art form which often crossed over into the popular music world, although this crossover very rarely compromised the artistic integrity we associate them. This collection traces the first decade of her recording career, starting with Chick Webb and His Orchestra, and recording with her own band, before taking over when Webb died, and then going solo. It shows her development from talented but inexperienced band singer to versatile star adept at delivering a range of material with maturity and subtlety. It is a fascinating and always entertaining musical journey
