Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Rodgers And Hart Song Book (Acoustic Sounds Series)

The second of her celebrated song book albums and heralded as one of the best vocal jazz albums ever made, Ella and arranger/conductor Buddy Bregman began work on the Rodgers and Hart sessions three months after the release of her Cole Porter Song Book. Like its predecessor, it features the cream of West Coast session musicians, many of whom graced the fabulous recordings that Frank Sinatra was making around the same time in the same studio. Maynard Ferguson (trumpet), Milt Bernhart (trombone), Herb Geller, Ted Nash & Bud Shank (reeds), Barney Kessel (guitar), and Alvin Stoller (drums).

The album is full of standards that everyone knows and loves, but in Ella's hands these songs become even more special. Standouts include "There's a Small Hotel", "You Took Advantage of Me", and the perennial, "My Funny Valentine".

All records in this series are mastered from the original analog tapes, pressed on 180-gram vinyl and packaged by Stoughton Printing Co. in high-quality gatefold sleeves with tip-on jackets.

Heavyweight 2LP vinyl produced by Verve Records for their 'Acoustic Sounds Series' in 2026.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Have You Met Miss Jones?
2. You Took Advantage of Me
3. A Ship without a Sail
4. To Keep My Love Alive
5. Dancing on the Ceiling
6. The Lady Is a Tramp
7. With a Song in My Heart
8. Manhattan
9. Johnny One Note
10. I Wish I Were in Love Again
11. Spring Is Here
12. It Never Entered My Mind
13. This Can't Be Love
14. Thou Swell
15. My Romance
16. Where or When
17. Little Girl Blue
18. Give It Back to the Indians
19. Ten Cents a Dance
20. There's a Small Hotel
21. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
22. Ev'rything I've Got
23. I Could Write a Book
24. The Blue Room
25. My Funny Valentine
26. Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
27. Mountain Greenery
28. Wait Till You See Her
29. Lover
30. Isn't It Romantic?
31. Here in My Arms
32. Blue Moon
33. My Heart Stood Still
34. I've Got Five Dollars