Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 21st November 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

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 Songbook. 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, and Ted Nash, and 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’. Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging. 

Tracklist:

Side A

Have You Met Miss Jones?

You Took Advantage Of Me

A Ship Without A Sail

To Keep My Love Alive

Dancing On The Ceiling

The Lady Is A Tramp

With A Song In My Heart

Manhattan

Side B

Johnny One Note

I Wish I Were In Love Again

Spring Is Here

It Never Entered My Mind

This Can't Be Love

Thou Swell

My Romance

Where Or When

Little Girl Blue

Side C

Give It Back To The Indians

Ten Cents A Dance

There's A Small Hotel

I Didn't Know What Time It Was

Everything I've Got

I Could Write A Book

Blue Room

My Funny Valentine

Side D

Bewitched

Mountain Greenery

Wait Til You See Her

Lover

Isn't It Romantic

Here In My Arms

Blue Moon

My Heart Stood Still

I've Got Five Dollars

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