Ella Fitzgerald - Retrospective 1936 - 1956 FLAC download

Tracklist

CD01 - 01	Vote For Mr. Rhythm
CD01 - 02	My Love Goodnight
CD01 - 03	Dedicated To You
CD01 - 04	The Dipsy Doodle
CD01 - 05	I Want To Be Happy
CD01 - 06	A-Tisket A-Tasket
CD01 - 07	Strictly From Dixie
CD01 - 08	My Heart Belongs To Daddy
CD01 - 09	Undecided
CD01 - 10	Moon Ray
CD01 - 11	Sugar Blues
CD01 - 12	Cabin In The Sky
CD01 - 13	Come Home Mama
CD01 - 14	Jim
CD01 - 15	And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine
CD01 - 16	Cow-Cow Boogie (Cuma Ti-Yi-Yi-Ay)
CD01 - 17	He's My Guy
CD01 - 18	It's Only A Paper Moon
CD01 - 19	A Kiss Goodnight
CD01 - 20	I'm Beginning To See The Light
CD01 - 21	Stone Cold Dead In The Market
CD01 - 22	Benny's Coming Home On Saturday
CD01 - 23	Petootie Pie
CD01 - 24	Flying Home
CD02 - 01	You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)
CD02 - 02	The Frim Fram Sauce
CD02 - 03	I'm Just A Lucky So-and-So
CD02 - 04	(I Love You) For Senitimental Reasons
CD02 - 05	A Sunday Kind Of Love
CD02 - 06	My Baby Likes To Be-Bop
CD02 - 07	That Old Feeling
CD02 - 08	Lady Be Good Oh
CD02 - 09	Robbin's Nest
CD02 - 10	How High The Moon
CD02 - 11	Happy Talk
CD02 - 12	Basin Street Blues
CD02 - 13	I Hadn't Anyone Till You
CD02 - 14	It's Cold Outside Baby
CD02 - 15	Black Coffee
CD02 - 16	Don' Chago' Way Mad
CD02 - 17	I've Got The World On A String
CD02 - 18	Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own
CD02 - 19	Dream A Lttle Dream Of Me
CD02 - 20	Looking For A Boy
CD02 - 21	How Long Has This Been Goin On?
CD02 - 22	Soon
CD02 - 23	Budella (Blue Skies)
CD02 - 24	How High the Moon
CD03 - 01	Smooth Sailing
CD03 - 02	Would You Like To Take A Walk?
CD03 - 03	Who Walks In When I Walk Out?
CD03 - 04	Rough Ridin'
CD03 - 05	(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have To Swing It (Mr. Pagagini)
CD03 - 06	Blue Lou
CD03 - 07	Makin' Whoopee
CD03 - 08	Preview
CD03 - 09	Angel Eyes
CD03 - 10	Ella's Contribution To The Blues
CD03 - 11	That Old Black Magic
CD03 - 12	April In Paris
CD03 - 13	The Party Blues
CD03 - 14	Night And Day
CD03 - 15	Let's Do It
CD03 - 16	Air Mail Special
CD03 - 17	My Funny Valentine
CD03 - 18	Cheek To Cheek
CD03 - 19	The Nearness Of You
CD03 - 20	Isn't This A Lovely Day

Notes

Born in Newport News, Virginia in 1917, Ella Fitzgerald moved with her mother to New York after the death of her father. Living in Yonkers, Fitzgerald attended public school, where she sang in the glee club and received her musical education. After her early success at the Apollo, and as a popular performer at a number of other amateur venues, Fitzgerald was invited to join Chick Webb’s band. Within a short while she was the star attraction, and had made a number hits including her trademark “A-tisket, A-tasket” . After Webb’s death in 1939, Fitzgerald led the band for three years.

During her time with Webb’s band, Fitzgerald recorded with a number of other musicians, including Benny Goodman. By the time she began her solo career in the mid-1940s, she was a well-respected figure throughout the music industry. Her vibrant and energetic voice showed an exceptional range and control. Performing with “Jazz at the Philharmonic,” her popularity grew beyond the music world. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she continued to perform as a jazz musician, but concentrated primarily on popular music. Rivaled only by Frank Sinatra, her recordings of work by Cole Porter, Ira and George Gershwin, and Rogers and Hart were incredibly successful.

One of the early “scat” performers, Fitzgerald found a place among the growing jazz innovators, making recordings with such greats as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong. Her true genius, however, was not formal innovation or deeper expression, but artistic renderings of the enthusiastic songs of her time. “I’m very shy, and I shy away from people,” Ella once said. “But the moment I hit the stage, it’s a different feeling. I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it’s because it’s something I love to do.” More than anything, it is this love of performing that won her the hearts of millions throughout the world.

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