Album:

Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book


Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book is a 1956 studio double album by American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs of Cole Porter.

This album inaugurated Fitzgerald's Song Book series, each of the eight albums in the series focusing on a different composer of the canon known as the Great American Songbook.

This album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance." In 2003, it was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

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The Track Listing is:

Disc One, side one - All Through the Night, Anything Goes, Miss Otis Regrets, Too Darn Hot, In the Still of the Night, I Get a Kick Out of You, Do I Love You?, and Always True to You in My Fashion.

Disc One, side two - Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love, Just One of Those Things, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, All of You, Begin the Beguine, Get Out of Town, I Am in Love, and From This Moment On.

Disc Two, side one - I Love Paris, You Do Something to Me, Ridin' High, You'd Be So Easy to Love, It's All Right with Me, Why Can't You Behave, What Is This Thing Called Love?, and You're the Top.

Disc Two, side two - Love for Sale, It's De-Lovely, Night and Day, Ace in the Hole, So in Love, I've Got You Under My Skin, I Concentrate on You, and Don't Fence Me In.

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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Col Porter Songbook - 1956