Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald: Hits & Rarities '2022

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. All Of You
02. Wait Till You See Her
03. Ringo Beat
04. Lover, Come Back To Me
05. Cool Breeze
06. Oh, Doctor Jesus
07. Russian Lullaby
08. Ace In The Hole
09. What You Want Wid Bess?
10. Here In My Arms
11. Jamboree
12. Come On-A My House
13. What Is This Thing Called Love?
14. Thou Swell
15. You're The Top
16. The Sweetest Sounds
17. Pick Yourself Up
18. Desafinado
19. Solitude
20. Cheerful Little Earful
21. Mountain Greenery
22. Let Yourself Go
23. You've Got What Gets Me
24. The Greatest There Is
25. You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me
26. Hear My Heart
27. Puttin' On The Ritz
28. Reaching For The Moon
29. Just You Just Me
30. Who Walks In When I Walk Out?
31. Old McDonald
32. I Don't Want The World (With A Fence Around It)
33. This Year's Kisses
34. My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean
35. A-Tisket, A-Tasket
36. I Hear Music
37. Azure
38. You Do Something To Me
39. Wives And Lovers
40. Heat Wave
41. M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I
42. You Make Me Feel So Young
43. If I Were A Bell
44. Soon
45. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
46. I Remember You
47. Slumming On Park Avenue
48. No Other Love
49. I Want To Learn About Love
50. I Could Have Danced All Night
51. Show Me
52. Comes Love
53. Clap Yo' Hands
54. By Strauss
55. But Not For Me
56. Beale Street Blues
57. Reach For Tomorrow
58. Flying Home
59. The Song Is Ended
60. Walkin' By The River
61. Lullaby Of Broadway
62. All By Myself
63. That Old Feeling
64. Misty Blue
65. Goody, Goody
66. It's A Lovely Day Today
67. Pete Kelly's Blues
68. Happy Talk
69. You're Breakin' In A New Heart
70. Vote For Mister Rhythm
71. Moonlight On The Ganges
72. Too Marvelous For Words
73. Later
74. It's A Pity To Say Goodnight
75. Petootie Pie
76. Dites Moi
77. Dreams Are Made For Children
78. Call Me Darling
79. Darn That Dream
80. Can't Buy Me Love
81. I Used To Be Color Blind
82. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
83. Music Goes Round And Around
84. I Wish I Were In Love Again
85. Top Hat, White Tie, And Tails
86. Stay There
87. Something's Gotta Give
88. My One And Only
89. It's Only A Paper Moon
90. Somebody Loves Me
91. Bess Oh Where Is My Bess
92. A Satisfied Mind
93. You Turned The Tables On Me
94. I've Got A Feelin' I'm Fallin'
95. Baby Don't You Go Away Mad
96. Little White Lies
97. Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?
98. I'm A Poached Egg Without Toast
99. I'm Fallin' In Love
100. You're An Old Smoothie
101. Hallelujah, I Love Him So
102. Strike Up The Band
103. Somebody Bad Stole De Wedding Bell (Who's Got The Ding Dong?)
104. Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar
105. A Beautiful Friendship
106. Lazy
107. Runnin' Wild
108. No Moon At All
109. I Need
110. The Chesapeake And Ohio
111. See, See Rider
112. I Don't Like You No More
113. Moanin' Low
114. Volare
115. In The Still Of The Night
116. I've Got Five Dollars
117. Honeysuckle Rose
118. Wake Up And Live
119. Baby It's Cold Outside
120. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)
121. In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down)
122. Alexander's Ragtime Band
123. My Baby Likes To Bebop (And I Like To Bebop Too)
124. Bidin' My Time
125. Hooray For Love
126. Old Mother Hubbard
127. Stone Cold Dead In The Market
128. All the Live Long Day
129. Clementine
130. What's Your Story Morning Glory
131. What Does It Take
132. Gypsy In My Soul
133. Ella
134. Necessary Evil
135. If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
136. I Wished On The Moon
137. If You Don't, I Know Who Will
138. My Favorite Song
139. This Could Be The Start Of Something Big
140. You Hit The Spot
141. Cry You Out Of My Heart
142. Tea Leaves
143. Alone Together
144. Big Boy Blue
145. (I Was) Born To Be Blue
146. I'm Beginning To See The Light
147. Baby
148. Day In Day Out
149. It's DeLovely
150. In A Sentimental Mood
151. How's Chances?
152. With A Song In My Heart
153. Out Of This World
154. Guys And Dolls
155. I Never Had A Chance
156. It's A Blue World
157. When The Hands Of The Clock Pray At Midnight
158. Place For Lovers
159. He Loves And She Loves
160. I've Got You Under My Skin
161. Beginning to See The Light (Reimagined)
162. Sing My Heart
163. Molasses, Molasses (It's Icky Sticky Goo)
164. Blue Lou
165. Broadway
166. I Can't Be Bothered Now
167. Show Me The Way To Go Out Of This World 'Cause That's Where Everything Is
168. What Am I Here For?
169. The Impatient Years
170. Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
171. Always True To You In My Fashion
172. Where Or When
173. Love Is The Thing, So They Say
174. Yesterdays
175. The Very Thought Of You
176. She's Just A Quiet Girl
177. There Never Was A Baby Like My Baby
178. Love Me Or Leave Me
179. I Thought About You
180. Careless
181. Warm All Over
182. The Silent Treatment
183. F.D.R. Jones
184. I'll Always Be In Love With You
185. Misty
186. Who's Afraid (Not I, Not I, Not I)
187. There's A Small Hotel
188. Stairway To The Stars
189. Matchmaker, Matchmaker
190. Memories Of You
191. 720 In The Books
192. Manhattan
193. I Can't Go On (Without You)
194. Fairy Tales
195. Gotta Pebble In My Shoe


 moreBorn in 1917 in Newport News, Virginia, Fitzgerald grew up in a
working-class family in Yonkers, New York. Her parents split up soon after her
birth, and she was largely raised by her mother, Temperance "Tempie" Fitzgerald,
and her mother's boyfriend Joseph "Joe" Da Silva. She also had a younger
half-sister, Frances, who was born in 1923. To help with the family's finances,
Fitzgerald often worked odd jobs including, at times, running bet money for
local gamblers. By her teens, the self-professed tomboy was active in sports and
often played in local baseball games. Influenced by her mother, she also enjoyed
singing and dancing, and spent many hours singing along to records by Bing
Crosby, Connee Boswell, and the Boswell Sisters. She also began taking the train
to see shows with friends at Harlem's Apollo Theater. In 1932, her mother died
from injuries sustained in a car accident. Deeply distraught over the loss,
Fitzgerald went through a difficult period that found her skipping school and
getting in trouble with the police. She was subsequently sent to a reform
school, where she endured abuse by her caretakers. Eventually breaking free from
the reformatory, she found herself on her own in New York during the height of
the Great Depression. Despite her struggles, she worked to pursue her love of
performing. In 1934, she entered and won an amateur contest at the Apollo,
singing Hoagy Carmichael's "Judy" in the style of her idol, Connee Boswell. In
the house band that night was saxophonist Benny Carter, who took the young
vocalist under his wing and encouraged her to keep developing her career.

More contests followed, and in 1935 Fitzgerald won a weeklong spot singing with
Tiny Bradshaw at the Harlem Opera House. There, she met influential drummer
Chick Webb, who agreed to try her out with his orchestra at a one-nighter at
Yale University. She won the crowd over, and spent the next few years with the
drummer, who became her legal guardian and reworked his show to feature the
singer. The band's fame grew exponentially with Fitzgerald, as they dominated at
the Savoy battle of the bands, and issued a string of Decca 78s, scoring hits "A
Tisket-A-Tasket," in 1938, and the B-side "T'aint What You Do (It's the Way That
You Do It)," as well as "Liza," and "Undecided." As the singer's career was on
the rise, Webb's health had begun to decline. Though only in his thirties, the
drummer, who had struggled with congenital spinal tuberculosis throughout his
life, would purportedly collapse from exhaustion after playing a set.
Nonetheless, he forged onwards, hoping to keep his band working through the
Depression. In 1939, not long after undergoing major surgery at Johns Hopkins
Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, Webb died. Following his death, Fitzgerald
continued to front his band with much success until 1941, when she decided to
pursue a solo career.

Sticking with Decca, Fitzgerald was teamed with the Ink Spots, Louis Jordan, and
the Delta Rhythm Boys for several best-sellers, and in 1946 began working
regularly for manager Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic. Though often
regarded as a pop vocalist during her time with Webb, Fitzgerald had begun to
experiment with scat singing, a sound she further developed during these years.
She toured with Dizzy Gillespie's big band, and soon adopted bebop as an
integral part of her style, punctuating her live sets with instrumental-style
scat solos that wowed audiences and earned her respect from her fellow
musicians. Her recordings of "Lady Be Good," "How High the Moon," and "Flying
Home" during 1945-1947 were released to great acclaim and helped solidify her
stature as a major jazz vocalist. It was while working with Gillespie that she
met and married bassist Ray Brown, living with him from 1947 to 1953, during
which time she often performed with his trio. The couple also adopted a son, Ray
Brown, Jr., (born to Fitzgerald's half-sister Frances in 1949) who would go on
to his own career as a pianist and vocalist. In 1951, the singer paired with
pianist Ellis Larkins for the duets album Ella Sings Gershwin, on which she
interpreted George Gershwin songs, prefiguring her later Songbooks series.

After appearing in the film Pete Kelly's Blues in 1955, Fitzgerald signed with
Norman Granz's Verve label. Her longtime manager, Granz had specifically
launched Verve with the sole purpose of better showcasing her voice. Beginning
with 1956's Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, she would record an extensive series
of Songbooks albums, interpreting the music of the Great American Songbook
composers, including Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers & Hart, Duke
Ellington, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer. The prestigious albums,
which earned Fitzgerald her first four Grammys at the 1959 and 1958 Grammy
Awards, further raised her stature as one of the great singers of all time.
Other soon-to-be-classic albums followed, including her 1956 pairing with Louis
Armstrong Ella & Louis, 1957's Like Someone in Love, and 1958's Porgy and Bess
with Armstrong. Also under Granz's guidance, Fitzgerald toured often, issuing a
handful of highly regarded live concert albums. Among them, 1960's Ella in
Berlin included her off-the-cuff take on "Mack the Knife" in which she forgot
the lyrics and improvised her own. One of the best-selling albums of her career,
Ella in Berlin earned her Grammy Awards for Best Vocal Performance Single Record
or Track, Female, and Best Vocal Performance Album, Female. The album was later
inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

Verve was sold to MGM in 1963, and by 1967 Fitzgerald found herself without a
contract. She spent the next few years recording for a number of labels like
Capitol, Atlantic and Reprise. Her albums during these years also found her
updating her repertoire with modern pop and rock songs such as Cream's "Sunshine
of Your Love" and the Beatles' "Hey Jude." She sang traditional hymns on 1967's
Brighten the Corner, while 1969's Ella included her last U.S. chart single with
a cover of Smokey Robinson's "Get Ready." Nonetheless, Fitzgerald remained an
immensely popular and highly regarded performer. In 1967, she was bestowed with
the Bing Crosby Award (later named the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award) at the
10th Annual Grammy Awards.

However, her later years were again marked by the influence of Granz after he
founded the independent Pablo Records. A concert album, Jazz at the Santa Monica
Civic '72, featuring Fitzgerald, pianist Tommy Flanagan, and the Count Basie
Orchestra, gained popularity via mail-order sales and helped Granz launch the
label. More albums followed throughout the '70s and '80s, many pairing the
singer with artists like Basie, Oscar Peterson, and Joe Pass, among others.
While diabetes affected her eyes and heart during this period, forcing her to
take breaks from performing, Fitzgerald always retained her joyful style, and
exuberant sense of swing. Away from the stage, she was committed to helping
disadvantaged youth, and made contributions to various charity organizations. In
1979, she was honored with a Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of
Honor Award. Also, in 1987, President Ronald Reagan awarded her the National
Medal of Arts. More accolades followed, including a Commander of Arts and
Letters award from France, and numerous honorary doctorates from Yale, Harvard,
Dartmouth, and other institutions. Following a concert at New York's Carnegie
Hall in 1991, she retired from her career. Fitzgerald passed away on June 15,
1996, at her home in Beverly Hills, California. In the decades following her
death, Fitzgerald's reputation as one of the most influential and recognizable
figures in jazz and popular music only increased. She remains a household name
around the world, and has received a number of posthumous accolades, including
four Hall of Fame Grammys and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. ~ Matt Collar
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