Ella_Fitzgerald_Sings_the_Rodgers_&_Hart_Songbook

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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book

1956 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book is a 1956 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

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This album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, 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."[5]

In 2000 it was voted number 642 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.[6]

Track listing

For the 1956 Verve 2-LP album, Verve MG V-4002-2

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All lyrics are written by Lorenz Hart; all music is composed by Richard Rodgers

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In 2012, Verve also released an audiophile downloadable version of the LP in up to 192 kHz/24 bit lossless FLAC quality.

Personnel

Liner notes by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, William Simon and Norman Granz.

References

  1. [1]
    "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book Review". AllMusic. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
  2. [2]
    Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
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    Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 490. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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    The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 245.
  5. [5]
    "GRAMMY Hall Of Fame". grammy.com. Archived from the original on June 26, 2019. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
  6. [6]
    Colin Larkin (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 211. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.
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