Ella Fitzgerald – “”SUMMERTIME” (with Edward Hopper Images)

Ella Fitzgerald – “MIDNIGHT SUN” (1957)

“Midnight Sun” (1954) was originally an instrumental composed by Lionel Hampton and Sonny Burke in 1947 and is now considered a jazz standard.
Subsequently, Johnny Mercer wrote the words to the song.

One famous recording of the song with the Mercer lyrics is by Ella Fitzgerald on her album “Like Someone in Love” (1957) accompanied by a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol. This album represents a fine example of Ella’s singing from this period, recorded at the same time as her albums with Louis Armstrong.

The album was also recorded in the midst of her epic ‘Songbooks’ project, celebrating the composers of the ‘Great American Songbook’ and Broadway. The album features only four songs written by the composers featured in her ‘Songbooks’, instead concentrating on very famous ballads by lesser known writers. Some songs on the album were also recorded with Armstrong on the albums that they collaborated on from this period. The famous American saxophonist Stan Getz is featured on tenor sax on four tracks, including “Midnight Sun” and “You’re Blasé”. Ted Nash plays the alto sax and solos. Cover photos are by the great Phil Stern.

LYRICS:

Your lips were like a red and ruby chalice, warmer than the summer night
The clouds were like an alabaster palace rising to a snowy height.
Each star its own aurora borealis, suddenly you held me tight
I could see the Midnight Sun.

I can’t explain the silver rain that found me–or was that a moonlit veil?
The music of the universe around me, or was that a nightingale?
And then your arms miraculously found me,suddenly the sky turned pale,
I could see the Midnight Sun.

Was there such a night, it’s a thrill I still don’t quite believe,
But after you were gone, there was still some stardust on my sleeve.

The flame of it may dwindle to an ember, and the stars forget to shine,
And we may see the meadow in December, icy white and crystalline,
But oh my darling always I’ll remember when your lips were close to mine,
And we saw the Midnight Sun.

Ella Fitzgerald sings the Cole Porter songbook (Full album – Disc 1)

01) All through the night 00:00
02) Anything goes 03:17
03) Miss Otis regrets 06:40
04) Too darn hot 09:42
05) In the still of the night 13:33
06) I get a kick out of you 16:13
07) Do I love you 20:15
08) I’m always true to you in my fashion 24:07
09) Let’s do it (let’s fall in love) 26:57 (…some argentines♥ without means do it… ♫)
10) Just one of those things 30:31
11) Ev’ry time we say goodbye 34:04
12) All of you 37:38
13) Begin the beguine 39:24
14) Get out of town 43:03
15) I am in love 46:28
16) From this moment 50:35

© 1956 Decca Records

Ella Fitzgerald – “MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU”

Ella Fitzgerald – “EMBRACEABLE YOU”

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: “MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT” O:)

The Best Of Ella Fitzgerald

01 – 00:00 – Summertime
02 – 04:57 – Dream a Little Dream of Me
03 – 08:04 – Cheek to Cheek
04 – 13:59 – But Not for Me
05 – 17:13 – A Fine Romance
06 – 21:07 – Cow Cow Boogie
07 – 24:06 – How High the Moon
08 – 27:23 – Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
09 – 30:32 – It’s to Soon to Know
10 – 33:11 – April in Paris
11 – 39:55 – Mack the Knife
12 – 45:02 – Melancholy Me
13 – 47:53 – Mr Paganini
14 – 51:59 – Stone Cold Dead in the Market
15 – 54:39 – I Get a Kick Out of You

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – “ELLA & LOUIS” [Full Album]

1. Can’t We Be Friends?
2. Isn’t This a Lovely Day?
3. Moonlight in Vermont
4. They Can’t Take That Away from Me
5. Under a Blanket of Blue
6. Tenderly
7. A Foggy Day
8. Stars Fell on Alabama
9. Cheek to Cheek
10. The Nearness of You
11. April in Paris .

Ella Fitzgerald (v)
Louis Armstrong (t, v)
Herb Ellis (g)
Ed Hall (c)
Trummy Young (tb)
Oscar Peterson (p)
Billy Kyle (p)
Louie Bellson (ds)
Barrett Deems (ds)
Buddy Rich (ds)

HAPPY APRIL // Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – “April in Paris”

Ella Fitzgerald – “How High The Moon” (High Quality – Remastered)

Ella Fitzgerald – “BLUE SKIES”

Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see

Bluebirds
Singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds
All day long

Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you’re in love, my how they fly

Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on

I never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you’re in love, my how they fly

Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on