Annotation

Another one in the Songbook serie, again with Nelson Riddle.
Variously titled as "The Jerome Kern Songbook" "Ella Sings the..."

Annotation last modified on 2007-11-16 18:24 UTC.

Tracklist

# Title Rating Length
  CD 1
11 Let's Begin
2:59
22 A Fine Romance
3 3:38
33 All the Things You Are
3:17
44 I'll Be Hard to Handle
3:50
55 You Couldn't Be Cuter
3:15
66 She Didn't Say Yes
3:23
77 I'm Old Fashioned
3:29
88 Remind Me
3:52
99 The Way You Look Tonight
4:30
1010 Yesterdays
2:52
1111 Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
3:56
1212 Why Was I Born?
3:43

Relationships

arranger:
Nelson Riddle (tracks 1–12)
composer:
Jerome Kern (track 10)
Jerome Kern (1927) (track 11)
Jerome Kern (1929) (track 12)
Jerome Kern (1931) (track 6)
Jerome Kern (1932) (track 4)
Jerome Kern (1933) (track 1)
Jerome Kern (1936) (tracks 2, 2, 9)
Jerome Kern (1938) (track 5)
Jerome Kern (1939) (track 3)
Jerome Kern (1940) (track 8)
Jerome Kern (1942) (track 7)
conductor:
Nelson Riddle (1963) (tracks 1–12)
engineer:
Val Valentin (tracks 1–12)
lead vocals:
Ella Fitzgerald (1963) (tracks 1–12)
lyricist:
Otto Harbach (track 10)
Oscar Hammerstein II (1927) (track 11)
Oscar Hammerstein II (1929) (track 12)
Otto Harbach (1931) (track 6)
Bernard Dougall (1932) (track 4)
Otto Harbach (1933) (track 1)
Dorothy Fields (US Tin Pan Alley librettist and lyricist) (1936) (tracks 2, 2, 9)
Dorothy Fields (US Tin Pan Alley librettist and lyricist) (1938) (track 5)
Oscar Hammerstein II (1939) (track 3)
Dorothy Fields (US Tin Pan Alley librettist and lyricist) (1940) (track 8)
Johnny Mercer (1942) (track 7)
performer:
Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra (1963) (tracks 1–12)
producer:
Norman Granz (tracks 1–12)
ASIN:
cover recording of:
A Fine Romance (track 2)
Remind Me (1963) (track 8)
I'll Be Hard to Handle (1963) (track 4)
Why Was I Born? (1963) (track 12)
A Fine Romance (1963) (track 2)
Yesterdays (1963) (track 10)
She Didn't Say Yes (1963) (track 6)
The Way You Look Tonight (1963) (track 9)
Let's Begin (1963) (track 1)
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (1963) (track 11)
You Couldn't Be Cuter (1963) (track 5)
All the Things You Are (from Very Warm for May) (1963) (track 3)
I'm Old Fashioned (1963) (track 7)