Sings the Cole Porter Song Book

Disc 1
1	All Through the Night 3:17
2	Anything Goes 3:23
3	Miss Otis Regrets 3:02
4	Too Darn Hot 3:50
5	In the Still of the Night 2:40
6	I Get a Kick out of You 4:01
7	Do I Love You? 3:51
8	Always True to You in My Fashion 2:50
9	Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) 3:33
10	Just One of Those Things 3:32
11	Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye 3:33
12	All of You 1:45
13	Begin the Beguine 3:39
14	Get out of Town 3:24
15	I Am in Love 4:08
16	From This Moment On 3:16
Disc 2
1	I Love Paris 4:59
2	You Do Something to Me 2:22
3	Ridin' High 3:23
4	Easy to Love 3:26
5	It's All Right with Me 3:09
6	Why Can't You Behave? 5:06
7	What Is This Thing Called Love? 2:05
8	You're the Top 3:35
9	Love for Sale 5:55
10	It's de-Lovely 2:44
11	Night and Day 3:06
12	Ace in the Hole 1:59
13	So in Love 3:52
14	I've Got You Under My Skin 2:44
15	I Concentrate on You 3:14
16	Don't Fence Me In 3:28

Barnes & Noble

The Great American Songbook is so flexible, and this material can be played in so many different ways, that it seems foolish to identify any single singer's interpretation of any given song as "definitive." Yet Ella Fitzgerald's eight songbook albums of 1956-1964 (along with Frank Sinatra's "concept albums" of the same period) are so commanding in their treatment of this material that it's hard not to declare them as the definitive treatments of Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, and Jerome Kern. Apart from defining the Songbook concept itself, the Fitzgerald and Sinatra albums also set the bar for standards of excellence that all singers performing this music have since aspired to. The orchestrations by 25-year-old Buddy Bregman aren't as well conceived as later Songbooks handled by Nelson Riddle -- in fact, Fitzgerald (1917-1996) sounds best when backed only by the rhythm section on "I Get a Kick out of You." But the point here isn't the charts but Fitzgerald herself. Whether she's being romantic on "So in Love" or coyly teasing on "Always True to You Darling in My Fashion," these are the most mellifluously musical pipes ever to go to work on Cole Porter. Will Friedwald

All Music Guide

A striking two-CD set featuring arguably history's finest jazz singer singing some of the best-written American pop standards on one of jazz's most prolific labels. Ella Fitzgerald shines as the perfect interpreter of Cole Porter's bittersweet love songs on these 35 tracks from the Verve archives. Recorded and released on LP in 1956, Ella is joined by such luminaries as Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, and Billie Holiday and is backed by jazz legends such as Artie Shaw and Buddy Bregman who envelop the vocalist in lush arrangements of these bright pop standards. In the Verve tradition, the packaging is in-depth and the original liner notes by Norman Granz are reproduced faithfully, evoking that classic LP feel. This collection is one of those rare albums that can be treated as a terrific introduction to a classic artist, as well as remaining a treasured recording for the most scholarly jazz aficionados. Zac Johnson