Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson

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Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson cover
Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald
Released 1962
Recorded January 5, 1959–December 27, 1961
Genre Jazz
Length 42:42
Label Verve Records
Producer Norman Granz
Professional reviews
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Rhythm Is My Business
(1962)		 Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
(1962)		 Ella Swings Gently with Nelson
(1962)

Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson is a 1962 (see 1962 in music) studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. This album is one of a pair, the other being Ella Swings Gently with Nelson, that were released in 1962.

This was the first time Fitzgerald and Riddle had worked together since 1959's epic Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook.

Fitzgerald's performance on this album won her the 1963 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar A. Swan) – 3:00
  2. "Don't Be That Way" (Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson) – 3:47
  3. "Love Me or Leave Me" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 2:49
  4. "I Hear Music" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) – 2:19
  5. "What Am I Here For?" (Duke Ellington, Frankie Laine) – 2:43
  6. "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'" (Ellington, Peggy Lee) – 3:00
  7. "I Won't Dance" (Dorothy Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:30
  8. "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:37
  9. "The Gentleman is a Dope" (Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers) – 3:58
  10. "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:55
  11. "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:45
  12. "Pick Yourself Up" (Fields, Kern) – 2:06
  13. "Call Me Darling" (Dorothy Dick, Mort Fryberg, Rolf Marbet, Bert Reisfeld) – 2:34
  14. "Somebody Loves Me" (Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald) – 2:33
  15. "Cheerful Little Earful" (Ira Gershwin, Billy Rose, Warren) – 2:06

[edit] Personnel

Recorded from January 5, 1959–December 27, 1961 Capitol Tower, Hollywood, Los Angeles:

Tracks 1-13