Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook is a 1956 (see 1956 in music) 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. 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 ha... More

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook is a 1956 (see 1956 in music) 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. 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." For the 1956 Verve 2 LP album, Verve MG V-4002-2 Side One: Side Two: Side Three: Side Four: Bonus Track; Issued on disc two of 2009 the Verve 2CD Reissue, Verve 314-5372582 18 "Lover" (Alternative mono take) – 3:15 All songs composed by Richard Rodgers and all lyrics written by Lorenz Hart. Liner notes by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, William Simon and Norman Granz.

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