Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas is a 1960 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded in the summer of 1960, with a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol.
It is Fitzgerald's only Verve album of Christmas tunes, recorded at the peak of her vocal talents.
For the 2002 Verve CD Reissue, 827150-2.
Recorded July 15 & 16, August 5, 1960, NYC, New York:
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Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
Musical Album
Artist
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as "Lady Ella", and the "First Lady of Song", was an American jazz vocalist.
With a vocal range spanning three octaves, she was noted for her purity of tone, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability,...
Label
Verve Records
Verve Records is an American jazz record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels, Clef Records (founded in 1946) and Norgran Records (founded in 1953), and material which had been licensed to Mercury...
Tracks:
- Jingle Bells
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
- Sleigh Ride
- The Christmas Song
- Good Morning Blues
- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
- Winter Wonderland
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
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