Description
Label Review.
1959 album with 9 bonus tracks. Also available on Vinyl.
Our Overview.
“First Lady of Song’s” - Ella Fitzgerald - new release of ‘Hello Love’ with bonus tracks. By 1957, Ella Fitzgerald, one off the greatest female interpreters of the American songbook, was already a star with over twenty years experience as a professional singer. She had performed in countless venues and settings and recorded numerous sides. She was also the inspiration behind Norman Granz’s “Songbook” concept, which had become possible with the recently developed technology of “long play” LPs. The “Songbook” albums consisted of carefully designed multiple-LP box sets devoted to Ella singing the works of some of the best jazz composers, many of which resulted in best-selling albums.
Granz also presented Ella in an entirely different context. As a concert promoter with his Jazz at the Philharmonic, he recorded many performances and was one of the first record producers to issue live recordings. At forty-years old, Ella was reaching the peak of her abilities. Between 1957 and 1959, Ella recorded a series of sessions with the Frank DeVol Orchestra from which several albums were culled, among them Hello Love, presented here, and the better known Like Someone in Love. Ella and DeVol would record together on many other occasions. Other albums they collaborated on consist of Ella Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers (recorded on November 28, 1958), Ella Wishes You a Merry Christmas (from July 15-16, 1960), and Hello Dolly (March 3-4, 1964).
Presented here is the complete original LP ‘Hello Love’ (Verve MGVS- 6100), featuring the legendary Ella Fitzgerald backed by an all-star orchestra conducted and arranged by Frank DeVol. Among the band members are Harry “Sweets” Edison, Pete Candoli, Ben Webster, and Barney Kessel. Nine tracks from the same session which weren’t issued on the original LP (among them a rare vocal guitar duet with Herb Ellis on “Detour Ahead”) have been added as a bonus. ELLA FITZGERALD, vocals on all tracks Orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol Los Angeles, July 1957-March 1959.
Track Listing:
You Go To My Head / Willow Weep For Me / I’m Thru With Love / Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year / Everything Happens To Me / Lost In A Fog / I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face / I’ll Never Be The Same / So Rare / Tenderly / Stairway To The Stars / Moonlight In Vermont / You Turned The Tables On Me* / Gypsy In My Soul* / Goody-Goody* / St. Louis Blues* / A Tisket, A Tasket* / Baby, Don’t You Go ‘way Mad* / Angel Eyes* / Night Wind* / Detour Ahead*