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Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. [2] She was the daughter of William Ashland Fitzgerald, a transfer wagon driver from Blackstone, Virginia, and Temperance "Tempie" Henry, both described as mulatto in the 1920 census. [3]
(as Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra) 17 — "Sing Song Swing" (as Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra) 23 — "Imagination" (as Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra) 15 — "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" (as Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra) [27] — — "Shake Down the Stars" (as Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous ...
Nice Work If You Can Get It was also Fitzgerald's first all Gershwin album since 1959's Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook. The album cover is a caricature of Fitzgerald, Previn, and the Gershwin brothers by the American cartoonist Al Hirschfeld. The album notes were written by Benny Green.
Fitzgerald continued recording with Webb until his death in 1939, after which the group was renamed Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra. With the introduction of 10" and 12" Long-Playing records in the late 1940s, Decca released several original albums of Fitzgerald's music and reissued many of her previous single-only releases.
The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books were a series of eight studio albums released in irregular intervals between 1956 and 1964, recorded by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, supported by a variety of orchestras, big bands, and small jazz combos.
Mum kept the records: Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. That was my library. For my ninth or tenth birthday, my sister bought me two records: Pink Floyd The Wall and a ...
“Marilyn read this in the paper and got very annoyed,” Greene recalled, “and called the manager and said, ‘Hi, this is Marilyn Monroe and if you rebook Ella Fitzgerald I will come every ...
Ella Fitzgerald with Andre Previn – Nice Work If You Can Get It, 1983 [7] Erroll Garner – Erroll Garner Plays Gershwin and Kern, 1968 [7] Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson – 1937 [7] Thelonious Monk – 1941, 1947 [7] Frank Sinatra – A Swingin' Affair! (1957) [9] and Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First (1962) [7] Art Tatum – 1949 [7]