Ella Fitzgerald – Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 2 – CD

Ella Fitzgerald began her glorious association with the newly formed Verve in 1956, and her album debut, ‘Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book’, bankrolled the label’s initial success. Four tunes were chosen for pre-release to secure advance publicity: ‘It’s All Right with Me’, ‘Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love’, ‘All of You’ and ‘What Is This Thing Called Love?’. It was an approach that turned out to be spectacularly successful and, repeated, put Verve in the commercial market propelling sales of the albums the singles were drawn from. Latterly, many of Ella’s singles have long since enjoyed separate lives from the albums they were drawn from. ‘Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Volume 2’ showcases Ella singing with an incomparable level of artistry, whether its songs by Cole Porter, Gershwin or The Beatles, and features liners by jazz commentator, Stuart Nicholson.

Disc 1
1. It’s All Right With Me
2. Let’s Do It
3. What is This Thing Called Love?
4. All of You
5. Stars Fell On Alabama
6. Can’t We Be Friends?
7. Manhattan
8. Stairway To the Stars
9. Goody, Goody
10. St. Louis Blues
11. Stompin’ At the Savoy
12. What Will I Tell My Heart
13. Midnight Sun
14. Teardrops From My Eyes
15. Little Jazz
16. They Can’t Take That Away From Me
17. Oh, Lady Be Good
18. I’ve Grown Accustomed To His Face

Disc 2
1. I’m Thru With Love
2. Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
3. You Make Me Feel So Young
4. Like Young
5. Cool Breeze
6. Beat Me Daddy Eight To the Bar
7. Gone With the Wind
8. Lorelei
9. Mack the Knife
10. How High the Moon
11. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
12. Reach For Tomorrow
13. Jingle Bells
14. Good Morning Blues
15. (You’ll Have To Swing It) Mr. Paganini
16. You’re Driving Me Crazy
17. Cry Me a River
18. Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!

Disc 3
1. I’ll Always Be In Love With You
2. I Could Have Danced All Night
3. Shiny Stockings
4. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
5. See, See Rider
6. Trouble In Mind
7. Can’t Buy Me Love
8. Hello Dolly
9. And the Angels Sing
10. A Hard Day’s Night
11. Duke’s Place
12. Imagine My Frustration
13. Whisper Not
14. Old McDonald