Complete Masters 1935 - 1955

Compilation by Ella Fitzgerald

Released 6 November 2011

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
I’ll Chase the Blues Away
3:16
2
Love and Kisses
3:03
3
Rhythm and Romance
2:44
4
I’ll Chase the Blues Away
3:01
5
My Melancholy Baby
3:14
6
All My Life
3:09
7
Crying My Heart Out for You
2:58
8
Under the Spell of the Blues
2:32
9
When I Get Low I Get High
2:25
10
Sing Me a Swing Song (and Let Me Dance)
2:35
11
A Little Bit Later On
3:03
12
Love You’re Just a Laugh
3:09
13
Devoting My Time to You
2:27
14
(If You Can’t Sing It) You’ll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)
2:54
15
Swingin’ on the Reservation
3:08
16
I Got the Spring Fever Blues
3:03
17
Vote for Mr. Rhythm
2:26
18
Goodnight My Love
3:08
19
Take Another Guess
2:30
20
Didja Mean It
2:22
21
My Last Affair
2:44
22
The Organ Grinder’s Swing
2:49
23
Shine
2:49
24
Darktown Strutters’ Ball
3:02
CD 2
1
Take Another Guess
2:42
2
Love Marches On
2:54
3
Big Boy Blue
2:48
4
There’s Frost on the Moon
2:52
5
Dedicated to You
3:13
6
Wake Up and Live
2:40
7
You Showed Me the Way
3:18
8
Crying Mood
2:37
9
Love Is the Thing, So They Say
2:51
10
All Over Nothing at All
2:40
11
If You Ever Should Leave
3:04
12
Everyone’s Wrong but Me
3:03
13
Deep in the Heart of the South
3:17
14
Just a Simple Melody
2:57
15
I Got a Guy
3:20
16
Holiday in Harlem
3:11
17
Rock It for Me
3:08
18
I Want to Be Happy
4:30
19
The Dipsy Doodle
3:10
20
If Dreams Come True
2:34
21
Hallelujah!
4:04
22
Bei mir bist Du schön
3:02
23
It’s My Turn Now
2:54
24
It’s Wonderful
2:54
CD 3
1
I Was Doing All Right
2:54
2
A‐Tisket, A‐Tasket
2:38
3.0 ★
3
Heart of Mine
2:53
4
I’m Just a Jitterbug
3:15
5
This Time It’s Real
3:09
6
(Oh, Oh) What Do You Know About Love?
3:05
7
You Can’t Be Mine (and Someone Else’s Too)
2:57
8
We Can’t Go on This Way
3:02
9
Saving Myself for You
2:50
10
If You Only Knew
2:45
11
Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil
2:54
12
McPherson Is Reharsin’ (to Swing)
3:06
13
Everybody Step
2:42
14
Ella
15
Wacky Dust
3:02
16
Gotta Pebble in My Shoe
2:55
17
I Can’t Stop Loving You
3:07
18
Strictly From Dixie
2:46
19
Woe Is Me
2:53
20
I Let a Tear Fall in the River
3:13
21
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones
2:51
22
I Love Each Move You Make
3:03
23
It’s Foxy
2:58
24
I Found My Yellow Basket
2:34
CD 4
1
Undecided
3:20
2
’Tain’t What You Do (It’s the Way That You Do It)
2:58
3
One Side of Me
3:23
4
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
3:02
5
Once Is Enough for Me
3:03
6
I Had to Live and Learn
3:10
7
Sugar Pie
3:10
8
It’s Slumbertime Along the Swanee
2:50
9
I’m Up a Tree
3:09
10
Chew‐Chew‐Chew (Chew Your Bubble Gum)
3:00
11
Don’t Worry About Me
3:07
12
If Anything Happened to You
3:08
13
If That’s What You’re Thinking, You’re Wrong
3:09
14
If You Ever Change Your Mind
3:04
15
Have Mercy
3:11
16
Little White Lies
2:52
17
Coochi‐Coochi‐Coo
3:02
18
That Was My Heart
3:08
19
Betcha Nickel
2:54
20
Stairway to the Stars
3:18
21
I Want the Waiter (with the Water)
3:08
22
That’s All Brother
3:11
23
Out of Nowhere
2:58
24
My Last Goodbye
3:16
CD 5
1
(I Always Dream of) Billy
2:40
2
Please Tell Me the Truth
3:19
3
I’m Not Complainin’
3:11
4
You’re Gonna Lose Your Gal
3:08
5
What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry
2:51
6
Baby, What Else Can I Do?
3:05
7
My Wubba Dolly (Rubber Dolly)
3:05
8
Moon Ray
3:00
9
Is There Somebody Else?
2:34
10
Sugar Blues
2:47
11
The Starlit Hour
3:07
12
What’s the Matter With Me
2:56
13
Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home
2:33
14
If It Weren’t for You
2:59
15
Sing Song Swing
3:02
16
Imagination
2:58
17
Deedle‐Dee‐Dum
2:38
18
Shake Down the Stars
2:46
19
Gulf Coast Blues
2:56
20
I Fell in Love With a Dream
3:14
21
The Five O’Clock Whistle
3:10
22
So Long
3:05
23
Louisville, KY
3:08
24
Taking a Chance on Love
3:05
CD 6
1
Cabin in the Sky
2:45
2
I’m the Lonesomest Gal in Town
2:40
3
Three Little Words
2:31
4
Hello Ma! I Done It Again
2:32
5
Wishful Thinking
3:02
6
The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else
3:05
7
The Muffin Man
2:25
8
Keep Cool, Fool
3:00
9
No Nothing
3:06
10
My Man
3:00
11
I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love With Me
2:35
12
I Must Have That Man
3:09
13
When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
2:44
14
I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)
2:57
15
Melinda the Mousie
2:43
16
Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man
2:47
17
Jim
3:00
18
His Love of Mine
2:55
19
Somebody Nobody Loves
3:12
20
You Don’t Know What Love Is
3:25
21
Who Are You?
2:58
22
I’m Thrilled
3:06
23
Make Love to Me
2:47
24
I’m Getting Mighty Lonesome for You
2:43
CD 7
1
When I Come Back Crying (Will You Be Laughing at Me?)
2:55
2
All I Need Is You
2:59
3
Mama Come Home
2:43
4
My Heart and I Decided
3:01
5
(I Put) a Four Leaf Clover in Your Pocket
2:54
6
He’s My Guy
3:19
7
Cow Cow Boogie
2:55
8
Once Too Often
2:58
9
Time Alone Will Tell
3:08
10
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
3:09
11
I’m Making Believe
3:12
12
And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine
3:15
13
I’m Confessin’ That I Love You
3:24
14
I’m Beginning to See the Light
2:44
15
That’s the Way It Is
3:18
16
It’s Only a Paper Moon
2:42
17
Cry You Out of My Heart
2:47
18
A Kiss Goodnight
3:07
19
Benny’s Coming Home on Saturday
3:25
20
Flying Home
2:27
21
Stone Cold Dead in the Market
2:40
22
Petootie Pie
2:37
23
That’s Rich
3:19
24
I’ll Always Be in Love With You
4:27
CD 8
1
I’ll See You in My Dreams
4:07
2
You Won’t Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)
2:54
3
The Frim Fram Sauce
3:13
4
I’m Just a Lucky So‐And‐So
2:55
5
I Didn’t Mean a Word I Said
3:18
6
(I Love You) for Sentimental Reasons
3:10
7
It’s a Pity to Say Goodnight
2:40
8
Guilty
3:12
9
Sentimental Journey
3:17
10
Budella (Blue Skies)
4:04
11
A Sunday Kind of Love
3:14
12
That’s My Desire
3:01
13
Oh, Lady Be Good!
3:15
14
Don’t You Think I Ought to Know?
3:08
15
You’re Breakin’ in a New Heart
2:28
16
I Want to Learn About Love
2:23
17
That Old Feeling
2:27
18
My Baby Likes to Be‐Bop
2:41
19
No Sense
2:59
20
How High the Moon
3:15
21
I’ve Got a Feelin’ I’m Fallin’
2:34
22
You Turned the Tables on Me
2:57
23
I Cried and Cried and Cried
2:54
24
Robbin’s Nest (Just When We’re Fallin’ in Love)
2:33
CD 9
1
Tea Leaves
2:43
2
My Happiness
3:18
3
It’s Too Soon to Know
2:39
4
I Can’t Go On (without You)
2:50
5
To Make a Mistake Is Human
3:07
6
In My Dreams
2:59
7
I Couldn’t Stay Away From You
3:18
8
Old Mother Hubbard
2:41
9
Someone Like You
3:04
10
Happy Talk
2:28
11
I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair
2:54
12
Black Coffee
3:06
13
Lover’s Gold
3:05
14
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
2:42
15
Don't Cry, Cry Baby
2:57
16
Crying
3:10
17
A New Shade of Blues
3:00
18
In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
2:38
19
Talk Fast, My Heart, Talk Fast
2:54
20
I’m Waitin’ for the Junkman
3:17
21
Basin Street Blues
3:09
22
I Hadn’t Anyone Till You
3:02
23
Dream a Little Longer
3:01
24
Foolish Tears
2:58
CD 10
1
A Man Wrote a Song
3:13
2
Fairy Tale
2:53
3
I Gotta Have My Baby Back
3:22
4
Baby, Won’t You Say You Love Me
2:57
5
Don’cha Go ’way Mad
3:19
6
Solid as a Rock
2:59
7
I’ve Got the World on a String
3:18
8
Sugarfoot Rag
3:03
9
Peas and Rice
3:22
10
M.I.S.S.I.S.S.I.P.P.I.
2:22
11
I Don’t Want the World
2:13
12
Ain’t Nobody’s Business but My Own
3:14
13
I’ll Never Be Free
3:10
14
Dream a Little Dream of M
3:06
15
Can Anyone Explain?
3:11
16
Looking for a Boy
3:08
17
My One and Only
3:15
18
How Long Has This Been Going On?
3:15
19
I’ve Got a Crush on You
3:14
20
But Not for Me
3:14
21
Soon
2:46
22
Someone to Watch Over Me
3:15
23
Maybe
3:25
24
Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney
3:08
3.0 ★
CD 11
1
Molasses, Molasses
2:44
2
Little Small Town Girl
3:07
3
I Still Feel the Same About You
3:17
4
Lonesome Gal
3:04
5
The Bean Bag Song
3:07
6
The Chesapeake and Ohio
2:41
7
Two Little Men in the Flying Saucer
3:22
8
Because of Rain
3:18
9
The Hot Canary
3:15
10
Even as You and I
3:30
11
Do You Really Love Me?
3:11
12
Love You Madly
3:00
13
Mixed Emotions
3:18
14
Smooth Sailing
3:06
15
Come On‐A My House
1:58
16
I Don’t Want to Take a Chance
3:13
17
There Never Was a Baby (Like My Baby)
2:48
18
Give a Little, Give a Little
3:20
19
Necessary Evil
2:32
20
Oops!
3:10
21
Would You Like to Take a Walk?
3:18
22
Who Walks in When I Walk Out?
2:19
23
Baby Doll
3:18
24
What Does It Take
2:43
CD 12
1
Lady Bug
3:19
2
Lazy Day
3:09
3
Airmail Special
3:02
4
Rough Ridin’
3:13
5
A Guy Is a Guy
2:52
6
Nowhere Guy
3:07
7
Gee, but I’m Glad to Know You Love Me
3:09
8
Goody Goody
2:23
9
Angel Eyes
2:55
10
Ding‐Dong Boogie
3:11
11
(If You Can’t Sing It) You’ll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini), Pts. 1–2
5:10
12
Early Autumn
3:13
13
Preview
3:03
14
Trying
2:58
15
The Greatest There Is
2:14
16
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
2:15
17
Ella’s Contribution to the Blues
2:32
18
My Favorite Song
2:48
19
Walking by the River
2:28
20
I Can’t Lie to Myself
2:55
21
Don’t Wake Me Up
3:02
22
Blue Lou
2:46
23
Careless
2:48
24
I Wonder What Kind of a Guy You’d Be
2:56
CD 13
1
When the Hands of the Clock Pray at Midnight
2:46
2
Crying in the Chapel
3:04
3
An Empty Ballroom
3:06
4
If You Don’t Know, I Know Who Will
2:45
5
Melancholy Me
2:52
6
Somebody Bad Stole the Wedding Bell
2:29
7
Moanin’ Low
2:41
8
Taking a Chance on Love
3:06
3.0 ★
9
I Wished on the Moon
3:06
10
Baby
2:42
11
I Need
2:39
12
Who’s Afraid (Not I, Not I, Not I)
2:48
13
I’m Glad There Is You
3:08
14
Baby, What Else Can I Do?
3:48
15
What Is There to Say?
3:21
16
Makin’ Whoopee
3:05
17
Until the Real Thing Comes Along
2:56
18
People Will Say We’re in Love
3:10
19
Please Be Kind
3:34
20
Imagination
2:36
21
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
2:38
22
You Leave Me Breathless
3:05
23
Nice Work If You Can Get It
2:38
24
Stardust
4:00
CD 14
1
Lullaby of Birdland
2:51
4.0 ★
2
Later
2:32
3
You’ll Never Know
3:08
4
Thanks for the Memory
2:28
5
It Might as Well Be Spring
2:41
6
I Can’t Get Started
3:05
7
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
2:16
8
That Old Black Magic
2:29
9
Old Devil Moon
2:58
10
Lover, Come Back to Me
1:59
11
Hard Hearted Hannah
3:00
12
Pete Kelly’s Blues
2:26
13
Ella Hums the Blues
5:14
14
Soldier Boy
2:59
15
A Satisfied Mind
2:33
16
My One and Only Love
3:19
17
The Impatient Years
2:48
18
But Not Like Mine
2:58
19
The Tender Trap
2:59

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Release credits

Aaron Izenhall
trumpet [14-15]
Al Klink
tenor saxophone [17]
André Previn
conductor [5]
André Previn and His Orchestra
performing orchestra [5]
Benny Carter
conductor [7]
Benny Carter and His Orchestra
performing orchestra [7]
Bernard Addison
guitar [3]
Bernie Privin
trumpet [17]
Beverly Peer
double bass [2.3, 2.19, 3.1-2]
Bill Beason
drums (drum set) [24]
Bill Doggett
piano [14-15]
Billy Hadnott
double bass [14-15]
Bob Mitchell
trumpet [14-15]
Bobby Guy
trumpet [7-8]
Bobby Johnson
guitar [2.19, 3.1-2]
Bobby Stark
trumpet [3.2, 2.19]
Buddy Cole
piano [7-8]
Carl Poole
trumpet [17]
Chick Webb
drums (drum set) [2.3, 2.19, 3.1-2]
Chick Webb and His Orchestra
performing orchestra [2.19, 3.2]
Dave Harris
saxophone [7-8]
Don Abney
piano [11]
Earl Hardy
trombone [24]
Ella Fitzgerald
lead vocals [17], vocal [5.24, 9.2, 9.12, 9.14-15, 9.17, 9.22-23, 9.23, 8.11, 12.19, 1.11, 11.4, 11.17, 3.1-2, 10.16-24, 2.3, 2.19, 14.1, 14.5, 14.7, 14.11, 13.7-8, 13.17, 13.22]
Ellis Larkins
piano [13.17, 13.22, 10.16-23]
Everett Barksdale
guitar [14.1, 11.17]
Frank Saracco
trombone [17]
Fred Williams
tenor saxophone [17]
Garvin Bushell
reeds [3.2, 2.19]
George Duvivier
double bass [19]
George Matthews
trombone [3.2, 5.24]
Gordon Jenkins
conductor [12, 22-23]
Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra
performing orchestra [12, 22]
Hank Jones
piano [11.17, 12.19, 14.1]
Harold Mitchell
trumpet [14-15]
Henderson Chambers
trombone [17]
Hi White
guitar [19]
Hymie Shertzer
alto saxophone [17]
Irving Randolph
trumpet [24]
James 'Ham' Jackson
electric guitar [14-15]
Jimmy Crawford
drums (drum set) [1]
Joe Howard
trombone [7-8]
Joe Mondragon
bass guitar [11]
Joe Morris
drums (drum set) [14-15]
John McConnell
trombone [24]
John Scott Trotter
conductor [7-8]
Johnny Blowers
drums (drum set) [17]
Josh Jackson
tenor saxophone [14-15]
Larry Bunker
drums (drum set) [11]
Leroy Kirkland
conductor [19]
Louis Jordan
alto saxophone [9.14, 9.14-15, 3.1-2, 2.19], tenor saxophone [14, 14-15], vocal [14-15]
Mario Bauzá
trumpet [2.19, 3.2]
Matty Matlock
saxophone [7-8]
Milt Gabler
producer [10.16-23, 13.17, 13.22]
Milt Yaner
alto saxophone [17]
Nat Story
trombone [2.19, 3.2]
Nick Fatool
drums (drum set) [7-8]
Perry Botkin
guitar [7-8]
Pete Clark
clarinet [3], reeds [24]
Phil Kraus
vibraphone [19]
Phil Stephens
double bass [7-8]
Red Nichols
trumpet [7-8]
Sam Simmons
tenor saxophone [24]
Sam “The Man” Taylor
tenor saxophone [1]
Sandy Block
double bass [14.1, 11.17]
Sandy Williams
trombone [3.1-2, 2.3, 2.19]
Stan Kane
drums (drum set) [19]
Stewart Blake
baritone saxophone [17]
Sy Oliver
conductor [1]
Sy Oliver and His Orchestra
performing orchestra [1]
Taft Jordan
trumpet [11.17, 2.3, 2.19, 5.24, 3.1-2]
Ted Vesely
trombone [7-8]
Teddy McRae
reeds [3], tenor saxophone [2.19, 3.1-2]
The Mills Brothers
vocal [3]
The Song Spinners
background vocals [2]
Tommy Fulford
piano [3.1-2, 2.3, 2.19, 5.24]
Ulysses Livingston
guitar [24]
Warren Baker
saxophone [7-8]
Wayman Carver
tenor saxophone [3.2, 2.19]
Wendell Mayhew
trombone [7-8]
Ziggy Elman
trumpet [7-8]

Issues

C
Complete Masters 1935 - 1955
14x CD
6 November 2011