The Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald, Volume 1: 1935-1941

The Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald, Volume 1: 1935-1941

Compilation by Ella Fitzgerald

Released 2000
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  • CD 1: 1935–1937
  • 1
    I’ll Chase the Blues Away
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:35
  • 2
    Love and Kisses
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:20
  • 3
    Rhythm and Romance
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:06
  • 4
    I’ll Chase the Blues Away
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:43
  • 5
    My Melancholy Baby
    Ella Fitzgerald with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
    3:02
  • 6
    All My Life
    Ella Fitzgerald with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
    3:14
  • 7
    Crying My Heart Out for You
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:09
  • 8
    Under the Spell of the Blues
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:05
  • 9
    When I Get Low I Get High
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:29
  • 10
    Sing Me a Swing Song (and Let Me Dance)
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:34
  • 11
    A Little Bit Later On
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 12
    Love You’re Just a Laugh
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:11
  • 13
    Devoting My Time to You
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:27
  • 14
    You’ll Have to Swing It
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:58
  • 15
    Swingin’ on the Reservation
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:07
  • 16
    Got the Spring Fever Blues
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:02
  • 17
    Vote for Mr. Rhythm
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:30
  • 18
    Goodnight My Love
    Ella Fitzgerald with Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
    3:08
    4.0 ★
  • 19
    Oh, Yes, Take Another Guess
    Ella Fitzgerald with Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
    2:30
  • 20
    Didja Mean It
    Ella Fitzgerald with Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
    2:22
  • 21
    My Last Affair
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    2:42
  • 22
    Organ Grinder’s Swing
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    2:54
  • 23
    Shine
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    2:55
  • 24
    Darktown Strutters’ Ball
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    3:08
  • 25
    Take Another Guess
    Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:45
  • CD 2: 1937–1938
  • 1
    Big Boy Blue
    Ella Fitzgerald with The Mills Brothers
    2:46
  • 2
    Dedicated to You
    Ella Fitzgerald with The Mills Brothers
    3:10
  • 3
    You Showed Me the Way
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:09
  • 4
    Crying Mood
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:35
  • 5
    Love Is the Thing So They Say
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:51
  • 6
    All Over Nothing at All
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    2:40
  • 7
    If You Ever Should Leave
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    3:13
  • 8
    Everyone’s Wrong but Me
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    3:06
  • 9
    Deep in the Heart of the South
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    3:16
  • 10
    Just a Simple Melody
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:56
  • 11
    I Got a Guy
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:20
  • 12
    Holiday in Harlem
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:10
  • 13
    Rock It for Me
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:10
  • 14
    I Want to Be Happy
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    4:27
  • 15
    The Dipsy Doodle
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:14
  • 16
    If Dreams Come True
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:27
  • 17
    Hallelujah!
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    4:00
  • 18
    Bei mir bist du schoen
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    3:06
  • 19
    It’s My Turn Now
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    2:56
  • 20
    It’s Wonderful
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    2:57
  • 21
    I Was Doing All Right
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    2:56
  • 22
    A‐Tisket, A‐Tasket
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:35
    3.0 ★
  • CD 3: 1938–1939
  • 1
    Heart of Mine
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:55
  • 2
    I’m Just a Jitterburg
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:18
  • 3
    This Time It’s Real
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    3:08
  • 4
    (Oh, Oh) What Do You Know About Love?
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    3:03
  • 5
    You Can’t Be Mine (And Someone Else’s Too)
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    3:04
  • 6
    We Can’t Go on This Way
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    3:00
  • 7
    Saving Myself for You
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    2:49
  • 8
    If You Only Knew
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    2:47
  • 9
    Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:55
  • 10
    MacPherson Is Rehearsin’ (To Swing)
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:07
  • 11
    Everybody Step
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:43
  • 12
    Ella
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:46
  • 13
    Wacky Dust
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 14
    Gotta Pebble in My Shoe
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:53
  • 15
    I Can’t Stop Loving You
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:05
  • 16
    Strictly From Dixie
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    2:50
  • 17
    Woe Is Me
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    2:50
  • 18
    I Let a Tear Fall in the River
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:11
  • 19
    F.D.R. Jones
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:54
  • 20
    I Love Each Move You Make
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:01
  • 21
    It’s Foxy
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:03
  • 22
    I Found My Yellow Basket
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:35
  • 23
    Undecided
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:15
  • CD 4: 1939
  • 1
    ’Tain’t What You Do
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:02
  • 2
    One Side of Me
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:21
  • 3
    My Heart Belongs to Daddy
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:07
    4.0 ★
  • 4
    Once Is Enough for Me
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    3:01
  • 5
    I Had to Live and Learn
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    3:07
  • 6
    Sugar Pie
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:11
  • 7
    It’s Slumbertime Along the Swanee
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:49
  • 8
    I’m Up a Tree
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 9
    Chew‐Chew‐Chew (Your Bubble Gum)
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:02
  • 10
    Don’t Worry About Me
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    3:09
  • 11
    If Anything Happened to You
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    3:06
  • 12
    If That’s What You’re Thinking, You’re Wrong
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    3:05
  • 13
    If You Ever Change Your Mind
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight
    3:02
  • 14
    Have Mercy
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:07
  • 15
    Little White Lies
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    2:56
  • 16
    Coochi‐Coochi‐Coo
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:03
  • 17
    That Was My Heart
    Chick Webb and His Orchestra
    3:02
  • 18
    Betcha Nickel
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:57
  • 19
    Stairway to the Stars
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:12
  • 20
    I Want the Waiter (With the Water)
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:08
  • 21
    That’s All, Brother
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:04
  • 22
    Out of Nowhere
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:54
  • CD 5: 1939–1940
  • 1
    My Last Goodbye
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:20
  • 2
    Billy (I Always Dream of Billy)
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:42
  • 3
    Please Tell Me the Truth
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:15
  • 4
    I’m Not Complaining
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:07
  • 5
    You’re Gonna Lose Your Gal
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:06
  • 6
    (What Can I Say) After I Say I’m Sorry?
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:48
  • 7
    Baby, What Else Can I Do?
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:04
  • 8
    My Wubba Dolly (Rubber Dolly)
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:01
  • 9
    Lindy Hopper’s Delight
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:51
  • 10
    Moon Ray
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:03
  • 11
    Is There Somebody Else?
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:35
  • 12
    Sugar Blues
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:50
  • 13
    The Starlit Hour
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:09
  • 14
    What’s the Matter With Me?
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:58
  • 15
    Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:31
  • 16
    If It Weren’t for You
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:00
  • 17
    Sing Song Swing
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:02
  • 18
    Imagination
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:59
  • 19
    Take It From the Top
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:55
  • 20
    Tea Dance
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:17
  • 21
    Jubilee Swing
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:16
  • 22
    [untitled instrumental]
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:04
  • 23
    Deedle‐De‐Dum
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:40
  • CD 6: 1940–1941
  • 1
    Shake Down the Stars
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:48
  • 2
    Gulf Coast Blues
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:03
  • 3
    I Fell in Love With a Dream
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:13
  • 4
    Five O’Clock Whistle
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:12
  • 5
    So Long
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:05
  • 6
    Louisville, K‐Y
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:09
  • 7
    Taking a Chance on Love
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:08
  • 8
    Cabin in the Sky
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:43
  • 9
    I’m the Lonesomest Gal in Town
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:40
  • 10
    Three Little Words
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:34
  • 11
    Hello Ma! I Done It Again
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:32
  • 12
    Wishful Thinking
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:02
  • 13
    The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:04
  • 14
    The Muffin Man
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:28
  • 15
    Keep Cool, Fool
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:05
  • 16
    No Nothing
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:09
  • 17
    My Man
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:04
  • 18
    I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love With Me
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:33
  • 19
    I Must Have That Man
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    3:07
  • 20
    When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:40
  • 21
    I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:55
  • 22
    Melinda the Mousie
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:44
  • 23
    Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man
    Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra
    2:45

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Release credits

  • trombone [5-6]
  • guitar [1-2]
  • bass [1], double bass [2.1, 2.3-15, 2.17, 2.19-22, 1.14-17, 1.21-24, 4.1-3, 4.9, 4.15, 3.1-2, 3.8-16, 3.19-23, 3.23]
  • drums (drum set) [4.18-21, 6.7, 5.1-5, 5.7-8, 5.12-13, 5.15, 5.17-18, 5.23]
  • double bass [2.3-5, 1.3, 1.7-10, 1.12-13]
  • guitar [3.1-17, 3.19-23, 2.6-15, 2.17-22, 4.1-3]
  • trumpet [4.1-4, 4.6-9, 4.15, 4.18-21, 1.1-3, 1.7-10, 1.12-17, 5.1-5, 5.7-8, 2.3, 2.3-4, 2.4-5, 2.5, 2.10-15, 2.17, 2.22, 3.1-2, 3.9-15, 3.19-23]
  • guitar [10-12, 14, 17]
  • clarinet [12-13, 15, 17-18, 23], reeds [2.10-13, 6.4], saxophone [10-12]
  • conductor [1-4], drums (drum set) [3.1-17, 3.19-23, 4.1-13, 4.15, 4.17, 1.1-4, 1.7-10, 1.12-17, 1.21-24, 2.1, 2.3-15, 2.17-22]
  • performing orchestra [1.10, 3.23, 4.1, 2.15, 2.22]
  • trombone [1-4, 7-9]
  • drums (drum set) [5-6]
  • trumpet [3.19-23, 4.1-3, 4.9, 4.15]
  • piano [1.4, 1.12-13, 2.3-5]
  • vocal [2]
  • trombone [7]
  • reeds [5, 7-8, 15, 17-18, 23]
  • alto saxophone [1.1-4, 1.7-10, 1.12-16, 2.3-5]
  • vocal [4.1-22, 2.1-15, 2.17-22, 3.1-23, 5.1-21, 5.23, 1.1-25, 6.1-23]
  • tenor saxophone [1-4, 7-9]
  • trumpet [5-6]
  • reeds [4.1, 4.3, 4.6-9, 4.15, 4.18-21, 2.14-15, 2.22, 3.1-2, 3.23, 5.1-4], saxophone [14, 17]
  • trombone [5.1-5, 5.7-8, 5.12-13, 5.15, 5.17-18, 5.23, 4.1-3, 4.6-9, 4.15, 4.18-21, 2.22, 3.1-2, 3.9-15, 3.19-23, 6.7]
  • vocal [2]
  • vocal [2]
  • alto saxophone [9-16], reeds [5.1-5, 5.7-8, 5.12-13, 3.11-12, 3.17, 3.23, 4.1, 4.3-13, 4.15, 4.17-21]
  • trumpet [5.12-13, 5.15, 5.17-18, 5.23, 6.4, 6.7]
  • reeds [5-6]
  • piano [1-3, 9-10]
  • trombone [15, 17-18, 23]
  • double bass [1-2, 4]
  • trombone [4, 7]
  • vocal [2]
  • guitar [2.3-5, 1.1-10, 1.12-17, 1.21-24, 4.9, 4.15]
  • double bass [5-6]
  • alto saxophone [2.3-15, 2.17, 2.19-22, 1.17, 3.1-2, 3.8]
  • trumpet [2.3-5, 2.10-15, 2.17, 2.22, 3.1-2, 3.9-15, 1.1-4, 1.7-10, 1.12-17]
  • trombone [1.10, 1.12-17, 2.3-5, 2.10-15, 2.17, 2.22, 3.1-2, 3.9-15, 3.19-23, 5.1-5, 5.7-8, 5.12-13, 4.1-3, 4.6-9, 4.15, 4.18-21]
  • alto saxophone [2.10-12, 2.14, 2.17, 1.1-4], clarinet [1.21-24, 2.1], reeds [2.3-5, 1.7-17, 1.22, 1.25, 6.4, 6.7]
  • trumpet [4]
  • piano [12-13, 15, 17-18]
  • reeds [4], tenor saxophone [5.15, 5.17-18, 5.23, 6.7]
  • trombone [4.1-13, 4.15, 4.17-21, 5.1-5, 5.7-8, 5.12-13, 5.15, 5.17-18, 5.23, 2.1, 2.3-15, 2.17-22, 3.1-17, 3.19-23, 1.1-4, 1.7-10, 1.12-17, 1.21-24]
  • trumpet [5.1-5, 5.7-8, 5.12-13, 5.15, 5.17-18, 5.23, 6.7, 4.1-13, 4.15, 4.17-21, 2.1, 2.3-15, 2.15, 2.17-22, 1.1-4, 1.7-10, 1.12-17, 1.21-24, 3.1-17, 3.19-23]
  • reeds [2.1, 2.3-9, 3.23, 1.12-13, 1.23-24, 4.1], tenor saxophone [2.6-8, 2.10-15, 2.17, 2.19-22, 1.5-6, 1.10, 1.14-17, 1.21-22, 4.1-3, 4.9, 4.15, 3.1-2, 3.8-16, 3.19-23]
  • piano [5-6]
  • performing orchestra [5-6]
  • vocal [1]
  • piano [6.7, 5.23, 1.14-17, 1.21-25, 2.1, 2.3-15, 2.17-22, 4.1-3, 4.9, 4.15, 3.1-16, 3.19-23]
  • guitar [4, 7]
  • baritone saxophone [17], saxophone [10-12, 14, 17], tenor saxophone [1.10, 1.12-13, 2.10-15, 2.17, 2.22, 3.9-12], woodwind [1.3-4, 1.7-16, 1.25, 2.3-5, 4.1-3, 4.6-9, 4.15, 4.18-21, 5.1-5, 5.7-8, 5.12-13, 3.1-2, 3.11-15, 3.19-23]

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