The Essential Ella Fitzgerald

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  A‐Tisket, A‐Tasket
  2:39
• 2
  Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home?
  2:32
• 3
  I’m the Lonesomest Gal in Thew World
  2:40
• 4
  Time Alone Will Tell
  3:09
• 5
  I’m Confessin’
  3:25
• 6
  It’s Only a Paper Moon
  2:43
• 7
  Flying Home
  2:29
• 8
  You Won’t Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)
  2:55
  4.0 ★
• 9
  The Frim Fram Sauce
  3:15
• 10
  It’s a Pity to Say Goodnight
  2:42
• 11
  Oh, Lady Be Good
  3:14
• 12
  How Long Has This Been Going On?
  3:20
• 13
  I’ve Got a Crush on You
  3:18
• 14
  Someone to Watch Over Me
  3:19
• 15
  How High the Moon
  3:17
• 16
  Basin Street Blues
  3:08
• 17
  Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
  3:15
• 18
  Dream a Little Dream of Me
  3:07
• 19
  Rock It for Me
  3:15
• 20
  Just a Simple Melody
  3:03
• CD 2
• 1
  (I Love You) for Sentimental Reasons
  3:11
• 2
  But Not for Me
  3:18
• 3
  Soon
  2:51
• 4
  Maybe
  3:31
• 5
  Robbin’s Nest
  2:35
• 6
  Happy Talk
  2:29
• 7
  Sugarfoot Rag
  3:04
• 8
  I’ve Got the World on a String
  3:18
• 9
  I Gotta Have My Baby Back
  3:24
• 10
  Baby, It’s Cold Outside
  2:43
• 11
  All Over Nothing at All
  2:44
• 12
  Cryin’ Mood
  2:39
• 13
  I Got a Guy
  3:26
• 14
  Rhythm and Romance
  3:07
• 15
  Take Another Guess, Oh! Yes!
  2:31
• 16
  Ella
  2:48
• 17
  I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good
  2:56
• 18
  My Heart and I Decided
  3:02
• 19
  I’m Beginning to See the Light
  2:46
• 20
  That’s the Way It Is
  3:20
• CD 3
• 1
  I’m Just a Lucky So‐And‐So
  2:57
• 2
  I Didn’t Mean a Word I Said
  3:20
• 3
  Looking for a Boy
  3:12
• 4
  My One and Only
  3:20
• 5
  Guilty
  3:19
• 6
  Black Coffee
  3:06
• 7
  Smooth Sailing
  3:10
• 8
  My Happiness
  3:27
• 9
  I Got the Spring Fever Blues
  3:04
• 10
  Dedicated to You
  3:15
• 11
  Goodnight My Love
  3:11
• 12
  I Still Feel the Same About You
  3:19
• 13
  Who Walks in When I Walk Out?
  2:20
• 14
  Everyone’s Wrong but Me
  3:09
• 15
  Holiday in Harlem
  3:15
• 16
  Benny’s Coming Home on Saturday
  3:27
• 17
  Stone Cold Dead in the Market (He Had It Coming)
  2:42
• 18
  Patootie Pie
  2:39
• 19
  Cow Cow Boogie
  2:56
• 20
  My Happiness
  3:06

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Release credits

• Art Drelinger
  tenor saxophone [8]
• Benny Moten
  double bass [1]
• Bill Stegmeyer
  alto saxophone [8], clarinet [8], reeds [8]
• Billy Butterfield
  trumpet [8]
• Bob Haggart
  arranger [8], conductor [8]
• Bob Haggart and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [8]
• Cozy Cole
  drums (drum set) [8]
• Danny Perri
  guitar [8]
• Eddie "Mole" Bourne
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Ella Fitzgerald
  vocal [3.3-4, 3.19, 1.8, 1.12-14, 2.1-4, 2.17, 2.19]
• Ellis Larkins
  piano [2.2-4, 3.3-4, 1.12-14]
• George Koenig
  alto saxophone [8]
• Jack Greenberg
  tenor saxophone [8]
• Jimmy Shirley
  guitar [1]
• Joe Bushkin
  piano [8]
• Louis Armstrong
  solo [8], trumpet [8], vocal [8]
• Milt Gabler
  producer [2.2-4, 3.3-4, 1.12-14]
• Milton Schatz
  baritone saxophone [8]
• René DeKnight
  piano [1]
• The Delta Rhythm Boys
  vocal [1]
• The Ink Spots
  performing orchestra [19], vocal [19]
• Trigger Alpert
  bass [8], double bass [8]
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Issues

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  The Essential Ella Fitzgerald

  3x CD
  2003