Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Sam And Delilah
2. But Not For Me
3. My One And Only
4. Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
5. Beginner's Luck
6. Oh, Lady Be Good
7. Nice Work If You Can Get It
8. Things Are Looking Up
9. Just Another Rhumba
10. How Long Has This Been Going On?
11. 'S Wonderful
12. Man I Love, The
13. That Certain Feeling
14. By Strauss
15. Someone To Watch Over Me
16. Real American Folk Song (Is A Rag), The
17. Who Cares?

Disc 2:

1. Looking For A Boy
2. They All Laughed
3. My Cousin In Milwaukee
4. Somebody From Somewhere
5. Foggy Day, A
6. Clap Yo' Hands
7. For You, For Me, For Evermore
8. Stiff Upper Lip
9. Boy Wanted
10. Strike Up The Band
11. Soon
12. I've Got A Crush On You
13. Bidin' My Time
14. Aren't You Kind Of Glad We Did?
15. Of Thee I Sing (Baby)
16. "The Half Of It, Dearie" Blues
17. I Was Doing All Right
18. He Loves And She Loves
19. Foggy Day
20. Clap Yo' Hands
21. For You, For Me, For Evermore
22. Stiff Upper Lip
23. Boy Wanted
24. Strike up the Band
25. Soon
26. I've Got a Crush on You
27. Bidin' My Time
28. Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did?
29. Of Thee I Sing (Baby)
30. Half of It, Dearie, Blues
31. I Was Doing All Right
32. He Loves and She Loves

Disc 3:

1. Love Is Sweeping The Country
2. Treat Me Rough
3. Love Is Here To Stay
4. Slap That Bass
5. Isn't It A Pity?
6. Shall We Dance
7. Love Walked In
8. You've Got What Gets Me
9. They Can't Take That Away From Me
10. Embraceable You
11. I Can't Be Bothered Now
12. Boy! What Love Has Done To Me!
13. Fascinating Rhythm
14. Funny Face
15. Lorelei
16. Oh, So Nice!
17. Let's Kiss And Make Up
18. I Got Rhythm
19. Love Is Sweeping the Country
20. Treat Me Rough
21. Love Is Here to Stay
22. Slap That Bass
23. Isn't It a Pity?
24. Shall We Dance?
25. Love Walked In
26. You've Got What Gets Me
27. They Can't Take That Away from Me
28. Embraceable You
29. I Can't Be Bothered Now
30. Boy! What Love Has Done to Me!
31. Fascinating Rhythm
32. Funny Face
33. Lorelei
34. Oh, So Nice
35. Let's Kiss and Make Up
36. I Got Rhythm

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #152561 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

As good as it gets
If I have any warning at all before I leave this world, I will ask to hear Fitzgerald singing Gershwin while I eat my last meal.

On the heels of Ella, the glory of the angels' voices won't be so much of a shock.

Ella & George are just outstanding!
First, I own the ENTIRE Ella Songbooks - a body of work in American popular song that is beyond reproach and will never appear again on this planet - a must listening if not an ownership!

Now, I'm not going to comment on all of the wonderful performances in this entire set, but must at least 'elevate' the overall rating of the 3 discs of the Gershwin brothers - one reviewer (I think mistakeningly down rated his star rating, i.e. 2*, despite his/her glowing comments) - thus, I'm simply putting this set into a better perspective.

Please, ignore a 2* rating, this is certainly 4 if not 5* - Ella does just a superb job in interpreting these songs; now whether you like them more 'jazzy' or w/ strings is another issue, but give them a chance, a decision not to be regetted!

Lovely music but...
Yes, this is a lovely piece of music;
Ella Fitzgerald is a superb singer, no doubt about it, the Gershwin material is more than suitable for her tallents and yet I feel somewhat dissatisfied... Well, I am a jazz fan, so the arrangements based on strings will hardly thrill me, but even the songs arranged without the strings are more Broadway than jazz...
And there are many singers who can sing good Broadway, so it's a pity Ella is used for a Broadway treatment of these songs.

However, this is a cultivated and subtle popular music, so I give it 4 stars, a bit more than I actually feel for the album.