Song track listing and credits
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THE ESSENTIAL ELLA FITZGERALD: THE GREAT SONGS track listing
(Verve 517 170)

#1	Oh, Lady Be Good!   (3:54) (#1, slow orchestral ballad version) (George Gershwin - Ira Gershwin) Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra, featuring extra-large string section. Rec. January 7, 1959, in Los Angeles.
#2	Oh, Lady Be Good!   (3:48) (#2, swinging & scatting live version) (George Gershwin - Ira Gershwin) Jazz at the Philharmonic: Roy Eldridge (t); Jay Jay Johnson (tb); Lester Young, Illinois Jacquet, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Flip Phillips (ts); Oscar Peterson (p); Herb Ellis (g); Ray Brown (b); Jo Jones, Connie Kay (d). Rec. October 25, 1957, live at Philharmonic Hall, Los Angeles.
#3	There's A Lull In My Life   (3:24) (Mack Gordon - Harry Revel) Frank DeVol and his Orchestra, featuring Stan Getz (ts). Rec. October, 1957, in Los Angeles.
#4	Little Jazz   (3:48) (Roy Eldridge - Buster Harding) The Marty Paich DekTette: Al Porcino, Don Fagerquist (t); Bob Enevoldsen (vtb, ts); Vince DeRosa (frh); John Kitzmiller (tu); Bud Shank (as), Bill Holman (ts), Med Flory (bars); Lou Levy (p); Joe Mondragon (b); Mel Lewis (d). Rec. November 23, 1958, in Los Angeles.
#5	Drop Me Off In Harlem   (3:48) (Duke Ellington - Nick Kenny - Charles Kenny) Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra: Ellington or Billy Strayhorn (p, arr) dir: Cat Anderson, Willie Cook, Clark Terry, Ray Nance (t); Quentain Jackson, Britt Woodman, John Sanders (tb); Jimmy Hamilton (cl, ts), Russell Procope (as, cl), Johnny Hodges (as), Paul Gonsalves, Frank Foster (ts), Harry Carney (bars); Jimmy Woode (b); Sam Woodyard (d). Rec. June 25, 1957, in New York.
#6	Angel Eyes   (3:27) (Earl Brent - Matt Dennis) with Paul Smith (p). Rec. 1960, in Los Angeles.
#7	Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead (Harold Arlen & E. Y. Harburg) Billy May and his Orchestra, including Benny Carter (as). Rec. 1961, in Los Angeles.
#8	A-Tisket, A-Tasket (Ella Fitzgerald & Al Feldman )
#9	Summertime   (4:52) (George Gershwin - Ira Gershwin - DuBose Heyward) with Louis Armstrong (tp, vo) and orchestra conducted by Russell Garcia. Rec. August 18, 1957, in Los Angeles.
#10	Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall   (3:16) (Allan Roberts - Doris Fisher) Count Basie and his Orchestra: Basie (p) dir: Al Aarons, Sonny Cohn, Joe Newman, Don Rader, Fip Ricard (tp); Henry Coker, Urbie Green, Grover Mitchell, Benny Powell (tb); Marshall Royal (cl, as), Frank Wess (fl, as, ts), Eric Dixon (f, ts), Frank Foster (ts), Charlie Fowlkes (bars); Freddie Green (g); Buddy Catlett (b); Sonny Payne (d); Quincy Jones (arr). Rec. July 16, 1963, probably in Chicago.
#11	Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most   (6:13) (Tommy Wolf - Fran Landesman) with her Quartet: Lou Levy (p); Herb Ellis (g); Joe Mondragon (b); Stan Levey (d). Rec. June 22, 1961, in Los Angeles.
#12	Pick Yourself Up   (2:05) (Jerome Kern - Dorothy Fields) Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra: possibly including Sweets Edison, Conrad Gozzo, Don Fagerquist (tp); Dick Nash (tb), George Roberts (btb); Harry Klee (fl), Ronnie Lang, Skeets Herfurt (as), Ted Nash (ts); Paul Smith or Lou Levy (p); Joe Comfort (b); Al Stoller (d). Rec. 1961, in Los Angeles.
#13	Cool Breeze   (1:55) (Tadd Dameron - Billy Eckstine - Dizzy Gillespie) Russell Garcia and his Orchestra. Rec. late 1959, in Los Angeles.
#14	Imagine My Frustration (Duke Ellington - Billy Strayhorn - Gerald Wilson) Duke Ellington and his Orchestra: Ellington (p) dir: Cat Anderson, Cootie Williams, Mercer Ellington, Herbie Jones (tp); Lawrence Brown, Chuck Connors, Buster Cooper (tb); Jimmy Hamilton (cl, ts), Russell Procope (as, cl), Johnny Hodges (as), Paul Gonsalves (ts), Harry Carney (bars); Jimmy Woode (b); Sam Woodyard (d). Rec. October, 1965, in Los Angeles.
#15	Mack The Knife (Kurt Weill - Bertolt Brecht - Marc Blitzstein) with the Paul Smith Quartet: Smith (p); Jim Hall (g); Wilfred Middlebrooks (b); Gus Johnson (d). Rec. February 13, 1960, at the Deutschlandhallen, live in Berlin.
#16	Dream (Johnny Mercer) Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra: orchestra probably includes Buddy DeFranco (cl); Willie Smith (as), Plas Johnson (ts); Paul Smith or Lou Levy (p); Al Stoller (d). Rec. October 19-21, 1961, in Los Angeles.

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