Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book


Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book is a 1964 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, focusing on the songs of Johnny Mercer. It was recorded in Los Angeles, California. This is Fitzgerald's fifth and final collaboration with Riddle during her years on the Verve label. It is also the last of the "Song Book" series of LPs dedicated to great American songwriters, which had begun in 1956 with Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book.

Track listing

For the 1964 Verve LP release; Verve V6-4067; Re-issued in 1984 on CD, Verve-PolyGram 823 247-2
Side One:
  1. "Too Marvelous for Words" – 2:31
  2. "Early Autumn" – 3:51
  3. "Day In, Day Out" – 2:49
  4. "Laura" – 3:43
  5. "This Time the Dream's on Me" – 2:54
  6. "Skylark" – 3:12
  7. "Single-O" – 3:19
Side Two:
  1. "Something's Gotta Give" – 2:33
  2. "Trav'lin' Light" – 3:47
  3. "Midnight Sun" – 4:55
  4. "Dream" – 2:58
  5. "I Remember You" – 3:38
  6. "When a Woman Loves a Man" – 3:51
''All lyrics by Johnny Mercer, composers between brackets.''

Personnel

Recorded October 19–21, 1964, at Radio Recorders Studio 10-H, Hollywood: