Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson


Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson is a 1962 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by an orchestra arranged by Nelson Riddle.
This album is one of a pair that Fitzgerald and Riddle recorded and released in 1962, the other being Ella Swings Gently with Nelson. Fitzgerald and Riddle had last worked together on her 1959 album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook.
Fitzgerald's performance on this album won her the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female at the 5th Annual Grammy Awards, this was Fitzgerald's seventh Grammy.

Track listing

For the 1962 Verve LP release; Verve MG V-4054
Side One:
  1. "When Your Lover Has Gone" – 3:00
  2. "Don't Be That Way" – 3:47
  3. "Love Me or Leave Me" – 2:49
  4. "I Hear Music" – 2:19
  5. "What Am I Here For?" – 2:43
  6. "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'" – 3:00
Side Two:
  1. "I Won't Dance" – 3:30
  2. "I Only Have Eyes for You" – 2:37
  3. "The Gentleman Is a Dope" – 3:58
  4. "Mean to Me" – 2:55
  5. "Alone Together" – 2:45
  6. "Pick Yourself Up" – 2:06
Bonus Tracks; Issued on the 1993 Verve CD re-issue, Verve 519 347-2
13. "Call Me Darling" – 2:34
14. "Somebody Loves Me" – 2:33
15. "Cheerful Little Earful" – 2:06
  • Track 13: Originally issued on 7" single; Verve 10248
  • Tracks 14 and 15: Originally issued on the 1959 album Get Happy!; Verve V6-4036

Personnel

Recorded from January 5, 1959 – December 27, 1961, at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles: