Jazz
Recorded February 1956 at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles.
Ella Fitzgerald Vocal
Buddy Bregman Arranger, Conductor
The year 1956 saw the eagerly-awaited premier of My Fair Lady. Harold Arlen was still writing for the theater, as were Irving Berlin and Rodgers and Hammerstein. The opening of a Broadway show could still give audiences the kind of intense excitement that once heralded a new Verdi or Puccini opera in Italy. But it was an era that had reached its zenith, for, with few notable exceptions, the great age of both the Broadway and Hollywood musical was over. Neither Ella Fitzgerald nor producer Norman Granz had any way of knowing that Cole Porter had written his last show for Broadway when they recorded the first volume of "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book." |
