Episode 51, “Ella Fitzgerald,”

Show 51, “Ella Fitzgerald,” features 16 recordings by a towering figure in jazz and popular music. Songs include “I Wish I Were in Love Again,” “Fly Me to the Moon,” “Manhattan,” “A Tisket, a Tasket,” and “I Want the Waiter with the Water.” The show concludes with a recording made in front of a live audience during which Fitzgerald couldn’t remember the words of her song. She improvised so skillfully that her performance won a Grammy Award.



Show 51
Ella Fitzgerald




Playlist




1
Manhattan
Ella Fitzgerald



2
You Do Something to Me
Ella Fitzgerald



3
A Tisket a Tasket
Ella Fitzgerald and Chick Webb



4
I Want the Waiter with the Water
Ella Fitzgerald



5
Lullabye of Birdland
Ella Fitzgerald



6
Hernando’s Hideaway
Ella Fitzgerald



7
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots



8
Cow Cow Boogie
Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots



9
Baby It’s Cold Outside
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan



10
With a Song in my Heart
Ella Fitzgerald



12
Flying Home
Ella Fitzgerald



11
You Won’t Be Satisfied Until You Break My Heart
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong



13
I Wish I Were in Love Again
Ella Fitzgerald and Pat Boone



14
Just One of Those Things
Ella Fitzgerald and Buddy Bregman and his Orchestra



15
Fly Me to the Moon
Ella Fitzgerald



16
Mack the Knife
Ella Fitzgerald



   

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