Ella Fitzgerald discography

Between 1935 and 1955 Ella Fitzgerald was signed to Decca Records. Her early recordings as a featured
vocalist were frequently uncredited. Her first credited single was 78 RPM recording "I'll Chase the Blues
Away" with the Chick Webb Orchestra. Fitzgerald continued recording with Webb until his death in 1939,
after which the group was renamed Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra. With the introduction of 10"
and 12" Long-Playing records in the late 1940s, Decca released several original albums of Fitzgerald's
music and reissued many of her previous single-only releases. From 1935 to the late 1940s Decca issued
Ella Fitzgerald's recordings on 78rpm singles and album collections, in book form, of four singles that
included eight tracks. These recordings have been re-issued on a series of 15 compact disc by the French
record label Classics Records between 1992 and 2008.

In 1956 Ella Fitzgerald signed with Verve Records, the Norman Granz record label. Fitzgerald recorded with
Verve until the mid-1960s. Included in this era were a series of eight Song Book albums, with interpretations
of the greater part of the Great American Songbook, with songs from the pens of Cole Porter (1956),
Rodgers & Hart (1956), Duke Ellington (1957), Irving Berlin (1958), George and Ira Gershwin (1959),
Harold Arlen (1961), Jerome Kern (1963) and Johnny Mercer (1964). Ella Fitzgerald released many stand
alone singles throughout her Verve years. These were re-issued in 2003 on the 2-CD set, Jukebox Ella: The
Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1.

The late 1960s and early 1970s saw Fitzgerald release albums on several major record labels, including
three albums on Capitol Records and two on the Reprise Records label. In 1972 Norman Granz formed
Pablo Records, the label continued to release Ella Fitzgerald's albums up until her last recorded album All
That Jazz in 1989.

In recent years the Ella Fitzgerald back catalogue has continued to grow, this includes complete albums of
previously unreleased live material and alternative recordings from her studio sessions.

Contents
Studio albums
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
Live albums
Notable guest appearances
Boxed sets and collections
Hit singles
References

Studio albums
1950s
 Title Album Details

Ella Sings Gershwin Released: 1950

Label: Decca

Songs In A Mellow Mood Released: 1954

Label: Decca

Lullabies Of Birdland Released: 1954

Label: Decca

For Sentimental Reasons Released: 1955

Label: Decca

Miss Ella Fitzgerald & Mr Gordon Jenkins Invite You To Listen And Relax Released: 1955
Label: Decca

Sweet And Hot Released: 1955

Label: Decca

Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book Released: 1956
Label: Verve

Ella And Louis (with Louis Armstrong) Released: 1956

Label: Verve

Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Rodgers & Hart Song Book Released: 1956
Label: Verve

Ella And Louis Again (with Louis Armstrong) Released: 1957

Label: Verve

Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book (with Duke Ellington) Released: 1957
Label: Verve

Like Someone In Love Released: 1957

Label: Verve

Porgy And Bess (with Louis Armstrong) Released: 1957

Label: Verve

Ella Swings Lightly Released: 1958

Label: Verve

Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book Released: 1958
Label: Verve

Get Happy! Released: 1959

Label: Verve

Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs For Swingers

 Released: 1959
Label: Verve

Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book Released: 1959
Label: Verve

1960s
 Title Album Details

Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas Released: 1960

Label: Verve

Hello, Love Released: 1960

Label: Verve

Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs From The Soundtrack Of "Let No Man Write My Epitaph"
Released: 1960
(Later re-issued as The Intimate Ella.) Label: Verve

Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Harold Arlen Song Book Released: 1961
Label: Verve

Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! Released: 1961

Label: Verve

Rhythm Is My Business Released: 1962

Label: Verve

Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson Released: 1962

Label: Verve

Ella Swings Gently With Nelson Released: 1962

Label: Verve

Ella Sings Broadway Released: 1963

Label: Verve

Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Jerome Kern Song Book Released: 1963
Label: Verve

Ella And Basie! (with Count Basie)

Released: 1963
(Later re-issued as Ella And Basie!: On The Sunny Side Of The Street.) Label: Verve

These Are The Blues Released: 1963

Label: Verve

Ella And Basie!: On The Sunny Side Of The Street (with Count Basie)
Released: 1963
(Re-issue of the album Ella And Basie!.) Label: Verve

Hello, Dolly! Released: 1964

Label: Verve

Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Johnny Mercer Song Book Released: 1964
Label: Verve

Ella At Duke's Place (with Duke Ellington)

Released: 1965
 Label: Verve

Whisper Not Released: 1966

Label: Verve

Brighten The Corner Released: 1967

Label: Capitol

Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas Released: 1967

Label: Capitol

30 By Ella Released: 1968

Label: Capitol

Misty Blue Released: 1968

Label: Capitol

Ella Released: 1969

Label: Reprise

1970s
 Title Album Details

Things Ain't What They Used To Be (And You Better Believe It) Released: 1970
Label: Reprise

Ella Loves Cole

Released: 1972
(Later re-issued as Dream Dancing.) Label: Atlantic

Take Love Easy (with Joe Pass) Released: 1973

Label: Pablo

Ella And Oscar (with Oscar Peterson) Released: 1975

Label: Pablo

Fitzgerald And Pass... Again (with Joe Pass) Released: 1976

Label: Pablo

Lady Time Released: 1978

Label: Pablo

Dream Dancing
Released: 1978
(Re-issue of the album Ella Loves Cole.) Label: Pablo

Fine And Mellow Released: 1979

Label: Pablo

A Classy Pair (with Count Basie) Released: 1979

Label: Pablo

1980s
 Title Album Details

Released:
Ella Abraça Jobim 1981
Label: Pablo

Released:
The Best Is Yet To Come 1982
Label: Pablo

Released:
Speak Love (with Joe Pass) 1983
Label: Pablo

Released:
Nice Work If You Can Get It (with André Previn) 1983
Label: Pablo

Released:
Easy Living (with Joe Pass) 1986
Label: Pablo

Released:
All That Jazz 1989
Label: Pablo

The Intimate Ella

Released:
(Re-issue of the album Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs From The Soundtrack Of 1989
"Let No Man Write My Epitaph".) Label: Verve-
Polygram

Live albums
 Title Album Details

Ella Fitzgerald And Billie Holiday At Newport Released: 1958

Label: Verve

Ella At The Opera House Released: 1958

Label: Verve

Ella In Berlin: Mack The Knife Released: 1960

Label: Verve

Ella In Hollywood Released: 1961

Label: Verve

Ella At Juan-Les-Pins Released: 1964

Label: Verve

Ella In Hamburg Released: 1965

Label: Verve

Ella And Duke At The Cote D'Azur (with Duke Ellington) Released: 1966
Label: Verve

Live From The Cave Supper Club Released: 1968

Sunshine Of Your Love Released: 1969

Label: MPS

Jazz At Santa Monica Civic '72 Released: 1972

Label: Pablo

Newport Jazz Festival: Live At Carnegie Hall Released: 1973

Label: Columbia

Ella In London Released: 1974

Label: Pablo

Ella Fitzgerald And Her Orchestra Live From The Roseland Ballroom, 1940 Released: 1974
Label: Sunbeam – SB 205

At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 Released: 1975

Label: Pablo

Montreux '77 Released: 1977

Label: Pablo

Digital III At Montreux Released: 1979

Label: Pablo

A Perfect Match (with Count Basie)

Released: 1979
 Label: Pablo

Ella À Nice Released: 1982

Label: Pablo

The Stockholm Concert, 1966 (with Duke Ellington) Released: 1984

Label: Pablo

Ella In Rome: The Birthday Concert Released: 1988

Label: Verve

The Greatest Jazz Concert In The World (with Duke Ellington) Released: 1990
Label: Pablo

Ella Returns To Berlin Released: 1991

Label: Verve

The Complete Ella In Berlin: Mack The Knife Released: 1993

Ella Fitzgerald With The Tommy Flanagan Trio Released: 1996

Ella In Budapest Released: 1999

Label: Pablo

Sophisticated Lady (with Joe Pass) Released: 2001

Label: Pablo

Ella Fitzgerald Live At Mister Kelly's Released: 2007

Label: Verve

Twelve Nights In Hollywood Released: 2009

Label: Verve

Ella In Japan: 'S Wonderful Released: 2011

Label: Verve

Notable guest appearances

1952: The Drum Battle (Verve Records, live, with Jazz at the Philharmonic)
1953: JATP In Tokyo - Live at the Nichigeki Theatre 1953 (Live in Tokyo with Jazz at the
Philharmonic)
1955: Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues
1956: Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl (Live in Hollywood with Jazz at the Philharmonic)
1956: Metronome All-Stars 1956 (with Count Basie)
1957: One O'Clock Jump (with Count Basie and Joe Williams)
1957: Classic Duets (Three duets with Frank Sinatra, recorded for the 1957 ABC television
The Frank Sinatra Show; released in 2002 by Capitol Records)
1983: Jazz at the Philharmonic – Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo 1983: Return to Happiness
(Pablo Records, live, with Jazz at the Philharmonic)
 1989: Back on the Block (Qwest, Quincy Jones)

Boxed sets and collections

1994 The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books
1995 Ella: The Legendary Decca Recordings
1997 The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve
1998 Swingsation: Ella Fitzgerald &with Chick Webb [1]
1998 Ella 100 [2]

Hit singles
 Chart positions
Year Single
US US US
US UK Germany
AC R&B Country

"All My Life" (with Teddy Wilson) 13

"Sing Me a Swing Song (and Let Me Dance)" (with
18
Chick Webb)
1936
"My Melancholy Baby" (with Teddy Wilson) 6
"(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have To Swing It" (with
20
Chick Webb)

"Goodnight My Love" (with Benny Goodman) 1

"Dedicated to You" (with The Mills Brothers) 19
1937 "Big Boy Blue" (with The Mills Brothers) 20
"If You Ever Should Leave" 12
"All Over Nothing At All" 20
"Rock It For Me" (with Chick Webb) 19
"I Got a Guy" (with Chick Webb) 18
"A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (with Chick Webb) 1
1938 "I Found My Yellow Basket" (with Chick Webb) 3
"Wacky Dust" (with Chick Webb) 13
"MacPherson Is Rehearsin' to Swing" (with Chick Webb) 14
"F.D.R. Jones" (with Chick Webb) 8
"Undecided" (with Chick Webb) 8
"T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)"
19
(with Chick Webb)

1939 "Chew, Chew, Chew (Your Bubble Gum)" (with Chick

14
Webb)

"I Want the Waiter (With the Water)" 9

"My Wubba Dolly" 16
"The Starlit Hour" 17
"Sing Song Swing" 23
"Imagination" 15
1940
"Sugar Blues" 27
"Shake Down the Stars" 18

"Five O'Clock Whistle"[3] 9

"Louisville K.Y." 23
1941 "Hello Ma! I Done It Again" 26
"The Muffin Man" 23
1943 "My Heart and I Decided" (with The Keys) 6
1944 "Cow-Cow Boogie" (with The Ink Spots) 10 1
"When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" 27 2
"Once Too Often" 24
 "I'm Making Believe" (with The Ink Spots) 1 2
"Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" (with The Ink Spots) 1 1
"And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine" 10
1945 "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (with The Ink Spots) 5
"It's Only a Paper Moon" 9 4
"The Frim Fram Sauce" (with Louis Armstrong) 4
"You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)"
10
(with Louis Armstrong)

1946 "Stone Cold Dead In the Market (He Had It Coming)"

7 1
(with Louis Jordan)

"Petootie Pie" (with Louis Jordan) 3

"(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" 8
"That's My Desire" 3
1947
"Guilty" 11
"My Happiness" 6 8
1948 "Tea Leaves" 24
"It's Too Soon to Know" 6
1949 "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (with Louis Jordan) 9 6
"Can Anyone Explain (No, No, No)" (with Louis
30
1950 Armstrong)

"I'll Never Be Free" (with Louis Jordon) 7

1951 "Smooth Sailing" 23 3
"Trying" 22
1952
"Walkin' By the River" 29
1953 "Crying in the Chapel" 15
"Melancholy Me" 25
1954
"I Need" 30
1956 "A Beautiful Friendship" 74
1958 "The Swinging Shepherd Blues" 15
1959 "But Not for Me" 25
"Mack the Knife" 27 19 6
1960
"How High the Moon (Part 1)" 76 46
1961 "Mr. Paganini (You'll Have to Swing It)" 103 20
"Desafinado (Slightly Out of Tune)" 102 38
1962
"Stardust Bossa Nova" 129
1963 "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home" 75
"Hello, Dolly!" 125
1964
"Can't Buy Me Love" 34 24
1965 "Ringo Beat" 127
 1968 "I Taught Him Everything He Knows" 22
1969 "Get Ready" 126

References
1. "Swingsation: Ella Fitzgerald With Chick Webb" (https://open.spotify.com/album/3fFZfD4V4FvE
odhANXt9Sn?si=bnkaUXBLTl6n2dUw61UaLA). 1 January 1998. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
2. "100 Songs For A Centennial" (https://open.spotify.com/album/3lsjiId5dDmjtbkkTQwOrM).
Open.spotify.com. 21 April 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
3. "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #3" (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1633210/
m1/#track/2). 1972.

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