Twelve Nights in Hollywood

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Twelve Nights In Hollywood
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ReleasedNovember 10, 2009
Recorded11–21 May 1961, and June 29–30, 1962
Venue Crescendo Club, West Hollywood
Genre Jazz
Label Verve
Producer Norman Granz
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
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(1991)
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(2009)
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Twelve Nights in Hollywood is a 2009 live album by the American jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, recorded at the Crescendo Club in Hollywood, Los Angeles over ten nights in May 1961, and a subsequent pair of performances in June 1962. [2]

Contents

In 1961 Fitzgerald released an album of her live performances at the Crescendo, Ella in Hollywood . This album repeats none of those tracks, or the subsequent two singles that resulted from her 1962 stay, "Ol' Man Mose" and "Bill Bailey".

Track listing

For Volume 1 & 2 issued on Verve 2CD; Verve B0014022-2

Disc One:

  1. Introduction – 0:48
  2. "Lover Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) – 1:55
  3. "Too Close for Comfort" (Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, George David Weiss) – 2:39
  4. "Little White Lies" (Walter Donaldson) – 3:01
  5. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:49
  6. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:53
  7. "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) – 3:47
  8. "I Found a New Baby" (Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams) – 2:28
  9. "On a Slow Boat to China" (Frank Loesser) – 2:25
  10. "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (Cole Porter) – 3:15
  11. "Perdido" (Ervin Drake, Hans J. Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol) – 6:52
  12. "I've Got a Crush on You" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:23
  13. "But Not for Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:10
  14. "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman) – 3:03
  15. "Across the Alley from the Alamo" (Joe Greene) – 2:00
  16. "I'm Glad There Is You" (Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Mertz) – 3:15
  17. "'Round Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 3:37
  18. "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 6:45
  19. "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)" (Sam Coslow) – 4:10

Disc Two:

  1. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 02:29
  2. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, I. Gershwin) – 3:31
  3. "Give Me the Simple Life" (Rube Bloom, Harry Ruby) – 1:53
  4. "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Tizol) – 2:05
  5. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 4:18
  6. "Lorelei" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:16
  7. "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (Van Alexander, Ella Fitzgerald) – 1:54
  8. "Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 3:04
  9. "Gone with the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 2:31
  10. "Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" (Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 3:45
  11. "It's De-Lovely" (Porter) – 2:15
  12. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:41
  13. "That Old Black Magic" (Arlen, Mercer) – 3:33
  14. "Lullaby of Birdland" (George Shearing, George David Weiss) – 2:08
  15. Ella Introduces the Band – 0:39
  16. "Imagination" (Johnny Burke (lyricist), Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:41
  17. "Blue Moon" (Hart, Rodgers) – 3:08
  18. "Joe Williams' Blues" (Fitzgerald) – 7:21

For Volume 3 & 4 issued on Verve 2CD; Verve B0014394-2

Disc Three:

  1. "The Lady's in Love with You" (Burton Lane, Loesser) – 1:39
  2. "Love Is Here to Stay" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:34
  3. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Arlen, Mercer) – 3:36
  4. "Anything Goes" (Porter) – 02:26
  5. "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" (Steve Allen) – 2:25
  6. "Candy" (Mack David, Joan Whitney Kramer, Alex Kramer) – 5:07
  7. "Little Girl Blue" (Hart, Rodgers) – 3:49
  8. "You're Driving Me Crazy" (Donaldson) – 3:30
  9. "It's All Right with Me" (Porter) – 2:33
  10. "Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)" (Ellington, Lee Gaines) – 2:49
  11. "'S Wonderful" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:28
  12. "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) – 6:20
  13. "Deep Purple" (Peter DeRose, Mitchell Parish) – 2:17
  14. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 3:33
  15. "Mack the Knife" (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 3:53
  16. "Exactly Like You" (Fields, McHugh) – 4:30
  17. "Rock It for Me" (Kay Werner, Sue Werner) – 3:35
  18. "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Benny Goodman, Andy Razaf, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb) – 6:49
  19. "Love for Sale" (Porter) – 4:11
  20. "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 6:05

Disc Four: Recorded on June 29–30, 1962

  1. "All of Me" (Harold Marks, Seymour Simons) – 3:15
  2. "Hard Hearted Hannah" (Milton Ager, Chas Bates, Bob Bigelow, Jack Yellen) – 2:38
  3. "Broadway" (Billy Bird, Teddy McRae, Henri Woode) – 2:46
  4. "My Kind of Boy" (Leslie Bricusse) – 2:42
  5. "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 3:56
  6. "C'est Magnifique" (Porter) – 3:28
  7. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:49
  8. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) – 2:10
  9. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) – 2:23
  10. "Good Morning Heartache" (Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham) – 4:24
  11. "Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley!" (Ballard MacDonald, Joseph Meyer, Billy Rose) – 3:23
  12. "Hallelujah I Love Him So" (Ray Charles) – 2:19
  13. "Angel Eyes" (Matt Dennis, Earl Brent) – 3:25
  14. "Ol' Man Mose" (Louis Armstrong, Zilner Randolph) – 3:13
  15. "Teach Me Tonight" (Sammy Cahn, de Paul) – 3:06
  16. Medley: "Too Darn Hot"/"Ella's Twist" (Porter)/(Fitzgerald) – 1:10
  17. "Too Darn Hot" – 2:41
  18. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Hart, Rodgers) – 5:19
  19. "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey" (Hughie Cannon) – 3:41
  20. "Bill Bailey Reprise" – 3:32

Personnel

Performance

Discs 1 to 3:

Disc 4:

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References

  1. "Twelve Nights In Hollywood". Allmusic . All Media Guide . Retrieved 2011-07-22.
  2. Twelve Nights In Hollywood at AllMusic