![]() 18 on the list of Best Sellers for the whole year, one that was dominated by soundtrack albums. By the end of the year, the double LP was No. ![]() In September Ella was the headliner on the annual JATP autumn tour of America. 15 on the Billboard Best Sellers list after Verve had taken an extensive advertising campaign in Esquire, The New Yorker, High Fidelity, and a dozen Sunday Newspapers across America. The thirty-two tracks, Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook, came out on May 15, 1956, as a double album and sold for $9.96. Two weeks before recording Ella’s version of “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” Edison and Bernhart had recorded Nelson Riddle’s arrangement of the song with Sinatra, the one featuring the trombonist’s fabulous solo. Among the cream of West Coast session musicians, many of whom graced the fabulous recordings that Frank Sinatra was making around the same time, are trumpeter, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Milt Bernhart’s trombone, Herb Geller, and Ted Nash and Bud Shank doubling on clarinets and saxophone, as well as trumpeter Maynard Ferguson. That thinking does a disservice to Bregman’s arrangements they provide the perfect musical cushion and accentuate the melodies of Porter’s wonderful songs. The reason was that I frankly didn’t care about what happened to the music.” – Norman Granz ”When I recorded Ella, I always put her out front, not a blend. Granz, while taking a chance on Bregman, would later reveal to his biographer Ted Hershorn that he was not at all bothered about the band’s arrangements. Granz had initially wanted Nelson Riddle to do the arrangements for Ella, but he refused, probably because he was committed to Frank Sinatra’s recording career at this point. ![]() It was a turning point in my life.” – Ella Fitzgerald Norman felt that I should do other things, so he produced the Cole Porter Songbook for me. ”I realized then that there was more to music than bop. ![]()
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