Liner Note Author: Alain Tercinet.
Recording information: Chicago, IL (03/20/1940); Los Angeles, CA (03/20/1940); New York, NY (03/20/1940); Chicago, IL (06/12/1935-08/05/1955); Los Angeles, CA (06/12/1935-08/05/1955); New York, NY (06/12/1935-08/05/1955); Chicago, IL (07/20/1949-05/03/1955); Los Angeles, CA (07/20/1949-05/03/1955); New York, NY (07/20/1949-05/03/1955).
Photographers: Charles Peterson ; Frank Driggs; William Gottlieb; William Randolph; Herman Leonard.
Translator: Martin Davies.
Nearly a thousand minutes from the prime jazz voice of the 20th century, The Complete Masters 1935-55 spans the advent of Ella Fitzgerald's recording career singing for Chick Webb's orchestra, her long association with the Decca label, and stretches all the way to just before her debut for Verve, the label where she made all of her most celebrated recordings. Although Fitzgerald was instantly recognizable from the beginning, and a talented voice to boot, she recorded many novelties during the '30s and '40s -- all of them heard here -- including several hits ("[If You Can't Sing It] You'll Have to Swing It [Mr. Paganini]," "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"). These years weren't her best, or her most celebrated, but between the novelties and straight swing tunes, she recorded plenty of great material, including several dozen excellent recordings from American Songbook giants like George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hammerstein, and Jerome Kern. Also included are many features from Decca label-maters including Louis Armstrong, the Mills Brothers, and the Ink Spots, among others. ~ John Bush
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DISC 1: 1935-1936:
1.
I'll Chase the Blues Away
2.
Love and Kisses
3.
Rhythm and Romance
4.
I'll Chase the Blues Away
5.
My Melancholy Baby
6.
All My Life
7.
Crying My Heart Out for You
8.
Under the Spell of the Blues
9.
When I Get Low I Get High
10.
Sing Me a Swing Song (and Let Me Dance)
11.
Little Bit Later On, A
12.
Love You're Just a Laugh
13.
Devoting My Time to You
14.
(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)
15.
Swingin' on the Reservation
16.
I Got the Spring Fever Blues
17.
Vote for Mr. Rhythm
18.
Goodnight My Love
19.
Take Another Guess
20.
Didja Mean It
21.
My Last Affair
22.
Organ Grinder's Swing, The
23.
Shine
24.
Darktown Strutters' Ball
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DISC 2: 1937-1938:
1.
Take Another Guess
2.
Love Marches On
3.
Big Boy Blue
4.
There's Frost on the Moon
5.
Dedicated to You
6.
Wake Up and Live
7.
You Showed Me the Way
8.
Crying Mood
9.
Love Is the Thing, So They Say
10.
All or Nothing at All
11.
If You Ever Should Leave
12.
Everyone's Wrong But Me
13.
Deep in the Heart of the South
14.
Just a Simple Melody
15.
I Got a Guy
16.
Holiday in Harlem
17.
Rock It for Me
18.
I Want to Be Happy
19.
Dipsy Doodle, The
20.
If Dreams Come True
21.
Hallelujah!
22.
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
23.
It's My Turn Now
24.
It's Wonderful
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DISC 3: 1938:
1.
I Was Doing All Right
2.
A-Tisket, A-Tasket
3.
Heart of Mine
4.
I'm Just a Jitterbug
5.
This Time It's Real
6.
(Oh, Oh) What Do You Know About Love?
7.
You Can't Be Mine (And Someone Else's Too)
8.
We Can't Go on This Way
9.
Saving Myself for You
10.
If You Only Knew
11.
Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil
12.
McPherson Is Reharsin' (To Swing)
13.
Everybody Step
14.
Ella
15.
Wacky Dust
16.
Gotta Pebble in My Show
17.
I Can't Stop Loving You
18.
Strictly from Dixie
19.
Woe Is Me
20.
I Let a Tear Fall in the River
21.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones
22.
I Love Each Move You Make
23.
It's Foxy
24.
I Found My Yellow Basket
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DISC 4: 1939:
1.
Undecided
2.
'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)
3.
One Side of Me
4.
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
5.
Once Is Enough for Me
6.
I Had to Live and Learn
7.
Sugar Pie
8.
It's Slumbertime Along the Swanee
9.
I'm Up a Tree
10.
Chew-Chew-Chew (Chew Your Bubble Gum)
11.
Don't Worry About Me
12.
If Anything Happened to You
13.
If That's What You're Thinking, You're Wrong
14.
If You Ever Change Your Mind
15.
Have Mercy
16.
Little White Lies
17.
Coochi-Coochi-Coo
18.
That Was My Heart
19.
Betcha Nickel
20.
Stairway to the Stars
21.
I Want the Waiter (With the Water)
22.
That's All Brother
23.
Out of Nowhere
24.
My Last Goodbye
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DISC 5: 1939-1940:
1.
(I Always Dream Of) Billy
2.
Please Tell Me the Truth
3.
I'm Not Complainin'
4.
You're Gonna Lose Your Gal
5.
What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry
6.
Baby, What Else Can I Do?
7.
My Wubba Dolly (Rubber Dolly)
8.
Moon Ray
9.
Is There Somebody Else?
10.
Sugar Blues
11.
Starlit Hour, The
12.
What's the Matter with Me
13.
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
14.
If It Weren't for You
15.
Sing Song Swing
16.
Imagination
17.
Deedle-Dee-Dum
18.
Shake Down the Stars
19.
Gulf Coast Blues
20.
I Fell in Love with a Dream
21.
Five O'Clock Whistle, The
22.
So Long
23.
Louisville, KY
24.
Taking a Chance on Love
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DISC 6: 1940-1942:
1.
Cabin in the Sky
2.
I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town
3.
Three Little Words
4.
Hello Ma! I Done It Again
5.
Wishful Thinking
6.
One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else, The
7.
Muffin Man, The
8.
Keep Cool, Fool
9.
No Nothing
10.
My Man
11.
I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
12.
I Must Have That Man
13.
When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
14.
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
15.
Melinda the Mousie
16.
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
17.
Jim
18.
This Love of Mine
19.
Somebody Nobody Loves
20.
You Don't Know What Love Is
21.
Who Are You?
22.
I'm Thrilled
23.
Make Love to Me
24.
I'm Getting Mighty Lonesome for You
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DISC 7: 1942-1945:
1.
When I Come Back Crying (Will You Be Laughing at Me?)
2.
All I Need Is You
3.
Mama Come Home
4.
My Heart and I Decided
5.
(I Put) A Four Leaf Clover in Your Pocket
6.
He's My Guy
7.
Cow Cow Boogie
8.
Once Too Often
9.
Time Alone Will Tell
10.
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
11.
I'm Making Believe
12.
And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine
13.
I'm Confessin' That I Love You
14.
I'm Beginning to See the Light
15.
That's the Way It Is
16.
It's Only a Paper Moon
17.
Cry You Out of My Heart
18.
Kiss Goodnight, A
19.
Benny's Coming Home on Saturday
20.
Flying Home
21.
Stone Cold Dead in the Market
22.
Petootie Pie
23.
That's Rich
24.
I'll Always Be in Love with You
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DISC 8: 1945-1947:
1.
I'll See You in My Dreams
2.
You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)
3.
Frim Fram Sauce, The
4.
I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So
5.
I Didn't Mean a Word I Said
6.
(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
7.
It's a Pity to Say Goodnight
8.
Guilty
9.
Sentimental Journey
10.
BudElla (Blue Skies)
11.
Sunday Kind of Love, A
12.
That's My Desire
13.
Oh, Lady Be Good!
14.
Don't You Think I Ought to Know?
15.
You're Breakin' in a New Heart
16.
I Want to Learn About Love
17.
That Old Feeling
18.
My Baby Likes to Be-Bop
19.
No Sense
20.
How High the Moon
21.
I've Got a Feelin' I'm Fallin'
22.
You Turned the Tables on Me
23.
I Cried and Cried and Cried
24.
Robbin's Nest (Just When We're Fallin' in Love)
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DISC 9: 1948:
1.
Tea Leaves
2.
My Happiness
3.
It's Too Soon to Know
4.
I Can't Go On (Without You)
5.
To Make a Mistake Is Human
6.
In My Dreams
7.
I Couldn't Stay Away from You
8.
Old Mother Hubbard
9.
Someone Like You
10.
Happy Talk
11.
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair
12.
Black Coffee
13.
Lover's Gold
14.
Baby, It's Cold Outside
15.
Don't Cry, Cry Baby
16.
Crying
17.
New Shade of Blues, A
18.
In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
19.
Talk Fast, My Heart, Talk Fast
20.
I'm Waitin' for the Junkman
21.
Basin Street Blues
22.
I Hadn't Anyone Till You
23.
Dream a Little Longer
24.
Foolish Tears
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DISC 10: 1949-1950:
1.
Man Wrote a Song, A
2.
Fairy Tales
3.
I Gotta Have My Baby Back
4.
Baby, Won't You Say You Love Me
5.
Don'cha Go 'Way Mad
6.
Solid as a Rock
7.
I've Got the World on a String
8.
Sugarfoot Rag
9.
Peas and Rice
10.
M.I.S.S.I.S.S.I.P.P.I.
11.
I Don't Want the World
12.
Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own
13.
I'll Never Be Free
14.
Dream a Little Dream of Me
15.
Can Anyone Explain?
16.
Looking for a Boy
17.
My One and Only
18.
How Long Has This Been Going On?
19.
I've Got a Cruch on You
20.
But Not for Me
21.
Soon
22.
Someone to Watch Over Me
23.
Maybe
24.
Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney
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DISC 11: 1950-1951:
1.
Molasses, Molasses
2.
Little Small Town Girl
3.
I Still Feel the Same About You
4.
Lonesome Gal
5.
Bean Bag Song, The
6.
Chesapeake and Ohio, The
7.
Two Little Men in the Flying Saucer
8.
Because of Rain
9.
Hot Canary, The
10.
Even as You and I
11.
Do You Really Love Me?
12.
Love You Madly
13.
Mixed Emotions
14.
Smooth Sailing
15.
Come On-a My House
16.
I Don't Want to Take a Chance
17.
There Never Was a Baby (Like My Baby)
18.
Give a Little, Give a Little
19.
Necessary Evil
20.
Oops!
21.
Would You Like to Take a Walk?
22.
Who Walks in When I Walk Out?
23.
Baby Doll
24.
What Does It Take
12.
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DISC 12: 1951-1953:
1.
Lady Bug
2.
Lazy Day
3.
Airmail Special
4.
Rough Ridin'
5.
Guy Is a Guy, A
6.
Nowhere Guy
7.
Gee, But I'm Glad to Know You Love Me
8.
Goody Goody
9.
Angel Eyes
10.
Ding-Dong Boogie
11.
(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini), Pts. 1-2