Todd's Ella Fitzgerald Page
Ella Fitzgerald is an important part of my music collection.
I picked up The Songbooks last
year. A little frightening at first, as it was the single most expensive
purchase of music I ever made. It's a 16 CD set that covers representative
songs from some great american songwriters:
- Cole Porter
- Rodgers and Hart
- Duke Ellington
- Irving Berlin
- George and Ira Gershwin
- Harold Arlen
- Jerome Kern
- Johnny Mercer
The whole thing is packaged very much like the original
Vinyl LP version, except extra tracks have been added (mostly outtakes
and flubs, but still very interesting). The accompanying documentation
is very illuminating. If your knowledge of Ella's talent is limited
to scat and be-bop, (as mine was) you'll find this set a shock; she's dynamite
as a "straight" singer of these standards.
I later added Ella Fitzgerald
& Louis Armstrong - The Complete Verve Recordings. A very
interesting pairing of styles and voices, this set includes excerpts from
Porgy and Bess.
With the addition of Clap Hands,
Here Comes Charlie! and Ella Wishes
You A Swinging Christmas, my Ella collection has swelled to
335 tracks. I collect lyrics and file them away in my database. Many
of the standards I have found on the internet, particularly at the Frank
Sinatra Lyric Site, but many eluded me. There were about 85 that
didn't seem to be out there anywhere. I decided that I would do it
the old fashioned way and transcribe them. I'm making slow progress,
but I'll share what I have. As an experiment, you can snag
all the files on this page in zip format.
My friends in the internet lyric community encouraged
me to put up lyrics that I've found elsewhere as well. If the page
has my name at the bottom after "trancribed by" or "validated
by" then I've either transcribed it myself or validated it against
a recording. If it doesn't, then it's something straight from my
database, and it's been snagged from somewhere else. One more thing:
you'll find "the" under "t", because that's the
way I structured the database.
I've linked all the songs here. If a song is missing
the lyric, it's noted next to the link, and I'm either looking for it or
it's on my "to do" list to transcribe. There's still a
text file on this site that describes attributes of the song, even if I'm
missing the lyric.
- "The Half of It, Dearie"
Blues - looking for a lyric
- 'Round Midnight
- 'S Wonderful
- (I Was) Born To Be Blue - looking
for a lyric
- (I'm) Always True To You
in My Fashion
- (I've Got) Beginner's Luck
- A Fine Romance
- A Foggy Day
- A Night In Tunisia
- A Ship Without A Sail
- A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
- A-Tisket A-Tasket
- Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive
- Ace In The Hole - looking for a lyric
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- All By Myself
- All Of You
- All The Things You Are
- All Through The Night
- All Too Soon
- Always
- Anything Goes
- April In Paris
- Aren't You Kind Of Glad We Did?
- looking for a lyric
- As Long As I Live - looking for
a lyric
- Autumn In New York
- Azure
- Basin Street Blues
- Begin The Beguine
- Bess, You Is My Woman Now
- Between The Devil And
The Deep Blue Sea
- Bewitched
- Bidin' My Time
- Bli-Blip - looking for a lyric
- Blue Moon
- Blue Room
- Blue Skies
- Blues In The Night (My
Mama Done Tol' Me)
- Boy Wanted
- Boy! What Love Has Done To Me!
- But Not For Me
- By Strauss
- Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
- Can't We Be Friends?
- Caravan
- Change Partners
- Cheek To Cheek
- Cheerful Little Earful
- Chelsea Bridge - Instrumental
- Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
- looking for a lyric
- Clap Yo' Hands - looking for a lyric
- Clementine - looking for a lyric
- Come Rain Or Come Shine
- Comes Love - looking for a lyric
- Cotton Tail - not much lyric here,
mostly scat / instrumental
- Crab Man
- Cry Me A River
- Dancing on the
Ceiling (He Dances on My Ceiling)
- Day Dream - looking for a lyric
- Day In - Day Out
- Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead -
looking for a lyric
- Do I Love You?
- Do Nothin' Till You Hear From
Me
- Don't Be That Way
- Don't Fence Me In
- Don't Get Around Much Any More
- Dream (When You're Feeling
Blue)
- Drop Me Off In Harlem - looking
for a lyric
- Early Autumn
- Easy To Love
- Embraceable You
- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
- Ev'rything I've Got
- Everything But You - looking
for a lyric
- Fascinating Rhythm
- For You, for Me for Evermore
- looking for a lyric
- From This Moment On
- Frosty The Snowman
- Funny Face
- Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You?
- Get Happy
- Get Out Of Town
- Get Thee Behind Me Satan
- Give It Back To The Indians -
looking for a lyric
- Good Morning Blues - looking
for a lyric
- Good Morning Heartache
- Happiness Is a Thing Called
Joe
- Have You Met Miss Jones?
- Have Yourself A Merry
Little Christmas
- He Loves And She Loves
- Heat Wave
- Here Come de Honey Man
- Here In My Arms
- Hooray For Love - looking for a
lyric
- How About Me?
- How Deep Is The Ocean
(How High Is The Sky)
- How Long Has This Been Going
On?
- How's Chances?
- I Ain't Got Nothin' But The
Blues
- I Am In Love - looking for a lyric
- I Can't Be Bothered Now
- I Concentrate On You
- I Could Write A Book
- I Didn't Know About You - looking
for a lyric
- I Didn't Know What Time It Was
- I Get A Kick Out Of You
- I Got A Guy - looking for a lyric
- I Got It Bad (and That Ain't
Good)
- I Got Plenty o' Nuttin
- I Got Rhythm
- I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
- I Let a Song Go Out Of My Heart
- I Love Paris
- I Remember You
- I Used To Be Color Blind
- I Wants To Stay Here
- I Was Doing All Right
- I Wish I Were In Love Again
- I Won't Dance
- I'll Be Hard To Handle
- I'm Beginning To See The Light
- I'm Just A Lucky So and So
- looking for a lyric
- I'm Old Fashioned
- I'm Putting All My Eggs
In One Basket
- I've Got A Crush on You
- I've Got Five Dollars
- I've Got My Love To Keep Me
Warm
- I've Got The World On A String
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- Ill Wind (You're Blowing
Me No Good) - looking for a lyric
- In A Mellow Tone
- In a Sentimental Mood
- In The Still Of The Night
- Isn't It a Pity?
- Isn't It Romantic?
- Isn't This A Lovely
Day (To Be Caught In The Rain)
- It Ain't Necessarily So
- It Don't Mean A
Thing (if it Ain't Got That Swing)
- It Never Entered My Mind
- It Was Written in the Stars
- It's A Lovely Day Today
- It's All Right With Me
- It's De-lovely
- It's Only A Paper Moon
- Jersey Bounce
- Jingle Bells
- Johnny One Note
- Just A-sittin' and A-rockin'
- Just Another Rhumba
- Just One Of Those Things
- Just Squeeze Me (But Don't
Tease Me)
- Laura
- Lazy
- Learnin' The Blues
- Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
Let it Snow!
- Let Yourself Go
- Let's Begin
- Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
- Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)
- Let's Face The Music And Dance
- Let's Fall In Love
- Let's Kiss and Make Up - looking
for a lyric
- Let's Take A Walk Around
The Block
- Little Girl Blue
- Looking For A Boy
- Lorelei
- Lost In Meditation - looking
for a lyric
- Love For Sale
- Love Is Sweeping The Country
- Love Walked In
- Love You Madly
- Lover
- Lover Come Back To Me
- Lush Life
- Makin' Whoopee!
- Manhattan
- Midnight Sun
- Miss Otis Regrets
(She's Unable To Lunch Today)
- Mood Indigo
- Moonlight In Vermont
- Mountain Greenery
- Music Goes 'Round and Around
- My Cousin in Milwaukee - looking
for a lyric
- My Funny Valentine
- My Heart Stood Still
- My Man's Gone Now
- My One And Only
- My Reverie
- My Romance
- My Shining Hour
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Night And Day
- No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)
- Now It Can Be Told
- Of Thee I Sing (Baby)
- Oh, Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?
- Oh, Dey's So Fresh and Fine
- Oh, Doctor Jesus
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- Oh, Lawd, I'm On My Way
- Oh, So Nice - looking for a lyric
- One For My Baby (And
One More for the Road)
- Our Love Is Here To Stay
- Out Of This World
- Over The Rainbow
- Perdido
- Prelude To a Kiss
- Puttin' On The Ritz
- Reaching For The Moon - looking
for a lyric
- Remember
- Remind Me
- Ridin' High - looking for a lyric
- Rockin' In Rhythm - looking for
a lyric
- Rocks In My Bed
- Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Russian Lullaby
- Sam And Delilah
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- Satin Doll
- Shall We Dance?
- She Didn't Say Yes
- Signing Off - looking for a lyric
- Sing My Heart
- Single-O - looking for a lyric
- Skylark
- Slap That Bass
- Sleigh Ride
- Slumming On Park Avenue
- So In Love
- Solitude
- Somebody from Somewhere -
looking for a lyric
- Somebody Loves Me
- Someone To Watch Over Me
- Something's Gotta Give
- Soon
- Sophisticated Lady
- Spring Can Really Hang
You Up The Most
- Spring Is Here
- Squatty Roo - not much lyric here,
mostly scat / instrumental
- Stars Fell On Alabama
- Stella By Starlight
- Stiff Upper Lip - looking for a
lyric
- Stompin' At The Savoy
- Stormy Weather (Keeps
Rainin' All The Time)
- Strike Up The Band
- Summertime
- Suppertime
- Take The "A" Train
- Ten Cents A Dance
- Tenderly
- That Certain Feeling
- That Old Black Magic
- The Buzzard Song
- The Christmas Song
- The Lady Is a Tramp (including verse)
- The Man I Love
- The Man That Got Away - looking
for a lyric
- The Nearness of You
- The One I Love Belongs
To Somebody Else
- The Real American Folk Song
- The Song Is Ended
(but the Melody Lingers On)
- The Way You Look Tonight
- There's a Boat Dat's
Leavin' Soon for New York
- There's A Small Hotel
- These Foolish Things
(Remind Me Of You)
- They All Laughed
- They Can't Take That Away
>From Me
- Things Are Looking Up
- This Can't Be Love
- This Could Be The Start
of Something Big
- This Time The Dream's On Me
- This Year's Kisses
- Thou Swell
- To Keep My Love Alive
- Too Darn Hot - looking for a lyric
- Too Marvelous For Words
- Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails
- Trav'lin' Light - looking for a lyric
- Treat Me Rough
- Undecided
- Under A Blanket of Blue
- Wait Till You See Her
- What Are You Doing New Year's
Eve?
- What Is This Thing Called Love?
- What You Want wid Bess?
- When A Woman Loves A Man
- When The Sun Comes Out - looking
for a lyric
- Where Or When
- White Christmas
- Who Cares?
- Why Can't You Behave - looking
for a lyric
- Why Was I Born
- Willow Weep For Me
- Winter Wonderland
- With A Song in My Heart
- Yesterdays
- You Can Have Him
- You Couldn't Be Cuter
- You Do Something To Me
- You Keep Coming Back Like
A Song
- You Took Advantage of Me
- You Won't Be Satisfied
(Until You Break My Heart)
- You're Laughing At Me
- You're My Thrill
- You're The Top
- You've Got What Gets Me
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