![]() The icing on the cake is the newly created 120-page tome that puts both the eight respective songbooks - and their over 240 musical selections - in proper context of Fitzgerald's luminous career. Readers are also treated to behind-the-scenes insights on the artist's interaction with the veritable who's who of arrangers. Among them are Buddy Bregman, who worked on Cole Porter as well as Rodgers & Hart the dynamic duo of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn on the Ellington set Paul Weston directed the Irving Berlin entry Nelson Riddle was in charge of the George and Ira Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, and Jerome Kern installments and Billy May held the baton during the Harold Arlen sessions. There are a few sides that shouldn't be overlooked, especially as they are otherwise or formerly unavailable. ![]() Particularly worthy of mention are "You're the Top," "I Concentrate on You," and "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" from Cole Porter. Plus, a ten-minute rehearsal with Ellington and an alternate of "Chelsea Bridge" from the same.
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