Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book

Estas cosas más clásicas se necesita que alguien te guíe para no ir por el mal camino. Qué bien suena incluso con auriculares!!! Hay quejas de que es muy largo, pero al fin y al cabo es un todo, es como quejarse de la obra de un compositor clásico. Merece la pena escucharlo aunque sea en varias sesiones.

I'd be okay with it being background music in a store while I was running errands, but it's nothing I would ever put on myself.

Lovely because it’s Ella Fitzgerald!

Great voice - would put on to seem sophisticated at a dinner party. Doesn't give me the "feels" though.

This is a lot of music. Very much not my style, but it's nice background music. Next time I'm hosting gay men 'of a certain age' I know my soundtrack now.

So many slow songs. Lovely instrumentation throughout though.

Listened to the best of because the full one is way to long. 2.5 per track, the comments here are overhyped.

Its hard to overstate how classic this is.

This was good. Everything about it was just a little too clean for my tastes. I would enjoy listening to it again - but won’t seek it out.

Only giving 4 stars because of the length. Perfect for my morning walk

Gonna be brutally honest, I love Ella Fitzgerald, but ain't nobody got 3 hours to listen to non stop Gershwin songs. She doesn't even song for the first 15 or so minutes. I understand the reasoning behind it and it's part of the larger overarching "Ella sings the whole ass complete American Songbook" that last for around 15 hours, but I'm not American and I have no connection to it and it's all very old and tedious...

dooooooon't be a naughty baby.

The moment I loaded this album up, I knew I was gonna put it off to the last minute, and I did (for good reason). I did "the very best of..." version of this album on spotify, and I think if I were to do the full 3hr track, I might become braindead. I really didn't think it was actually all that bad, it was very calming, and I found myself smiling at the first track and relating to the lyrics in a strange, yet direct way. That being said, I enjoyed a very little portion of the album, and I'm so bored that I decided to write this review to express my feelings about this track. Whatever, it was better than the Billie Holiday record I just had.

Ella zingt bijzonder zuiver en muzikaal correct. Knap, maar dat brave geluid prikkelt mij niet. Het is vooral prima voor op de achtergrond. Kom ik nog goed weg. Via de Spotify-link kreeg ik de compilatie. Ik begreep dat anderen de volledige 3-uur+ versie voor hun plaat kregen. Dat lijkt mij toch wel veel superzoete, ouderwetse zang. Drie kwartier is een prima lengte.

I only listened to "The Very Best of The Gershwin Song Book" and that's all I needed to hear.

Did I really need 3 hours of Ella Fitzgerald on a Thursday night? Apparently, yes.

Her voice is great, don't get me wrong, but this all sounds the same, and that's over three hours of all the same. That's ridiculous, and the fact that this is a compilation hurts it more. Lots of songs where words are rhymed by adding "-a" at the end, and that was annoying. Just an annoyed experience, overall, and her voice saves it from the dreaded one star.

Some of the best songs ever written, sung by one of the best ever singers.

Ella Fitzgerald is recognized the world over as "The First Lady of Song". She is a jazz vocalist with a phenomenal and powerful voice. Her scatting ability is awesome!

This is a monolithic album (the longest on this 1001 album generator, I believe) coming in at 3 hours, 14 minutes, and consisting of 59 songs. The Spotify link in the album generator links to the "Best of the Gershwin Song Book", which is a slimmed down 12 song, 45 minute listen. I, however, opted to listen to the full album, because that is what the 1001 albums book is referring to.

Even though this is a huge undertaking of a listen, I enjoyed it all the same. I listened in sections throughout the day, instead of cover to cover, all at once. I think this made it better, because 3 hrs straight of jazz is a lot to digest. This is perfect coffee house jazz, and reminds me a lot of "Fallout" music, which is the best part of that game series.

The last 6 songs are just instrumental numbers by Nelson Riddle, and they aren't as good as the music that contains Ella's voice. Not bad, they sound a lot like Disney movie or Looney Tunes instrumental numbers, just not as powerful as the rest or the album.

Bernard Buffet created the artwork for the 5 original LP's that made up the original release. Based on the piece of artwork I saw, Bernard did poor Ella dirty. What a homely painting.

Overall, a great listen. I suggest giving the full record a try, and breaking it up like I did. There are a lot of gems contained on the full record, that didn't make it to the "best of" compilation.

Favourite songs: The Real American Folk Song, Things Are Looking Up, Nice Work if You Can Get It, Let's Call The Whole Thing Off, 'S Wonderful, My Cousin in Milwaukee, The Half of It Dearie Blues, Boy What Love Has Done to Me, Lorelei, I Got Rhythm

Least favourite songs: A Foggy Day, Somebody from Somewhere, Just Another Rhumba, Sam and Delilah, Embraceable You

3/5

What a voice! All the songs sound about a hundred years old, which is fair enough, because they are.
Very catchy, very enjoyable, very good

Only listened to the greatest hits from the Gershwin Song book as per the Spotify link, Great voice and great songs can see me revisiting this.