So, you vinyl collectors, there should be a big sound discrepancy between the 1956 pressings and all other pressings made after the start of 1957. Ami Hadani cut the new mono parts boosting the midband (for whatever reason) another 2 db at 3kc and reducing the bass -2 at 150 cycles. On that same day, parts were recut using the new "easy play" tapes. These new reels were marked "Master" and the old Capitol reels marked (guess what?) NFM (Not For Master). 7, 1957 at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, the four Capitol Studio tapes were redubbed using the Radio Recorders "Cinema EQ" which was (for whatever reason), losing all info below 55 cycles, boosting the 5k range by +4 and killing all top end over 10k with the limiter set on stun (4:1). I don't mean they recorded it over, I do mean they REDUBBED all four sides. NO IDEA WHY.Ībout a year later, for whatever reason (probably consumer complaints that their records skipped) there was a massive redo of this (now famous) double album. The four sides were also mastered at Capitol on that same day and shipped to RCA, Rockaway, NJ for pressing.ĮDIT: NO, RADIO RECORDERS, NOT CAPITOL. The 2 hour album was assembled on 4-9-56 (not sure why the long wait). I have matrix / master numbers if anyone cares. and March of 1956 at Capitol, Melrose (KHJ Studios), engineer Val Valentin. The double album (8 songs a side, almost 1/2 hour each, four sides, a massive undertaking) was recorded Feb. Ella Fitzgerald - I Concentrate On You (Alternate Version Remastered) (3:03)ġ9.For those of you who love and collect versions of Ella's first groundbreaking album for Verve Records, I have some info for you and hopefully you have some info for me. Ella Fitzgerald - You're The Top (Alternate Version Remastered) (2:11)ġ8. Ella Fitzgerald - Don't Fence Me In (Remastered) (3:23)ġ7. Ella Fitzgerald - I Concentrate On You (Remastered) (3:14)ġ6. Ella Fitzgerald - I've Got You Under My Skin (Remastered) (2:43)ġ5. Ella Fitzgerald - So In Love (Remastered) (3:52)ġ4. ![]() Ella Fitzgerald - Ace In The Hole (Remastered) (1:59)ġ3. Ella Fitzgerald - Night And Day (Remastered) (3:06)ġ2. Ella Fitzgerald - It's DeLovely (Remastered) (2:44)ġ1. Ella Fitzgerald - Love For Sale (Remastered) (5:53)ġ0. Ella Fitzgerald - You're The Top (Remastered) (3:33)Ġ9. Ella Fitzgerald - What Is This Thing Called Love (Remastered) (2:05)Ġ8. Ella Fitzgerald - Why Can't You Behave? (Remastered) (5:06)Ġ7. Ella Fitzgerald - It's All Right With Me (Remastered) (3:09)Ġ6. ![]() Ella Fitzgerald - Easy To Love (Remastered) (3:26)Ġ5. Ella Fitzgerald - Ridin' High (Remastered) (3:23)Ġ4. ![]() ![]() Ella Fitzgerald - You Do Something To Me (Remastered) (2:23)Ġ3. Ella Fitzgerald - I Love Paris (Remastered) (4:58)Ġ2. Afterwards, Porter merely remarked, "My, what marvelous diction that girl has".Ġ1. Fitzgerald's manager, and the producer of many of her albums, Norman Granz, visited Cole Porter at the Waldorf-Astoria, and played him this entire album. The album was recorded February 7-9 & Main Hollywood, Los Angeles. This album inaugurated Fitzgerald's Songbook series, each of the eight albums in the series focusing on a different composer of the canon known as the Great American Songbook. This was Fitzgerald's first album for the newly created Verve Records (and the first album to be released by the label.) Fitzgerald's time on the Verve label would see her produce her most highly acclaimed recordings, at the peak of her vocal powers. Ella Fitzgerald - "Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book" Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook is a 1956 studio album by American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs of Cole Porter.
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