| The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve | ||||
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| Released | May 20, 1997 | |||
| Recorded | August 1956 – October 1957 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 90:45 | |||
| Label | Verve | |||
| Producer | Michael Lang, Ben Young, Steve Fallone | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [2] |
The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve is a compilation album released on Verve Records in 1997. It comprises three compact discs containing the three studio albums made for the label by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, released during 1956 through 1958.
Its 47 tracks are collated from Ella and Louis, Ella and Louis Again, and Porgy and Bess. Two tracks are from an August 15, 1956, concert at the Hollywood Bowl with the duo backed by Armstrong's touring band, the All Stars.[1][3] Disc one tracks one through eleven comprise Ella and Louis, while disc one tracks 12 through 16 and disc two tracks one through 14 comprise Ella and Louis Again. The Hollywood Bowl performances are on tracks 15 and 16 of disc two, and disc three contains the Porgy and Bess album. Not all tracks are vocal duets and are indicated below.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Can't We Be Friends?" | Paul James, Kay Swift | 3:47 |
| 2. | "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" | Irving Berlin | 6:16 |
| 3. | "Moonlight in Vermont" | John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf | 3:42 |
| 4. | "They Can't Take That Away from Me" | Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin | 4:39 |
| 5. | "Under a Blanket of Blue" | Jerry Livingston, Al J. Neiburg, Marty Symes | 4:18 |
| 6. | "Tenderly" | Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence | 5:10 |
| 7. | "A Foggy Day" | Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin | 4:32 |
| 8. | "Stars Fell on Alabama" | Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins | 3:34 |
| 9. | "Cheek to Cheek" | Irving Berlin | 5:53 |
| 10. | "The Nearness of You" | Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington | 5:42 |
| 11. | "April in Paris" | Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg | 6:33 |
| 12. | "Don't Be That Way" | Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson, Mitchell Parish | 4:59 |
| 13. | "Makin' Whoopee" (Armstrong solo vocal) | Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn | 3:56 |
| 14. | "They All Laughed" | Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin | 3:46 |
| 15. | "Comes Love" (Fitzgerald solo vocal) | Lew Brown, Sam Stept, Charles Tobias | 2:25 |
| 16. | "Autumn in New York" | Vernon Duke | 5:57 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Overture" (instrumental) | George Gershwin (arranged by Russell Garcia) | 10:52 |
| 2. | "Summertime" | DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin | 4:58 |
| 3. | "I Wants to Stay Here" (Fitzgerald solo vocal) | DuBose Heyward, Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin | 4:38 |
| 4. | "My Man's Gone Now" (Fitzgerald solo vocal) | DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin | 4:02 |
| 5. | "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" | DuBose Heyward, Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin | 3:52 |
| 6. | "Buzzard Song" (Fitzgerald solo vocal) | DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin | 2:58 |
| 7. | "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" | DuBose Heyward, Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin | 5:28 |
| 8. | "It Ain't Necessarily So" | Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin | 6:34 |
| 9. | "What You Want Wid Bess?" (Fitzgerald solo vocal) | DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin | 1:59 |
| 10. | "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing" (Armstrong solo vocal) | DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin | 4:47 |
| 11. | "Oh, Doctor Jesus" (Fitzgerald solo vocal) | DuBose Heyward, Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin | 2:00 |
| 12. | "Here Come de Honey Man / Crab Man / Oh, Dey's So Fresh and Fine" | DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin | 3:29 |
| 13. | "There's a Boat Dat's Leavin Soon for New York" (Armstrong solo vocal) | Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin | 4:54 |
| 14. | "Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?" (Armstrong solo vocal) | Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin | 2:36 |
| 15. | "Oh Lawd, I'm on My Way!" (Armstrong solo vocal with chorus) | DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin | 2:57 |
