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    Early Years, Pts. 1-2

    06/06/1995

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    All Music Guide Review

    This combines two double-discs of Fitzgerald's earliest work in one deluxe package. The first double-disc covers her recordings with the Chick Webb band between 1935 and 1938, when Ella was the star singing attraction with the band. Fitzgerald's interpretations of such warhorses as "Shine" and "Darktown Strutter's Ball" already show a fine hand for timing that would deepen in time. Her breakthrough hit, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," and its follow-up, "I Found My Yellow Basket," are here, along with nice reads of "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," "The Dipsy Doodle," and the very interesting "Wacky Dust." The second disc chronicles Ella taking over the band after Webb's untimely death in 1939 and ends in 1942, having become a major force in jazz vocalizing. The band becomes almost secondary to shining the spotlight on Fitzgerald, but the material stays high-quality throughout. The transfers on all four discs is top-notch, and in them you hear the development of one of the music's greatest singers. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide

    Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • 1
  • I'll Chase the Blues Away
  • 2:30

  • 2
  • Love and Kisses
  • 3:15

  • 3
  • Rhythm and Romance
  • 3:02

  • 4
  • Under the Spell of the Blues
  • 2:56

  • 5
  • When I Get Low I Get High
  • 2:23

  • 6
  • Sing Me a Swing Song (And Let Me Dance)
  • 2:33

  • 7
  • A Little Bit Later On
  • 3:00

  • 8
  • Love, You're Just a Laugh
  • 3:07

  • 9
  • You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini) (#)
  • 2:52

  • 10
  • Vote for Mr. Rhythm
  • 2:24

  • 11
  • My Last Affair
  • 2:41

  • 12
  • Organ Grinder's Swing
  • 2:47

  • 13
  • Shine
  • 2:47

  • 14
  • Darktown Strutters' Ball
  • 3:00

  • 15
  • Take Another Guess
  • 2:40

  • 16
  • You Showed Me the Way
  • 3:16

  • 17
  • Cryin' Mood
  • 2:35

  • 18
  • If You Ever Should Leave
  • 3:02

  • 19
  • Everyone's Wrong But Me
  • 3:01

  • 20
  • Just a Simple Melody
  • 2:55

  • 21
  • I Got a Guy
  • 3:18

  • 22 (2)
  • Rock It for Me
  • 3:06

  • 23 (2)
  • I Want to Be Happy
  • 4:28

  • 24 (2)
  • The Dipsy Doodle
  • 3:07

  • 25 (2)
  • If Dreams Come True
  • 2:32

  • 26 (2)
  • Hallelujah
  • 4:02

  • 27 (2)
  • Bei Mir Bist du Schön
  • 3:00

  • 28 (2)
  • It's My Turn Now
  • 2:52

  • 29 (2)
  • It's Wonderful
  • 2:53

  • 30 (2)
  • I Was Doing All Right
  • 2:51

  • 31 (2)
  • A-Tisket, A-Tasket
  • 2:36

  • 32 (2)
  • Heart of Mine
  • 2:51

  • 33 (2)
  • I'm Just a Jitterbug
  • 3:13

  • 34 (2)
  • You Can't Be Mine (And Someone Else's Too)
  • 2:55

  • 35 (2)
  • If You Only Knew
  • 2:42

  • 36 (2)
  • Pack up Your Sins and Go to the Devil
  • 2:52

  • 37 (2)
  • McPherson Is Rehearsin' (To Swing)
  • 3:04

  • 38 (2)
  • Everybody Step
  • 2:40

  • 39 (2)
  • Wacky Dust
  • 3:00

  • 40 (2)
  • Strictly from Dixie
  • 2:44

  • 41 (2)
  • F.D.R. Jones
  • 2:49

  • 42 (2)
  • It's Foxy
  • 2:56

  • 43 (2)
  • A-Tisket, A-Tasket
  • 2:33

  • 44 (3)
  • Undecided
  • 3:17

  • 45 (3)
  • 'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)
  • 2:56

  • 46 (3)
  • My Heart Belongs to Daddy
  • 2:59

  • 47 (3)
  • Chew, Chew, Chew (Your Bubble Gum)
  • 2:58

  • 48 (3)
  • Don't Worry 'Bout Me
  • 3:05

  • 49 (3)
  • If You Ever Change Your Mind
  • 3:02

  • 50 (3)
  • Little White Lies
  • 2:50

  • 51 (3)
  • Coochi-Coochi-Coo
  • 2:59

  • 52 (3)
  • Betcha Nickel
  • 2:51

  • 53 (3)
  • Stairway to the Stars
  • 3:15

  • 54 (3)
  • I Want the Waiter (With the Water)
  • 3:05

  • 55 (3)
  • Out of Nowhere
  • 2:56

  • 56 (3)
  • My Last Goodbye
  • 3:14

  • 57 (3)
  • Billy (I Always Dream of Billy)
  • 2:37

  • 58 (3)
  • You're Gonna Lose Your Gal
  • 3:05

  • 59 (3)
  • After I Say I'm Sorry
  • 2:49

  • 60 (3)
  • Moonray
  • 2:57

  • 61 (3)
  • Sugar Blues
  • 2:44

  • 62 (3)
  • The Starlit Hour
  • 3:04

  • 63 (3)
  • What's the Matter With Me?
  • 2:53

  • 64 (3)
  • Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
  • 2:32

  • 65 (4)
  • If It Weren't for You
  • 2:56

  • 66 (4)
  • Imagination
  • 2:55

  • 67 (4)
  • Deedle-De-Dum
  • 2:35

  • 68 (4)
  • Shake Down the Stars
  • 2:43

  • 69 (4)
  • Gulf Coast Blues
  • 2:54

  • 70 (4)
  • Five O'Clock Whistle
  • 3:07

  • 71 (4)
  • Louisville, K-Y
  • 3:05

  • 72 (4)
  • Taking a Chance on Love
  • 3:03

  • 73 (4)
  • Cabin in the Sky
  • 2:43

  • 74 (4)
  • I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town
  • 2:38

  • 75 (4)
  • Three Little Words
  • 2:29

  • 76 (4)
  • The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)
  • 3:02

  • 77 (4)
  • The Muffin Man
  • 2:23

  • 78 (4)
  • Keep Cool, Fool
  • 2:58

  • 79 (4)
  • No Nothing
  • 3:04

  • 80 (4)
  • My Man
  • 2:58

  • 81 (4)
  • I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
  • 2:32

  • 82 (4)
  • I Must Have That Man!
  • 3:07

  • 83 (4)
  • When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
  • 2:41

  • 84 (4)
  • I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
  • 2:54

  • 85 (4)
  • Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
  • 2:46

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