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The Songbooks (1950 - 1959)
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- Host Intro 0:00
- Ella Fitzgerald with Ellis Larkins "Someone to Watch Over Me" from The Jazz Singers (Smithsonian) 2:57
- Ella Fitzgerald With Buddy Bregman's Orchestra "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" from Sings Cole Porter (Verve) 6:11
- Host speaks 9:42
- Ella Fitzgerald -Louis Armstrong with The Russell Garcia Orchestra. "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" from Porgy and Bess (Verve) 10:53
- Gil Evans Orchestra with Miles Davis "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess (Columbia) 16:21
- Host speaks 19:38
- Charlie Parker Quintet "I Love Paris" from Charlie Parker Plays Cole Porter. (Verve) 21:47
- Sonny Criss Quintet "Love for Sale" from Sonny Criss Plays Cole Porter. (Imperial) 25:51
- Anita O'Day With Billy May Orchestra "Night and Day" from Anita Swings Cole Porter (Verve) 29:34
- Host speaks 31:33
- Shelly Manne and his Friends "Get Me to the Church on Time" from My Fair Lady (Contemporary) 34:07
- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers "I Could Have Danced All Night" from Selections from Lerner and Lowe's My Fair Lady, Brigadoon and Paint Your Wagon (Vik LAK) 38:18
- Chet Baker Septet "Show Me" from Plays the Best of Lerner & Loewe (Riverside) 42:36
- Host speaks 49:02
- Mel Torme with the Marty Paich Dectet "Cheek to Cheek" from Cheek to Cheek (Bethlehem) 50:24
- Paul Weston Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald and Harry "Sweets" Edison "Blue Skies" from The Norton Collection (Norton) 53:22
- Host Outro 57:06
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