Hello Love is a 1959 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded over two sessions in 1957 and 1959.
The album focuses on well known songs not included in Fitzgerald's epic Songbooks project, and several of the songs are tunes that she had recently recorded in duet with Louis Armstrong.
Contents
Track listing
For the 1959 Verve LP release, Verve VS-4034; re-issued in 2004 on CD, Verve 0602498625811
Side One:
"You Go to My Head" (John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 4:38
"Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 4:03
"I'm Thru with Love" (Gus Kahn, Fud Livingston, Matty Malneck) – 3:48
"Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year" (Frank Loesser) – 3:20
"Everything Happens to Me" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 3:55
"Lost in a Fog" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 4:04
Side Two:
"I've Grown Accustomed to His Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 3:07
"I'll Never Be the Same" (Kahn, Malneck, Frank Signorelli) – 4:27
"So Rare" (Jerry Herst, Jack Sharpe) – 3:37
"Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:12
"Stairway to the Stars" (Malneck, Mitchell Parish, Signorelli) – 2:54
"Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 3:20
Personnel
Ella Fitzgerald – vocals
Frank DeVol – arranger, conductor
Milt Bernhart – trombone
George Roberts
Lloyd Ulyate
Pete Candoli – trumpet
Harry "Sweets" Edison
Ray Linn
George Werth
Clint Neagley – alto saxophone
Ben Webster – tenor saxophone
Bert Gassman – oboe
Arnold Koblentz
Gordon Schoneberg
Skeets Herfurt – woodwind
Joseph J. Koch
Ernest Romersa
Norm Herzberg – bassoon
Kenneth Lowman
Jack Marsh
Martin Ruderman – flute
Sylvia Ruderman
Milt Holland – percussion
Barney Kessel – guitar
Abe Luboff – double bass
Joe Mondragon
Philip Stephens