Up for auction is the sought after France Reissue box set of the 1959 classic release "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook" on Verve Records #2615 063 from 1982. This was a gorgeous import only release from 1982 staying true to the original 1959 release. Visually graded using Goldmine standards, all the vinyl rate a near mint with beautiful shine and almost no wear. The inner jackets and the outside box are also in near mint condition with vibrant colors and no splits. Comes from original owner and was well taken care of.  Low starting bid and no reserve. Will be packaged with utmost care with records outside of the jackets and box inside a sturdy package. All song titles are listed in the pictures. Don't miss out!!!

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book is a 1959 five album set by the American  singer , focusing on the songs of  and . It was recorded with the , marking the first time that Fitzgerald and Riddle had worked together.

The album cover is an original portrait of Fitzgerald by the French artist , starting a tradition of using contemporary artists for Fitzgerald's albums, the artwork of  gracing the cover of her  (1961).

Riddle arranged fifty-seven Gershwin compositions for the album, including the two orchestral suites which open the album. Though Fitzgerald was twenty-years-old at the time George Gershwin died in 1937, Ira Gershwin was still alive to see this project completed, and helped contribute lyrics and support to some songs on the album which had never been recorded before. It was this project that led Ira Gershwin to say that he had "never known how good our songs were until I heard Ella sing them".<Rockwell, J. (1986, June 15).

Ella Fitzgerald was forty-one when she recorded this album, and at the peak of her vocal powers, demonstrated in the earlier , and her two greatest live albums from this period,  (1960) and  (1958). Like the other songbooks devoted to the  composers, Fitzgerald gets only a single outlet for her notable , on "I Got Rhythm".

Fitzgerald's recording of "" won her the  for .

It is listed as one of the .

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