Ella Fitzgerald – Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book (2-LP Vinyl) artist-billy-strings Mashed Potato Twist

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Ella Fitzgerald – Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book (2-LP Vinyl) artist-billy-strings Mashed Potato TwistRodgers and Hart wrote some of the most harmonically rich and emotionally complex songs of the Great American Songbook, and Fitzgerald understood exactly what that demanded. Recorded in 1956, this was her second collaboration with Buddy Bregman, and the chemistry they'd built on the Porter sessions translated immediately into something even more assured. The 34 song scope of the original release gave Ella room to stretch across ballads, swing numbers,