5 Facts About Ella Fitzgerald’s Rodgers and Hart Songbook

Recording began on August 21, 1956 The sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles.

It was the first of Fitzgerald’s eight Songbook albums This project launched her acclaimed series of composer-focused albums.

The album features 32 songs by Rodgers and Hart It covers their most famous work from the 1920s and 1930s.

Arrangements were by Buddy Bregman Bregman conducted the orchestra and wrote the charts.

The album was a critical and commercial success It helped revive interest in the Great American Songbook.