Show 51, “Ella Fitzgerald,” features 16 recordings by a towering figure in jazz and popular music. Songs include “I Wish I Were in Love Again,” “Fly Me to the Moon,” “Manhattan,” “A Tisket, a Tasket,” and “I Want the Waiter with the Water.” The show concludes with a recording made in front of a live audience during which Fitzgerald couldn’t remember the words of her song. She improvised so skillfully that her performance won a Grammy Award.
| Show 51 | Ella Fitzgerald | |
| Playlist | ||
| 1 | Manhattan | Ella Fitzgerald |
| 2 | You Do Something to Me | Ella Fitzgerald |
| 3 | A Tisket a Tasket | Ella Fitzgerald and Chick Webb |
| 4 | I Want the Waiter with the Water | Ella Fitzgerald |
| 5 | Lullabye of Birdland | Ella Fitzgerald |
| 6 | Hernando’s Hideaway | Ella Fitzgerald |
| 7 | Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall | Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots |
| 8 | Cow Cow Boogie | Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots |
| 9 | Baby It’s Cold Outside | Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan |
| 10 | With a Song in my Heart | Ella Fitzgerald |
| 12 | Flying Home | Ella Fitzgerald |
| 11 | You Won’t Be Satisfied Until You Break My Heart | Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong |
| 13 | I Wish I Were in Love Again | Ella Fitzgerald and Pat Boone |
| 14 | Just One of Those Things | Ella Fitzgerald and Buddy Bregman and his Orchestra |
| 15 | Fly Me to the Moon | Ella Fitzgerald |
| 16 | Mack the Knife | Ella Fitzgerald |
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