Ella Fitzgerald - Blues In The Night (Verve Records 1961)
“Blues in the Night“ is a popular song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. The music was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for a 1941 film begun with the working title Hot Nocturne, but finally released as Blues in the Night. The song is sung in the film by William Gillespie.
Ella’s accompanied by Frank Beach, Don Fagerquist, Conrad Gozzo, Joseph Triscari (tp), Milton Bernhart, Edward Kusby, Richard Noel (tb), George Roberts (btb), Benny Carter (as), Plas Johnson (ts), Chuck Gentry (bs), Justin Gordon, Wilbur Schwartz (ww), Lou Levy (p), Herb Ellis (g), Wilfred Middlebrooks, Joe Mondragon (b), Alvin Stoller (d), Billy May (cnd, arr). Recorded in Radio Records, Hollywood on January 14, 1961. (Verve Records)
Arlen and Mercer wrote the entire score for the 1941 film Blues in the Night. One requirement was for a blues song to be sung in a jail cell. As usual with Mercer, the composer wrote the musi
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