![]() Verve also released the album as one of the first ones in SACD. All three were released as The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve. The success of Ella and Louis was replicated by Ella and Louis Again and Porgy and Bess. Though Granz produced the album, Armstrong was given final say over songs and keys. Recording began August 16, 1956, at the new Capitol Studios in Hollywood. Norman Granz, the founder of the Verve label, selected eleven ballads for Fitzgerald and Armstrong, mainly played in a slow or moderate tempo. Having previously collaborated in the late 1940s for the Decca label, this was the first of three albums that Fitzgerald and Armstrong were to record together for Verve Records, later followed by 1957's Ella and Louis Again and 1959's Porgy and Bess. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter SongbookĮlla Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart SongbookĮlla and Louis is a studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet, released in October 1956.
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