Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook by Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book is a box set by American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald that contains songs by George and Ira Gershwin with arrangements by Nelson Riddle. Fifty-nine songs were recorded in the span of eight months in 1959.Fitzgerald's recording of "But Not for Me" won the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female.Ira Gershwin said, "I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them".This collection is one of the eight comprising what is possibly Ella Fitzgerald's greatest musical legacy: Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Complete American Songbook in which she recorded with top arrangers and musicians well-known and obscure tracks by Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer. In 2000 it was voted number 473 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.