Verve Records · in the Kissa Kissa racks
Sings The Rodgers And Hart Song Book Volume 1
| Recorded | Aug 27-31, 1956 |
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| Label | Verve Records |
| Released | 1956 |
| Discogs | master 398276 |
The record
Rodgers and Hart's melodic sophistication gets the Songbook treatment here, Fitzgerald's phrasing finding sly humor in lines other singers might play straight. One installment in Verve's larger campaign to treat pop standards as serious repertoire.
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 16 pressings on file.
| 1959 | Verve Records · MGV-4022 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Hollywood Pressing earliest on file · deep groove |
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| 1959 | Verve Records · MGV-4022 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Hollywood Pressing · deep groove |
| 1959 | Verve Records — MONO |
| 1959 | Verve Records · MGV-4022 — Vinyl, LP |
| 1959 | Verve Records · MG V-4022 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
| 1959 | Verve Records · MVS-6009 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| 1959 | Verve Records · QCLP 12037 — Vinyl, LP, Album |
| 1959 | Verve Records · MGV 4022-1 — Vinyl, LP |
| 1959 | Verve Records · MGV-4022 — Vinyl, LP |
| 1959 | Verve Records · MGV-4022 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
| 1959 | Verve Records · MVS-6009A — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Long Playing Microgroove |
| 1959 | Verve Records · MGV 4022 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
| 1960 | Verve Records · MG VS-6009 — Vinyl, LP, Stereo |
| 2010 | Original Recordings Group · ORG 055 — Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Stereo, 180 Gram |