ELLA FITZEGERALD - BEWITCHED, BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED

BEWITCHED, BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED

ELLA FITZEGERALD

SONGWRITERS: LORENZ HART & RICHARD RODGERS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ELLA FITZGERAL CANTA O LIVRO DE CANÇÕES DE RODGERS & HART

LABEL: VERVE RECOPRDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1958

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella. She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.

After a tumultuous adolescence, Fitzgerald found stability in musical success with the Chick Webb Orchestra, performing across the country but most often associated with the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. Her rendition of the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" helped boost both her and Webb to national fame. After taking over the band when Webb died, Fitzgerald left it behind in 1942 to start her solo career.

Her manager was Moe Gale, co-founder of the Savoy, until she turned the rest of her career over to Norman Granz, who founded Verve Records to produce new records by Fitzgerald. With Verve she recorded some of her more widely noted works, particularly her interpretations of the Great American Songbook.

While Fitzgerald appeared in movies and as a guest on popular television shows in the second half of the twentieth century, her musical collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and The Ink Spots were some of her most notable acts outside of her solo career. These partnerships produced some of her best-known songs such as "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Cheek to Cheek", "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall", and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)".

In 1993, after a career of nearly 60 years, she gave her last public performance. Three years later, she died at the age of 79 after years of declining health. Her accolades included fourteen Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book é um álbum de estúdio de 1956dacantora de jazz americana Ella Fitzgerald , com uma orquestra de estúdio dirigida e arranjada por Buddy Bregman , com foco nas canções de Richard Rodgers e Lorenz Hart .

Este álbum foi incluído no Grammy Hall of Fame em 1999, que é um prêmio Grammy especial estabelecido em 1973 para homenagear gravações que tenham pelo menos 25 anos de idade e que tenham "significado qualitativo ou histórico". 

Em 2000, foi eleito o número 642 em Colin Larkin 's All Time Top 1000 Albums .

After one whole quart of brandy

Like a daisy, I'm awake

With no bromo-seltzer handy

I don't even shake

Men are not a new sensation

I've done pretty well I think

But this half-pint imitation

Put me on the blink

I'm wild again, beguiled again

A simpering, whimpering child again

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I

Couldn't sleep and wouldn't sleep

When love came and told me, I shouldn't sleep

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I

Lost my heart, but what of it?

He is cold I agree

He can laugh, but I love it

Although the laugh's on me

I'll sing to him, each spring to him

And long for the day when I'll cling to him

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I

He's a fool, and don't I know it?

But a fool can have his charms

I'm in love and don't I show it

Like a babe in arms

Love's the same old sad sensation

Lately I've not slept a wink

Since this half-pint imitation

Put me on the blink

I've sinned a lot, I'm mean a lot

But I'm like sweet seventeen a lot

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I

I'll sing to him, each spring to him

And worship the trousers that cling to him

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I

When he talks, he is seeking

Words to get, off his chest

Horizontally speaking, he's at his very best

Vexed again, perplexed again

Thank god, I can be oversexed again

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I

Wise at last, my eyes at last

Are cutting you down to your size at last

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered no more

Burned a lot, but learned a lot

And now you are broke, so you earned a lot

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered no more

Couldn't eat, was dispeptic

Life was so hard to bear

Now my heart's antiseptic

Since you moved out of there

Romance, finis

Your chance, finis

Those ants that invaded my pants, finis

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered no more.