First Lady of Song

Notes

Another budget from the late Prism, drawning from the Decca vaults on which the copyrights are expired in Europe.

Issues

Investigate 2000-04-12 501429356124

Temporary research notes

#14 likely:
Date: 8 October 1945
Location: New York
Label: Decca Records
Ella Fitzgerald (vc), Louis Jordan (vc, as, cnd, arr), Aaron Izenhall (tp), Josh Jackson (ts), Harry Dial (mcs), Vic Lourie (cv), Wild Bill Davis (p), Carl Hogan (g), Jesse "Po" Simpkins (b), Eddie Byrd (d)
a. 73073-A Stone Cold Dead In De Market - 02:38 (Jon Hendricks)
b. 73074-A Petootie Pie - 02:32 (Frank Paparelli, Raymond Leveen, Lorenzo Pack)
Both titles on: - Decca Records 78: 23546 - Stone Cold Dead In De Market / Petootie Pie (1945)
- Classics Records CD: 998 - The Chronological Ella Fitzgerald - 1945 - 1947 (1998)
Omit Harry Dial (mcs) on b. Omit Vic Lourie (cv) on b.

#9, #20:
Date: 26 February 1945
Location: New York
Label: Decca Records
Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Fuqua, Orville "Happy" Jones, Bill Kenny, Ivory Watson (vc), Unknown Studio Orchestra (bd)
2746-A I'm Beginning To See The Light - 02:41 (Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry Hagg James)
Decca Records 78: 23399 - I'm Beginning To See The Light / That's The Way It Is (1945)
CID 45 EP: EUS 100.502 - Ella Fitzgerald (1954)
Classics Records CD: 998 - The Chronological Ella Fitzgerald - 1945 - 1947 (1998)
72747-A That's The Way It Is - 03:15 (Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer)
Decca Records 78: 23399 - I'm Beginning To See The Light / That's The Way It Is (1945)
Classics Records CD: 998 - The Chronological Ella Fitzgerald - 1945 - 1947 (1998)

#23:
Date: 30 August 1944
Location: New York
Label: Decca Records
Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Fuqua, Orville "Happy" Jones, Bill Kenny, Ivory Watson (vc), Unknown Studio Orchestra (bd)
72370-A Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - 03:06 (Doris Fisher, Allan Roberts)
*** (not in this comp) 72371-A I'm Making Believe - 03:09 (James Monaco, Mack Gordon)
Both titles on: - Decca Records 78: 23356 - Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall / I'm Making Believe (1944)
- CID 45 EP: EUS 100.502 - Ella Fitzgerald (1954)

#24:
Date: 3 November 1943
Location: New York
Label: Decca Records
Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Fuqua, Orville "Happy" Jones, Bill Kenny, Howard McGhee, Ivory Watson (vc), Bill Doggett (p), Bernie Mackey (g), Bob Haggart (b), Johnny Blowers (d)
71482-A Cow Cow Boogie - 02:52 (Benny Carter, Don Raye, Gene DePaul)
Decca Records 78: 18587 - When My Sugar Walks Down The Street / Cow Cow Boogie (1943)
CID 45 EP: EUS 100.502 - Ella Fitzgerald (1954)

#24 likely:
Date: 28 April 1949
Location: New York
Label: Decca Records
Ella Fitzgerald (vc), Louis Jordan (vc, as), Aaron Izenhall, Bob Mitchell, Harold Mitchell (tp), Josh Jackson (ts), Bill Doggett (p), James "Ham" Jackson (g), Billy Hadnott (b), Joe Morris (d)
b. 74866-B Baby, It's Cold Outside - 02:41 (Frank Loesser)
Decca Records 78: 24644 - Baby It's Cold Outside / Don't Cry, Cry Baby (1949)
Classics Records CD: 1153 - The Chronological Ella Fitzgerald - 1949 (1999)