Digitally remastered release, including a 16 page booklet with original artwork and origial as well as updated liner notes. This 2-CD set presents the complete contents of the original album The First Lady of Song, along with all other tracks from the same sessions and several further rarely heard dates from the same period. All of the tracks showcase Ella as the main singer backed by various orchestras and instrumental groups. Among the many highlights here are Ella’s original versions of such hits as Mr. Paganini and My One and Only Love among many others. A 1947 live vocal duet with drummer (and also singer) Buddy Rich, taken from a radio broadcast and first issued on a V-disc, closes this extraordinary collection. – 1 – 1. My One and Only Love 3:21 2. The Impatient Years 2:50 3. But Not Like Mine 3:00 4. The Tender Trap 3:01 5. Solid As a Rock 3:01 6. Ive Got the World On a String 3:20 7. Sugar Foot Rag 3:05 8. Peas and Rice 3:24 9. An Empty Ballroom 3:08 10. If You Dont, I Know Who Will 2:47 11. Melancholy Me 2:54 12. Somebody Bad Stole the Wedding Bell 2:31 13. You Turned the Tables On Me 2:59 14. I Cried and Cried and Cried 2:56 15. Robbins Nest 2:35 16. Trying 3:00 17. The Greatest There is 2:16 18. My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean 2:17 19. Ellas Contribution To the Blues 2:34 20. Soldier Boy 3:01 21. A Satisfied Mind 2:35 22. Careless 2:50 23. Blue Lou 2:48 24. I Wonder What Kind of a Guy Youd Be 2:58 25. I Dont Want To Take a Chance 3:15 26. There Never Was a Baby (Like My Baby) 2:50 27. Give a Little, Get a Little 3:20 – 2 – 1. Hes My Guy 3:21 2. Moanin Low 2:43 3. Taking a Chance On Love 3:08 4. A Guy is a Guy 2:54 5. Nowhere Guy 3:09 6. Gee, But Im Glad To Know You Love Me 3:11 7. Goody Goody 2:25 8. Angel Eyes 2:57 9. Ding-Dong Boogie 3:13 10. Mr. Paganini Parts 1 & 2 5:12 11. Early Autumn 3:15 12. Preview 3:05 13. My Favorite Song 2:50 14. Walking By the River 2:30 15. I Cant Lie To Myself 2:57 16. Dont Wake Me Up 3:04 17. The Chesapeake and Ohio 2:43 18. Two Little Men In the Flying Saucer 3:24 19. Because of Rain 3:13 20. The Hot Canary 3:17 21. Even As You an I 3:33 22. Do You Really Love Me? 3:13 23. Love You Madly 3:02 24. Come On-A-My House 2:00 25. Bud-Ella (Blues Skies)(Duet W. Buddy Rich] 4:04
