(LP) Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas (Deluxe Edition) [2LP]

November 8th, 2024

Deluxe Edition Standard Black Heavyweight 2LP

Experience the ultimate holiday collection from the First Lady of Song! This expanded edition of Ella Fitzgerald's classic 1960 album Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas features a second LP with six tracks making their vinyl debut. For the first time, all of Ella's holiday recordings for Verve Records and Decca Records are together on one collection. Also included is an essay from journalist Will Friedwald and a sheet a collectable cut-out ornaments. As Ella herself once said, "the only thing better than singing is more singing," and the only thing better than the original Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas is the new, deluxe edition!

TRACKLIST:

Side A:

1. Jingle Bells
2. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
3. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
4. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
5. Sleigh Ride
6. The Christmas Song

Side B:

1. Good Morning Blues
2. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
3. Winter Wonderland
4. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
5. Frosty the Snowman
6. White Christmas

Side C:

1. The Secret of Christmas
2. We Three Kings of Orient Are / O Little Town of Bethlehem
3. Christmas Island
4. The Christmas Song - Alternative Take
5. White Christmas – Alternative Take
6. Frosty the Snowman – Alternative Take

Side D:

1. Holiday in Harlem
2. Baby It's Cold Outside (feat. Louis Jordan)
3. Santa Claus Got Stuck (In My Chimney)
4. Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You (feat. Louis Armstrong)
5. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (feat. Louis Armstrong)
6. The Christmas Song – Single Version