Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book
Studio album by
Released1964
RecordedOctober 19–21, 1964
StudioRadio Recorders (Los Angeles)
GenreJazz
Length43:58
LabelVerve Records
ProducerNorman Granz
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Hello, Dolly!
(1964)
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book
(1964)
Ella at Juan-Les-Pins
(1964)
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Encyclopedia of Popular Music
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book is a 1964 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, focusing on the songs of Johnny Mercer. It was recorded in Los Angeles, California. This is Fitzgerald's fifth and final collaboration with Riddle during her years on the Verve label. It is also the last of the "Song Book" series of LPs dedicated to great American songwriters, which had begun in 1956 with Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book.