ELLA FITZGERALD
ELLA FITZGERALD - LIVE IN EAST BERLIN 1967 - DOUBLE UHQCD
DOUBLE UHQCD
ELLA FITZGERALD
LIVE IN EAST BERLIN 1967
38,00€26,00€
RECORD 1
- On the Sunny Side of the Street*
- Don't Be That Way
- You've Changed
- Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
- These Boots Are Made for Walking
- Here's That Rainy Day
- Summertime
- It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
- Só Danço Samba (Jazz Samba)
RECORD 2
- Midnight Sun
- Goin' Out of My Head*
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- Misty
- 'S Wonderful
- St. Louis Blues
- How High the Moon
- A-Tisket, A-Tasket*
- Hello, Dolly!*
“Ella Fitzgerald – As in the good old days at the Savoy!”
It all began with a coincidence and complicity between Ronald Trisch, the head of the East German music agency, and Horst Lippmann, the West Berlin representative of major American artists.
In January 1967, Ella Fitzgerald was on a European tour with Duke Ellington and his orchestra. After a concert in West Berlin, January 25 was a day off. They jumped at the chance to organize a somewhat adventurous "detour" for Ella to East Berlin. At 11 p.m. on Wednesday evening, 3,000 people flocked to the Friedrichstadt Palace. This appearance in East Berlin would be the only one of her career...
This was a perilous affair. Karlheinz Drechsel, one of the organizers, and father of Ulf Drechsel, our correspondent in Germany, describes in his Memoirs, an excessively nervous Ella when, after crossing Check Point Charlie, she finds herself backstage.
For almost an hour and a half, she treated the audience to some twenty tracks from the other side of the wall, alternating timeless standards with the hits of the moment, from the Beatles to Nancy Sinatra...
Late that night, before getting back into her car, heading for West Berlin, exhausted but drunk with happiness, she confesses to Karlheinz Drechsel: "It was just like the good old days at the Savoy!"
Ella Fitzgerald, Vocals
Jimmy Jones, Piano
Bob Cranshaw Bass
Sam Woodyard, Drums
Ref.: TLR-2304050
Recorded at Fredrichstadt-Palast, East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, on 25.1.1967
STEREO ℗ 1967 DRA, *MONO ℗ 1967 Private Collection
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