Ella Returns to Berlin is a 1961 (see 1961 in music) live album by Ella Fitzgerald, with a trio led by the pianist Lou Levy, and also featuring the Oscar Peterson trio.
The album's title refers to Fitzgerald's more famous concert in Berlin a year earlier (Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife), which had included her famous rendition of "Mack the Knife", which earned her a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Performance (Single).
Like Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert, this concert was first released thirty years after it was originally recorded, in 1991.
Track listing For the 1991 Verve-PolyGram CD Reissue, Verve-PolyGram 837 758-2
"Introductions and Announcements" – 1:20 "Give Me the Simple Life" (Rube Bloom, Harry Ruby) – 2:03 "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 3:46 "On a Slow Boat to China" (Frank Loesser) – 2:21 Medley: "Why Was I Born?"/"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"/"People Will Say We're in Love" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II), (Kern, Hammerstein)/ (Richard Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 5:37 "Introduction" – 0:11 "You're Driving Me Crazy" (Walter Donaldson) – 3:24 "Rock It for Me" (Sue Werner, Kay Werner) – 3:24 "Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 2:55 "Anything Goes" (Cole Porter) – 2:34 "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 3:44 "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) – 2:57 "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) – 2:02 "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)" (Sam Coslow) – 4:45 "Mack the Knife" (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 3:30 "Fanfare for Ella" – 0:22 "'Round Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 3:31 "Joe Williams' Blues" (Ella Fitzgerald) – 5:27 "Fanfare for Ella" – 0:53 "This Can't Be Love" (Lorenz Hart, Rodgers) – 4:30 "Closing Announcements by Norman Granz" – 0:54
Personnel Recorded February 11, 1961, Berlin, Germany:
Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals Lou Levy - Piano Wilfred Middlebrooks - Bass Gus Johnson - Drums Herb Ellis - Guitar Track 20 features; The Oscar Peterson Trio Oscar Peterson - Piano Ray Brown - Bass Ed Thigpen - Drums
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