Our Love Is Here To Stay: Ella & Louis Sing Gershwin

Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 27, 1998)
• Original Release Date: January 27, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B0000047GL
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,244 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #97 in Music > Broadway & Vocalists > Classic Vocalists

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars it does not get any better than this!!, February 13, 1999

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This review is from: Our Love Is Here To Stay: Ella & Louis Sing Gershwin (Audio CD)

for any of us who think we are born to late for good music..take heart!! this cd is a must for anyone who likes music..ella is at her best and louis is the perfect partner...the new, remastered songs sound like they are singing a private concert just for you!! Their rendition of "I got plenty of nothin" is a treat for any Gershwin fan. I can not recommend this cd highly enough. I was turned on to this cd while spending a semester in Koeln Germany. (If anyone is planing a trip..i highly recomend Gonski Music at Neumarkt...the best selection of jazz cd's and they let you listen to cd's before you buy them..even if you don't buy them!! A great way to spend a rainy afternoon!)

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No One Sings Gershwin Better, June 25, 2002

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Ren (Knoxville, TN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Our Love Is Here To Stay: Ella & Louis Sing Gershwin (Audio CD)

I was quite delighted to find this album because I am a big fan of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's work together (Great interpretation of Porgy and Bess songs, and both Ella and Louis albums). I especially love when the two sing Gershwin songs, and this album is a great representative of all the classic Gershwin songs they do together. It holds a great mix of both orchestral jazz and combo jazz (with Oscar Peterson on piano). I love pretty much every song on this collection, but I think their performance of "Summertime" is scintillating. Other standouts include the cheerful "They All Laughed" and "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", the dreamy "They Can't Take That Away From Me" and "He Loves and She Loves", and the irresistibly catchy "Woman Is a Sometime Thing". All fans of Ella and Louis should check this out; you won't be disappointed. Plus it gives you a taste of other classic albums from the two legendary jazz singers who were made to work with each other.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great introduction to this fantastic duet, October 9, 2002

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Luciano Ribeiro Sobral (São Paulo, Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Our Love Is Here To Stay: Ella & Louis Sing Gershwin (Audio CD)

Ella and Louis are undoubtfully one of the greatest duets of the popular music. Many others tried to emulate them, but we'll have to wait a very long time until another couple of great singers develop the perfect chemistry showed in this records.
This album it's a collection of 16 Gershwin's songs. The best tracks are with Ella and Louis singing together with small groups or big bands, but you can find great moments of each one singing alone (as Ella in "Oh Lady Be Good"). The collection also brings some samples of the opera "Porgy and Bess". You can face this album as a test: if you like it (and it's virtually impossible dislike the music of a great composer sang by the greatest musicians), you are ready to know the other masterpieces recorded by Ella & Louis, like "Ella & Louis", "Ella & Louis Again" and "Porgy and Bess".