On The Sunny Side Of The Street

Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B0000046SO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,447 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Honeysuckle Rose

2. 'Deed I Do

3. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall

4. Them There Eyes

5. Dream A Little Dream Of Me

6. Tea For Two

7. Satin Doll

8. I'm Beginning To See The Light

9. Shiny Stockings

10. My Last Affair

11. Ain't Misbehavin'

12. On The Sunny Side Of The Street

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really, really fun, February 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: On The Sunny Side Of The Street (Audio CD)

If you like Ella, and you like Basie, you love this CD. Big sound, huge swing. I dare you not to sing and dance around the house. "Them There Eyes" never sounded better.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Basie's mediocre performance, January 21, 2009

By 

Nikica Gilic - See all my reviews

This review is from: On the Sunny Side of the Street (Audio CD)

I believe that this CD gives songs from 1970. album "High Voltage".

In an average or good band's book this album would merit 4 stars, but when I think of the things I've heard Basie's orchestra do - this Chico O'Farrell arranged collection (with one Eric Dixon arrangement - track 10) is bland and mediocre... Oh, sure, I've carefully avoided Basie's album on Bond theme's and Beatles' songs, but I have heard and seen the band following singers (Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr.), often with someone else on piano and young Quincey Jones waving the baton... Basie is here on these tracks but it could have been Nat Pierce or anyone else from the effect he got.

Eddie Lockjaw Davis is maybe the strongest soloist of the album, but he doesn't stand out... If this is high voltage, I'm Nat Hentoff.
The musicians are otherwise fine and could do better if allowed or inspired. Maybe all these standards killed their will to swing too hard?

Two line-ups (taken from the extremely pure/basic data on the "booklet".

1: 1969 line-up: Charlie Fowlkes, Marshal Royal, Bobby Plater, E. Davis - sax, Eric Dixon- sax and fl., M. F. Wanzo, Grover Mitchell, Bill Hughes - tb, Gene Coe, Oscar Brashear, Wayman Reed, Sonny Cohn - tp, F. Green .-g, Norman Keenan-b, Harold Jones- dm

2. 1970 line-up: Cecil Payne, E. Davis, Bill Adkins, Jerry Dodgion - sax, E. Dixon - sax and fl, Buddy Morrow, Frank Hooks, G. Mitchell, B. Hughes-tb, Joe Newman, G. Goe, George Cohn, W. Reed - tp, F. Green .g, George Duvivier -b, H. Jones -dm