Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Sings Gershwin (1950) [VINYL] (4x7inx45rpm album) - 24-bit/96kHz plus CD-compatible format

An incredible find from eBay. In great shape (save 2 sides). If you like the noise from a needle being dragged across vinyl, you'll love this. Oh, and Ella sounds great, too.

From the bowels of eBay comes this lovely 7" 45 rpm album. My sniper paid off. It's an actual box set of four 7" disks that were in as fine a condition as you could expect. They looked unplayed. Alas, disk 4 had an ugly scratch on each side. You'll enjoy the sound of the vinyl for sure on each of these. Lots of pops and buzzes that appeared on each rip attempt. So I left almost everything in.


Presented for historical purposes only. Definitely not for headphones.


From wikipedia:
"Ella Sings Gershwin is a 1950 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the pianist Ellis Larkins. Issued on DL5300 on the Decca label, this was Fitzgerald's first album. Originally on 10" vinyl, which preceded album releases on 12" vinyl, it featured eight tracks. The complete album was combined with Fitzgerald's 1954 album Songs in a Mellow Mood and re-issued on CD in 1994 by MCA Records on the GRP Jazz label under the title Pure Ella. Fitzgerald released two other albums of all Gershwin material, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959) and Nice Work If You Can Get It (1983)."


From allmuisc:
Review by Scott Yanow
"Ella Fitzgerald's very first LP (a ten-inch) was this gem. In duets with pianist Ellis Larkins, eight Gershwin songs are given intimate and lightly swinging treatment and the results are quite memorable with the singer heard at her most expressive. Fortunately all of this music has since been reissued on CD by GRP as part of Pure Ella."




1A - Someone To Watch Over Me.flac
1B - My One And Only One.flac
2A - But Not For Me.flac
2B - Looking For A Boy.flac
3A - I've Got A Crush On You.flac
3B - How Long Has This Been Going On.flac
4A - Maybe.flac
4B - Soon.flac




LP > Rega P1 with Ortofon Super 30 > TC-750LC > E-Mu 0202 > Adobe Audition 3 (AA) @ 96kHz 32bit float > Manual click removal in AA > Click Repair set @ 20 > Equalizer (from the ClickRepair guy) used to combine into mono) > AA used to split tracks, fade in/out, and for manual click removal > RX Advanced to resample > RX Advanced to dither MBIT+ > TLH to FLAC and sector align (16bit, pad) > MP3 Tagger to edit tags.

"16bit" = 16bit at 44.1kHz
"24bit" = 24bit at 96kHz

No music was harmed in the making of this vinyl rip.