| Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas | ||||
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| Released | 1960 | |||
| Recorded | July 15 – August 5, 1960 | |||
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| Length | 34:00 (original 1960 release) 52:14 (2002 CD release) | |||
| Label | Verve | |||
| Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas is a 1960 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded in the summer of 1960, with a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol. The tracks are all secular Christmas seasonal songs, in contrast to her second Christmas album released in 1967.
It is Fitzgerald's only Verve complete album of Christmas tunes. Verve had issued a 7" 45rpm single in 1959, featuring "The Christmas Song" with "The Secret of Christmas" on the B-side; both were recorded with Russ Garcia and His Orchestra in September 1959. The album has been reissued several times and there have been variations to the sleeve's artwork.
- ^ "Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 491. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.