Ella Fitzgerald Collection Span: 1956-1992 Bulk: 1960-1985 English collection 176 ft. 285 boxes Ella Fitzgerald, "The First Lady of Song," was a jazz singer, a stylist, and a pop singer. Boasting an instrument of wide range, unerring pitch, and a combination of musicality and inventiveness that few, if any, other singers could match, Fitzgerald is the standard against which singers of popular songs are measured. Fitzgerald is also set apart by both the quantity and quality of her song choices—estimated at 2,309 recordings of 1,117 songs. She is also credited as being one of the progenitors of scat singing, and the recording of themed and "songbook" albums, which feature songs by single composers and/or lyricists. The Ella Fitzgerald Collection consists primarily of the extraordinary arrangements created for her by more than fifty of the finest practitioners of that art and craft. Full scores, short scores/piano-conductor scores, parts, lyric sheets, piano-vocal scores of songs arranged for and performed and/or recorded by Ella Fitzgerald. Betamax and VHS videocassettes transferred to MBRS No Ella Fitzgerald Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Fitzgerald, Ella Arrangements for the legendary jazz vocalist. Permitted, subject to PARR policies and procedures http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html African American Music Arrangers Jazz Band Music Songs Popular Music Women in the Performing Arts Fitzgerald, Ella Bregman, Buddy Bulling, Erich Byers, Billy Carson, Tee Carter, Benny DeVol, Frank Doggett, Bill Donahue, Gus Ellington, Duke Feller, Sid Flanagan, Tommy Garcia, Russ Hefti, Neal Hillery, Art Holman, Bob Hughart, Jim Jenkins, Gordon Johnson, J.J. Jones, Jimmy Lipman, Joe Mancini, Henry May, Billy Paich, Marty Pierce, Nat Previn, André Riddle, Nelson Smith, Paul T. Spence, Johnnie Weston, Paul Wilson, Gerald Performing Arts Encyclopedia scdb Music Division, Library of Congress IHAS 080813 loc.natlib.scdb.200033594