title: We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song
text: # We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song
  
  We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song is a 2007 tribute album to Ella Fitzgerald produced by Phil Ramone for Verve Records, released to mark the 90th anniversary of her birth. The "all-star" list of featured vocalists is backed for most part by an orchestra led by Rob Mounsey. The album contains the first release of a duet of Ella Fitzgerald and Stevie Wonder, who joined her on stage with her small band at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1977.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (Van Alexander, Ella Fitzgerald)
  * "Lullaby of Birdland" (George Shearing, George David Weiss)
  * "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
  * "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Fabian Andre, Gus Kahn, Wilbur Schwandt)
  * "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)" (Sam Coslow)
  * "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
  * "Reaching for the Moon" (Irving Berlin)
  * "Blues in the Night" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
  * "Miss Otis Regrets" (Cole Porter)
  * "Someone to Watch over Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin)
  * "Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell)
  * "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis)
  * "Too Close for Comfort" (Jerry Bock, George David Weiss, Larry Holofcener)
  * "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (recorded live in New Orleans, 1977) (Stevie Wonder)
  * "Airmail Special" (Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Mundy)
  
  ## Personnel
  
  ### Featured vocalists and instrumentalists
  
  * Natalie Cole with Terry Trotter, piano
  * Chaka Khan with Tony Kadleck, trumpet
  * Queen Latifah
  * Diana Krall with Hank Jones, both on piano
  * Natalie Cole and Chaka Khan
  * Dianne Reeves
  * Lizz Wright with Regina Carter, violin, and Russell Malone, guitar
  * Ledisi
  * Linda Ronstadt
  * Gladys Knight
  * Etta James
  * k.d. lang with Tom Scott, tenor saxophone
  * Michael Bublé
  * Ella Fitzgerald joined by Stevie Wonder on vocal and piano
  * Nikki Yanofsky
  * Orchestra on tracks # 1–8, 11 and 12 was arranged and conducted by Rob Mounsey;
  * "Someone to Watch over Me" (# 10) was arranged and conducted by Billy Childs;
  * "Too Close for Comfort" (# 13) arranged by Billy Childs and conducted by Rob Mounsey;
  * "Miss Otis Regrets" (# 9) sung by Linda Ronstadt with string trio and piano arranged by pianist Alan Broadbent, and produced, recorded and mixed by George Massenburg and co-produced by John Boylan.
  * The bonus track "Airmail Special" (# 15) was arranged for a jazz quintet and conducted by double bassist John Clayton and produced by Tommy LiPuma.
  * On tracks # 5, 6, 12 and 13 a string section is added to the big band.
  * The Australian edition of the album added another bonus track, an interpretation of "Cotton Tail" sung by Dee Dee Bridgewater taken from her own tribute album Dear Ella (Verve, 1997).
  