Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book 759-2 All Tracks composed by George Gershwin and all lyrics written by Ira Gershwin, unless otherwise indicated. Disc One Disc Two Disc Three Disc Four - Tracks 3 to 16 are Alternate Takes and Remixes String section Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book is a box set by American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald that contains songs by George and Ira Gershwin with arrangements by Nelson Riddle. Fifty-nine songs were recorded in the span of eight months in 1959. Fitzgerald's recording of "But Not for Me" won
Ira Chernus Ira Chernus Ira Chernus (born October 29, 1946) is a journalist, author, and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his Ph.D. in Religion from Temple University, specializing in the history of rabbinic Judaism. His academic writing now focuses on the foreign policy of US presidents. He has published books on Dwight Eisenhower and George W. Bush and is currently writing a book on Franklin D. Roosevelt. As a journalist, he has written extensively on peace, war, foreign policy, and nationalism in the United States, as well as the Israel-Palestine conflict and U.S. Middle East