Ella Returns to Berlin

Ella Returns to Berlin is a 1961 (see 1961 in music) live album by Ella Fitzgerald, with a trio led by the pianist Lou Levy, and also featuring the Oscar Peterson trio.

The album's title refers to Fitzgerald's more famous concert in Berlin a year earlier (Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife), which had included her famous rendition of "Mack the Knife", which earned her a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Performance (Single).

Like Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert, this concert was first released thirty years after it was originally recorded, in 1991.

Track listing
For the 1991 Verve-PolyGram CD Reissue, Verve-PolyGram 837 758-2


 * 1) "Introductions and Announcements" – 1:20
 * 2) "Give Me the Simple Life" (Rube Bloom, Harry Ruby) – 2:03
 * 3) "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 3:46
 * 4) "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China" (Frank Loesser) – 2:21
 * 5) Medley: "Why Was I Born?"/"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"/"People Will Say We're in Love" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II), (Kern, Hammerstein)/ (Richard Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 5:37
 * 6) "Introduction" – 0:11
 * 7) "You're Driving Me Crazy" (Walter Donaldson) – 3:24
 * 8) "Rock It for Me" (Sue Werner, Kay Werner) – 3:24
 * 9) "Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 2:55
 * 10) "Anything Goes" (Cole Porter) – 2:34
 * 11) "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 3:44
 * 12) "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) – 2:57
 * 13) "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) – 2:02
 * 14) "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)" (Sam Coslow) – 4:45
 * 15) "Mack the Knife" (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 3:30
 * 16) "Fanfare for Ella" – 0:22
 * 17) "'Round Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 3:31
 * 18) "Joe Williams' Blues" (Ella Fitzgerald) – 5:27
 * 19) "Fanfare for Ella" – 0:53
 * 20) "This Can't Be Love" (Lorenz Hart, Rodgers) – 4:30
 * 21) "Closing Announcements by Norman Granz" – 0:54

Personnel
Recorded February 11, 1961, Berlin, Germany:

Track 20 features; The Oscar Peterson Trio
 * Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals
 * Lou Levy - Piano
 * Wilfred Middlebrooks - Bass
 * Gus Johnson - Drums
 * Herb Ellis - Guitar
 * Oscar Peterson - Piano
 * Ray Brown - Bass
 * Ed Thigpen - Drums