Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas - Re-issue of the 1960 Verve album - 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. 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.