I Didn't Know About You
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"I Didn't Know About You" is a 1944 song composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics written by Bob Russell.[1]
Alec Wilder wrote that it "works well as a song in [the] series of Ellington instrumentals with Russell lyrics. The main strain is the most melodic, vocally, of the three Russell wrote lyrics for."[2]
[edit] Notable recordings
- Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1958)
- Mel Tormé, George Shearing - Mel and George "Do" World War II (1990)
- Sarah Vaughan - The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (1979)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Bob Russell Biography. Listen to Classical Music by Bob Russell
- ^ Wilder, Alec. American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972), 240.
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