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]
Notable recordings
- Tahna Running - I Didn't Know About You (2002)
- Karrin Allyson - I Didn't Know About You (1993)
- June Christy - The Misty Miss Christy (1956)
- Sheila Cooper, Fritz Pauer - Tales of Love and Longing (2007)
- Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1958)
- Stacey Kent - The Tender Trap (1998)
- Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser (1966)
- Patti Page - In the Land of Hi-Fi (1956)
- Annie Ross - Skylark (1956)
- Jo Stafford - Jo + Jazz (1960)
- Mel Tormé, George Shearing - Mel and George "Do" World War II (1990)
- Sarah Vaughan - Sweet 'N' Sassy (1964), The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (1979)
- Judy Collins - Bread and Roses (1976)
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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