Tracklist


Side 1


Overture: Things Ain't What They Used To Be; Sophisticated Lady; Perdido (3:35)

A1a Things Ain't What They Used To Be

A1b Sophisticated Lady

A1c Perdido

A2 I've Got To Be A Rug Cutter 2:11

A3 Music Is A Woman 1:42

A4 The Mooche 2:43

A5 Hit Me With A Hot Note And Watch Me Bounce 2:44

Love You Madly; Perdido (3:07)

A6a Love You Madly

A6b Perdido

A7 Fat And Forty (You're My Meat) 1:57

A8 It Don't Mean A Thing 3:41


Side 2


B1 Bli-Blip 2:03

B2 Cotton Tail 2:44

B3 Take The "A" Train 3:26

B4 Solitude 3:21

Don't Get Around Much Any More; I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (1:56)

B5a Don't Get Around Much Any More

B5b I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart

B6 Caravan 3:00

B7 Something To Live For 3:53

B8 Rockin' In Rhythm 2:31


Side 3


C1 In A Sentimental Mood 3:25

C2 I'm Beginning To See The Light 3:02

Satin Doll; Just Squeeze Me (3:19)

C3a Satin Doll

C3b Just Squeeze Me

C4 Dancers In Love 2:16

C5 Drop Me Off In Harlem 3:15

C6 Echoes Of Harlem 3:39

C7 I'm Just A Lucky So-And-So 2:12

C8 Hey Baby 1:52


Side 4


D1 Imagine My Frustration 2:23

D2 Kinda Dukish 2:27

I'm Checking Out Goombye, Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me (1:24)

D3a I'm Checking Out Goombye

D3b Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me

I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good; Mood Indigo (5:28)

D4a I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good

D4b Mood Indigo

D5 Sophisticated Lady 3:08

D6 It Don't Mean A Thing (Reprise) 2:26



Concept By – Donald McKayle

Conductor [Music Direction] – Mercer Ellington

Engineer – Joaquin J. Lopes

Music By – Duke Ellington

Producer – Thomas Z. Shepard

Vocals – Gregg Burge, Gregory Hines, Hinton Battle, Judith Jamison, Mercedes Ellington, P.J. Benjamin, Phyllis Hyman, Priscilla Baskerville, Terri Klausner