NEVER NO LAMENT

Created on 02/03/2006
Latest update on 21/03/2024

Artist: Duke Ellington Orch.
Author: Duke Ellington
Label: Victor
Year: 1940

As instrumental; nice solo work by Lawrence Brown (trombone), Johnny Hodges (altsax) and Cootie Williams (trumpet). Later with Bob Russell lyrics a big hit for The Ink Spots and Glen Gray.

Covers:

1943:

Ink Spots [n°2 US as Don't Get Around Much Anymore]

1943:

Glen Gray [idem; top 10 US]

1943:

Duke Ellington [idem; top 10 US]

1952:

Milt Jackson [idem]

1955:

Tony Bennett [idem]

1958:

Bill Doggett

1958:

Mose Allison

1961:

Louis Armstrong [with Duke]

1961:

B.B. King [with the Duke's orchestra]

1961:

Etta James

1963:

Bobby Darin

1964:

Belmonts

1967:

Tony Bennett [as Don't Get Around Much Anymore and in '11 with Michael Bublé]

1978:

Willie Nelson

1987:

Paul McCartney

1989:

Harry Connick Jr. [in film When Harry Met Sally]

1991:

Natalie Cole

1995:

Electric Kings

1999:

Clarence Gatemouth Brown

2000:

Dr. John

2003:

Rod Stewart

2022:

Michael Bublé [all as Don't Get Around Much Anymore]

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