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It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

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The song became famous, Ellington wrote, "as the expression of a sentiment which prevailed among jazz musicians at the time". It contains one of the earliest uses in popular music of the term "
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characterized it as "now legendary" and "a prophetic piece and a prophetic title". In 2008, Ellington's 1932 recording of the song was inducted into the
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The music was composed and arranged by Ellington in August 1931 during intermissions at the Lincoln Tavern in
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radio program, which plays Monk's version as background accompaniment whenever the
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Studio Sessions, 1957, 1965, 1966, 1967, San Francisco, Chicago, New York
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Sample of "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" with
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The song was first recorded by Ellington and his orchestra for
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at the time; Miley died the year the song was released.
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It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (album)
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For the Duke Ellington & Teresa Brewer album, see
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Index

It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (album)
It Don't Mean a Thing (album)
Song
Duke Ellington
Genre
Jazz
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)
Irving Mills
Duke Ellington
Irving Mills
jazz standard
Gunther Schuller
Grammy Hall of Fame
Chicago
Irving Mills
Bubber Miley
tuberculosis
Brunswick Records
Ivie Anderson
Joe Nanton
Johnny Hodges
Ray Nance
swing
"It Don't Mean a Thing" (1932) excerpt
scat singing
The Boswell Sisters
media help
The Mills Brothers
The Boswell Sisters

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