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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Duke Ellington
Piano
Andrew Ford
Trumpet
Billy Strayhorn
Piano
Cat Anderson
Trumpet
Jimmy Hamilton
Saxophone
Johnny Hodges
Saxophone
Lawrence Brown
Trombone
Mercer Ellington
Horn
Nelson Williams
Trumpet
Paul Gonsalves
Saxophone
Quentin Jackson
Trombone
Ray Nance
Trumpet
Russell Procope
Saxophone
Shorty Baker
Trumpet
Sonny Greer
Drums
Tyree Glenn
Trombone
Wendell Marshall
Bass
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Duke Ellington
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Fred Plaut
Engineer
Harold Chapman
Engineer
Lyrics
Thank you
And now, our-
Possibly, our most ambitious work of this season
The Tattooed Bride
The appropriate title I think would be better, the uh
The Honeymoon Weekend of The Tattooed Bride
But the most unusual thing about this particular tattooed bride
Is the fact, is the way she's tattooed
I mean, rather than to have
Rather than having an assortment or variety of pictures
Of diagrams and so forth
She has a continuous repetition of the same
Sort of a zig-zaggy looking figure
And this many many times until they all run into
And they look like either M's or W's
And of course, you know, an M or W has four strokes
And we tried to make four notes out of it
So as to turn it over from the optical to the aural
Is that right? Technically
Anyway, from sight to sound
And we took a pencil and wrote this M or the W
And we got these four sounds
Like
Well, you'll now hear the development but that is the theme
Jimmy Hamilton
Writer(s): Duke Ellington
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