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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Piano
Andrew Ford
Andrew Ford
Trumpet
Billy Strayhorn
Billy Strayhorn
Piano
Cat Anderson
Cat Anderson
Trumpet
Jimmy Hamilton
Jimmy Hamilton
Saxophone
Johnny Hodges
Johnny Hodges
Saxophone
Lawrence Brown
Lawrence Brown
Trombone
Mercer Ellington
Mercer Ellington
Horn
Nelson Williams
Nelson Williams
Trumpet
Paul Gonsalves
Paul Gonsalves
Saxophone
Quentin Jackson
Quentin Jackson
Trombone
Ray Nance
Ray Nance
Trumpet
Russell Procope
Russell Procope
Saxophone
Shorty Baker
Shorty Baker
Trumpet
Sonny Greer
Sonny Greer
Drums
Tyree Glenn
Tyree Glenn
Trombone
Wendell Marshall
Wendell Marshall
Bass
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Fred Plaut
Fred Plaut
Engineer
Harold Chapman
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
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