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Edward Kennedy Ellington
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Edward Kennedy Ellington
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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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