I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) is a pop and jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster , released in 1941.
background
The song was first sung on July 10, 1941 by Ivie Anderson at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles in the musical revue Jump for Joy , where the revue saw 101 performances. Other songs in the revue are Jump for Joy , Chocolate Shake, Rocks In My Bed and The Brown Skin Gal in the Calico Gown . There were a total of 101 performances of the musical at this venue.
In October 1941, the Duke Ellington Orchestra took the title for the first time, with Ivie Anderson and the soloists Ellington and Johnny Hodges ; the number reached # 13 on the US charts (Victor 27531). Just a month later, the Benny Goodman Orchestra recorded the song, with Peggy Lee as the band vocalist, who had her first hit with it. Cootie Williams took part in the recording after leaving the Ellington band the previous year. There are numerous cover versions of the song by well-known artists.
Original versions
- Ivie Anderson with Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - single (1941)
- Peggy Lee with Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - single (1941)
Selection of cover versions
vocal
- Madeline Bell - Beat Out That Rhythm (1998)
- Beryl Bryden - Bluesy Ballads (1976)
- Ann Hampton Callaway - To Ella With Love (1996)
- Cher - Bittersweet White Light (1973)
- Rosemary Clooney & Duke Ellington and his Orchestra - Blue Rose (1956)
- Yvonne De Carlo and John Towner and His Orchestra - Yvonne De Carlo Sings (1957)
- Nat King Cole and George Shearing - Nat King Cole Sings / The George Shearing Quintet Plays (1963)
- Doris Day - Love & Magic (2001)
- Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong - The Great Reunion (1963)
- Ella Fitzgerald & Her Famous Orchestra - Single (1941)
- Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 2 (1957)
- Marvin Gaye - Motown Unreleased 1965: Marvin Gaye (2016)
- Benny Goodman - single (1941)
- Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra - Memories of Ellington (1954)
- Billie Holiday - A Day in the Life of Billie Holiday (1975)
- Joe Jackson with Sue Hadjopoulos - The Duke (2012)
- Etta James - Losers Weepers (1970)
- Molly Johnson - Lucky (2008)
- Stacey Kent - The Boy Next Door (2003)
- Dayna Kurtz with Norah Jones - Beautiful Yesterday (2004)
- Julie London - For the Night People (1966)
- Jane Monheit - Never Never Land (2000)
- Mark Murphy - Memories of You - Remembering Joe Williams (2003)
- Lou Rawls - Live! (1966)
- Della Reese - What Do You Know About Love? (1959)
- Archie Shepp - For Losers (1970)
- Carly Simon - Torch (1981)
- Nina Simone - Nina Simone Sings Ellington! (1962)
- Frank Sinatra - A Swingin 'Affair! (1957)
- Donna Summer - Live and More (1978)
- Toni Tennille - More Than You Know (1984)
- Sarah Vaughan - Duke Ellington - Song Book Two (1980)
- Dinah Washington - I Concentrate on You (1960)
Instrumental
- Charlie Byrd Trio with Special Guest Scott Hamilton - It's a Wonderful World (1988)
- Donald Byrd - Mustang (1964)
- Harry Carney - Harry Carney With Strings (1955)
- Bill Evans - New Jazz Conceptions (1956)
- Red Garland Quintet featuring John Coltrane and Donald Byrd - Soul Junction (1960)
- Erroll Garner and His Trio - The One and Only Erroll Garner and His Trio (1960)
- Earl Grant - Just One More Time and Other Instrumental Favorites (1964)
- Keith Jarrett - The Melody at Night, With You (1999)
- Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk Plays the Music of Duke Ellington (1955)
- The Oscar Peterson Trio - Night Train (1963)
Further
- Al Aarons - Al Aarons & the LA Jazz Caravan (2002)
- Count Basie - Back with Basie (1962)
- Lena Horne - Jazz Master (1977)
- Ahmad Jamal - Saturday Morning: La Buissonne Studio Sessions (2013)
- Stan Kenton - The Complete Capitol Studio Recordings of Stan Kenton 1943-1947 (1995)
- Ben Webster - For the Guv'nor (Tribute to Duke Ellington) (1969)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good). from jazzstandards.com, accessed February 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Jessie Carney Smith: Notable Black American Women . VNR AG, 1996, ISBN 0-8103-9177-5 , p. 72 ( books.google.com ).
- ↑ David A. Jasen: Tin Pan Alley. An encyclopedia of the golden age of American song . Taylor & Francis, 2003, ISBN 0-415-93877-5 , pp. 123 ( books.google.com ).