Ella Fitzgerald - Things Ain't What They Used to Be

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Ella Fitzgerald: Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It)

LP: Reprise RS 6432
CDs: Warner Brothers / Reprise 2-26023 [Includes two complete albums: Things Ain't What They Used to Be and Ella (1969)] and Reprise WPCR-2334 (Japan) [Same tracks as original LP]

Tracks & Composers (Original LP Tracks)

1 Sunny (Hebb)
2 Mas Que Nada (Deane)
3 A Man and a Woman (Barouh, Keller, Lai)
4 Days of Wine and Roses (Mancini, Mercer)
5 Black Coffee (Burke, Webster)
6 Tuxedo Junction (Dash, Feyne, Hawkins, Johnson)
7 I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Strong, Whitfield)
8 Don't Dream of Anybody But Me (Hefti, Howard)
9 Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Ellington, Persons)
10 Willow Weep for Me (Ronell)
11 Manteca (Fuller, Gillespie)
12 Just When We're Falling in Love (Jacquet, Russell, Thompson)

Personnel
Bobby Bryant, Harry Edison, Paul Hubinon, Larry McGuire, Alex Rodriguez (tp); Jimmy Cleveland, Thurman Green, J.J. Johnson, Alexander Thomas, William Tole, Mike Wimberly, Britt Woodman (tb); Arthur Maebe (frh, tu); William Green, Anthony Ortega, Ernie Watts (fl, picc); Marshall Royal (fl, cl, as); Henry De Vega (as); Ray Bojorquez, Harold Land (ts); Richard Aplanalp (bars); Joe Sample (org, el-p); Victor Feldman, Bobby Hutcherson (vib); Tommy Flanagan (p); Herb Ellis (g); Ray Brown (b); Louis Bellson (d); Francisco DeSouza, Modesto Duran (cga, bgo); Gerald Wilson (arr); Ella Fitzgerald (vo)

Recording Date & Location
Autumn 1970, New York, NY

Commentary
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