I Didn't Know About You

"I Didn't Know About You" is a 1944 song composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics written by Bob Russell.^[1]

Alec Wilder wrote that it "works well as a song in [the] series of Ellington instrumentals with Russell lyrics. The main strain is the most melodic, vocally, of the three Russell wrote lyrics for."^[2]

Notable recordings

June Christy - The Misty Miss Christy (1956)
Patti Page - In the Land of Hi-Fi (1956)
Annie Ross - Skylark (1956)
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1958)
Jo Stafford - Jo + Jazz (1960)
Sarah Vaughan - Sweet 'N' Sassy (1964), The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (1979)
Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser (1966)
Sylvia Syms - Lovingly (1976)
Judy Collins - Bread and Roses (1976)
Mel Tormé, George Shearing - Mel and George "Do" World War II (1990)
Karrin Allyson - I Didn't Know About You (1993)
Stacey Kent - The Tender Trap (1998)
Tahna Running - I Didn't Know About You (2002)
Sheila Cooper, Fritz Pauer - Tales of Love and Longing (2007)

Notes

↑ Bob Russell Biography. Listen to Classical Music by Bob Russell
↑ Wilder, Alec. American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972), 240.

Duke Ellington

Studio albums

Live albums

Collaborations

with Alice Babs	Serenade to Sweden

with Count Basie	First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

with Teresa Brewer	It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

with Rosemary Clooney	Blue Rose

with John Coltrane	Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

with Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook Ella at Duke's Place The Stockholm Concert, 1966 Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur

with Coleman Hawkins	Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins

with Frank Sinatra	Francis A. & Edward K.

Compositions

Billy Strayhorn compositions associated with Ellington	"Take the "A" Train" "Lush Life" "Chelsea Bridge" "Something to Live For" "Satin Doll" "Blood Count"

Juan Tizol compositions associated with Ellington	"Caravan" "Perdido"

Orchestra
members

Filmography

Discography

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