I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So

"I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So" is a 1945 song composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics written by Mack David.[1]

Notable recordings

Al Hibbler & Duke Ellington - recorded for RCA Victor (catalog No. 20-1799) on November 26, 1945[2] (Ellington, Hodges, Lawrence brown, soloists)
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Shirley Scott - The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook Volume 3 (1958).
Billy Eckstine & Quincy Jones on the album At Basin Street East (1961) as part of a Duke Ellington medley.
Annie Ross - included in her album A Gasser! (1960).[3]
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington - Together for the First Time (1961)
Ella Fitzgerald - she first recorded it for Decca Records (catalog No. 18814) in New York on Feb 21, 1946.[4] She sang it at Carnegie Hall in 1949 and it was included in "Jazz at the Philharmonic, The Ella Fitzgerald Set" (Verve/Polygram)" (1949).[5] A later recording was included in Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1958).
Kenny Burrell - Soul Call (1964)
Sarah Vaughan - The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (1979)
Mose Allison - Middle Class White Boy (1982).[6]
Tony Bennett - recorded the song on three occasions, first in 1957 for his album Tony. He included it in his Carnegie Hall concert in 1962 and finally in the album A Tribute to Duke (1977)
Harry "Sweets" Edison & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Jazz at the Philharmonic (1983).[7]
Diana Krall - for her album Stepping Out (1993).
Stacey Kent - included in the album Only Trust Your Heart (2000).[8]

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