IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD
Duke Ellington / Manny Kurtz / Irving Mills   1935

as rec by Billy Eckstine

also rec by-
Duke Ellington & his Orch '35
Benny Goodman & his Orch '35
Ben Pollack & his Orch '36
The Quintet Of The Hot Club Of France '37
Ella Fitzgerald w Barney Kessel '56
Sarah Vaughan w George Duvivier & Mundell Lowe '61
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane '62
Abbey Lincoln '80
Jacqui Dankworth 2003
Glenn Miller & his Orch
Sonny Stitt


In a sentimental mood,
I can see the stars coming through my room,
While your loving attitude
Is like a flame that lights the gloom.

On the wings of every kiss
Drifts a melody so strange and sweet;
In this sentimental mess
You make my paradise complete.

Rose petals seem to fall,
It's like a dream to call you mine!
My heart's a lighter thing
Since you made this night a thing divine.

In a sentimental mood,
I'm within a world so heavenly,
For I never dreamt that you'd
Be loving sentimental me,
Loving sentimental me!





(Contributed by Peter Akers - March 2009)