SHINY STOCKINGS
(Frank Foster)
Ella Fitzgerald


Also recorded by:
Monty Alexander, Ray Anthony, Dave Bailey, 
Baltic Big Band, Count Basie, Charlie Byrd, Bennie Carter,
Alex Chilton, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Frank Foster, 
Dexter Gordon, Benny Green, Jon Hendricks, Earl Hines,
Milt Jackson, Harry James, Vic Lewis, Don Lusher, 
Humphrey Lyttelton, Billy May, Oscar Peterson, 
Howard Roberts, Helen Shapiro, Charlie Shavers, 
Sarah Vaughan, Teddy Wilson, Peter York…..and many more.




Those silk shiny stockings
That I wear when I'm with you
I wear 'cause you told me
That you dig that crazy hue


Do we feel the romance
When we go to the dance
Oh no, you take a glance
At those shiny stockings


Then came along some chick
With great big stockings, too
When you changed your mind about me
Why, I never knew


I guess I'll have to find
A new, a new kind
A guy who digs my shiny stockings, too


Then came along some chick
With great big stockings, too
When you changed your mind about me
Why, I never knew


I guess I'll have to find
A new, a new kind
A guy who digs my shiny stockings, too
A new guy who digs my shiny stockings, too










(Contributed by Bill Huntley - October 2007)