SOLITUDE
(Edgar De Lange / Duke Ellington / Irving Mills)

Duke Ellington & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1934
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orch. - 1934
Mills Blue Rhythm Band - 1935
Louis Armstrong & His Orch. (vocal: Armstrong) - 1935
The Mills Brothers - 1935
The Dorsey Brothers Orch. - 1935
Louis Prima & His New Orleans Gang - 1935
Fats Waller - 1935
Django Reinhardt (Instr.) - 1937
Duke Ellington & His Orch. (vocal Ivie Anderson) - 1940
Glenn Miller & His Orch. - 1940
Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood & His Orch. - 1941
Charlie Spivak & His Orch. - 1945
Etta Jones - 1946
Al Hibbler - 1948
Ted Heath & His Orch. - 1953
Tony Bennett - 1954
Ella Fitzgerald - 1957
Rosemary Clooney & The Hi-Lo's - 1957
Pat Boone - 1958
Billy Ward & The Dominoes - 1958
Percy Faith & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1959
Dakota Staton - 1960
Vic Damone - 1961
Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong - 1961
Nina Simone - 1962
Ray Conniff Orch. & Chorus - 1964
Anthony Newley - 1964

Also recorded by: Peggy Lee; Frankie Laine; Jerry Vale;
Sarah Vaughan; Johnny Mathis; Valaida Snow; June Tabor;
Johnny Hodges; Kay Johnson; Helen Merrill; Stan Kenton;
Nelson Riddle; Benny Goodman; Clark Terry; Eartha Kitt;
Cleo Laine; Harpo Marx; Adelaide Hall; Billy Eckstine;
Paul Robeson; Roy Hamilton; Sam Cooke; Bert Kaempfert;
Ernestine Anderson; & many more......


In my solitude you haunt me
With reveries of days gone by
In my solitude you taunt me
With memories that never die

I sit in my chair
I'm filled with despair
There's nobody could be so sad
With gloom ev'rywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude
I'm praying
Dear Lord above
Send back my love


(Contributed by Bill Huntley - December 2004)