American Decades
"I Got it Bad (and that Ain't Good)"
Song
By: Duke Ellington and Paul Francis Webster
Date: 1941
Source: Ellington, Duke, and Paul Francis Webster. "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" song lyrics, 1941. Available online at http://www.thepeaches.com/music/composers/duke/IGotItBadand... ; website home page: http://www.thepeaches.com (accessed April 1, 2003.)
About the Artists: Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899–1974) was an American pianist and one of the nation's foremost jazz composers and bandleaders. Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington began to perform at age seventeen. As one of the fathers of big-band jazz, he composed or co-wrote thousands of scores. As an African American, he broke the race barrier in music. Like Ellington, Paul Francis Webster (1907–1984) was an African...
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1940's The Arts Primary Sources
- "The Aims of Music for Films"
- "The Irresponsibles"
- Speech on the Dedication of the National Gallery of Art
- "I Got it Bad (and that Ain't Good)"
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- "The Life of John Brown" Series, No. 17
- What Is Modern Painting
- On the Town Caricature
- "Richard Wright's Blues"
- The Iceman Cometh
- "What Hollywood Can Do"
- "The Gangster As Tragic Hero"
- "Jackson Pollock: Is He the Greatest Living Painter in the United States?"
- William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
- "The American Theatre"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
