1940's The Arts | "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...