Don't Get Around Much Anymore is a jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Bob Russell. The tune was originally titled "Never No Lament" and was first recorded by Ellington in 1940 as a big band instrumental. Russell's lyrics and the new title were added in 1942.
Subjects(s): Jazz • Standard
Don't Get Around Much Anymore is a jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Bob Russell. The tune was originally titled "Never No Lament" and was first recorded by Ellington in 1940 as a big band instrumental. Russell's lyrics and the new title were added in 1942.
( from Howlin' Hobbit, www.howlinhobbit.com) The chord solo I based mine off of is Curt Sheller's version. I hope he does more like it as I‘ve found the ukulele tabs usually fall either in the "too simple to bother with" or "too difficult for normal humans" camps. The intermediate level (of) this one falls in is just right (for me, at least)...
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Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Release Date: December 2, 2015
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