Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It)

Things Ain't What They Used to Be is a 1970 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald - the final album that Fitzgerald recorded on the Reprise Records label. The album was re-issued on CD with alternative artwork in 1989. It was released together on one CD with Ella's first album recorded for Reprise label, Ella.

Things Ain't What They Used to Be
Studio album by
Ella Fitzgerald
Released1970
RecordedMay 26–30, 1969
GenreJazz
Length34:06
LabelReprise
ProducerNorman Granz
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Ella
(1969)		 Things Ain't What They Used to Be
(1970)		 Ella in Budapest, Hungary
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]

Track listing

For the 1970 LP on Reprise Records; RS 6432; Re-issued by Reprise-Warner Bros. in 1989 on CD; Reprise 9 26023-2

Side One:

  1. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) – 5:18
  2. "Mas Que Nada" (Jorge Ben Jor) – 3:49
  3. "A Man and a Woman (Un Homme et une Femme)" (Pierre Barouh, Francis Lai, Jerry Keller) – 3:17
  4. "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) – 2:22
  5. "Black Coffee" (Sonny Burke, Paul Francis Webster) – 4:28
  6. "Tuxedo Junction" (Julian Dash, Buddy Feyne, Erskine Hawkins, Bill Johnson) – 3:17

Side Two:

  1. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield) – 3:44
  2. "Don't Dream of Anybody But Me" (AKA "Li'l Darlin'") (Neal Hefti, Bart Howard) – 4:06
  3. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 3:11
  4. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 4:40
  5. "Manteca" (Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Fuller, Chano Pozo) – 2:30
  6. "Just When We're Falling in Love" (AKA "Robbins Nest") (Illinois Jacquet, Bob Russell, Sir Charles Thompson) – 2:29

Personnel

Recorded May 26–30, 1969, in Hollywood, Los Angeles:

References
  1. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It)". Allmusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
  2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 78. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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