"I Got It Bad (and that ain't good)": Song history, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video

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I Got It Bad (and that ain't good)

Written: 1941	Music by: Duke Ellington	Words by: Paul Francis Webster	Written for: Jump for Joy (show, 1941)
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Dianne Reeves

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"I Got It Bad (and that ain't good)"

(c. 1987)

Reeves recorded "I Got it Bad" in the studio in 1987,
for her album "Dianne Reeves"

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About the Show Jump for Joy / Origins of the Song

Songs from Jump for Joy other than "I Got it Bad" included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook:

1.Just Squeeze Me
(but please don't tease me)

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Click here to read the lyrics for "I Got It Bad (and that ain't good)," as sung by Ella Fitzgerald.
This version does not include the verse, and varies in other ways from Paul Francis Webster's original.

The complete, authoritative lyrics for "title'" can be found in:

book cover: "Reading Lyrics" Ed. by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball

Reading Lyrics,
Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.

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Dianne Reeves: Vladimirsmartins

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"I Got It Bad
(and that ain't good)"

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