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

Things Ain't What They Used to Be
Type:studio
Artist:Ella Fitzgerald
Cover:ThingsAin'tElla.jpg
Released:1970
Recorded:May 26–30, 1969
Genre:Jazz
Length:34:06
Label:Reprise
Producer:Norman Granz
Prev Title:Ella
Prev Year:1969
Next Title:Ella in Budapest, Hungary
Next Year:1999

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.

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, English Lyrics by Loryn Deane) – 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:

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