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What good is melody?
What good is music?
If it ain't possessing something sweet
It ain't the melody
It ain't the music
There's something else that makes this song complete
(Bo dolled dolled do da...)
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing
(do Do a Do ap...
Well it don't mean a thing all you got to do is sing
It makes no difference if it's sweet or hot
Just give that rhythm ev-ry-thing you got YES
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing
It don't mean a thing
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing boy
(Ba ba doo dah dooâ¦)
I said it don't mean a thing and all you got to do is sing
(La la laâ¦)
Now it makes no difference if it's sweet or hot
Just give that rhythm ev-ry-thing you got OHH
It don't mean a thing boy, if it ain't got-a-that-a-swinga
Doo Wap
- Album:
- Great Divas
- The Ultimate Jazz Archive (set 39: Vocalists)
- ;The Jazz Masters Trilogy
- Les Triomphes du jazz
- Divas of Jazz and Blues
- The Ultimate Jazz Archive
- 100 Swing Jazz Classics
- The Cotton Club Recordings, Vol. 2
- Stars of the Cotton Club, Vol. 2
- Masters of Jazz - 40 Singing Ladies
- Ladies Sing the Swing
- Cotton Club Vol. 2 (Digitally Remastered)
- Cotton Club Collection, Vol. 2
- When Jazz Was Young
- Best of Jazz Foundations Vol. 4
- They Love To Sing
- The Masters of Jazz: 33 Best of Jazz Generation, Vol. 2
- The Masters of Jazz: 33 Best of Jonah Jones & Ivie Anderson
- Stormy Weather: Classic Jazz, Vol. 1
- America - Early Jazz - "The Birth of Swing"