Shiny Stockings (Fitzgerald)

'Shiny Stockings' is a 1955 jazz piece written by tenor saxophonist Frank Foster as a member of the Count Basie Orchestra, making the first recording on January 4, 1956 for release on Verve Records.

Lyrics were added later by Ella FITZGERALD:

Those silk shiny stockings that I wear when I'm with you
I wear cause you told me that you dig that crazy hue
Do we think of romance, when we go to a dance?
Oh no! You take a glance, at those shiny stockings

Then came along some chick with great big stockings too
When you changed your mind about me, why I never knew
I guess I'll have to find, a new, a new kind
A (new) guy who digs my shiny stockings too!


Recordings exist by Ella & Basie (1963), Sarah Vaughan, Karin Krog & Dexter Gordon, Kimiko Kasai, June Katz, Laura Garam, Ewa Bem, Mind Games, Virginie Teychené, etc.