ELLINGTON Skin Deep

DUKE ELLINGTON

Skin Deep

Here’s a special treat for Chicagoans who remember this as being the theme song of the late great Dick Buckley’s radio programs for several decades, beginning in my recollection on WAAF. He later had his own short lived all jazz station and from 1977 through 2008 had a show on Chicago’s public radio station WBEZ. But even without the association with Buckley Skin Deep was a huge hit for Duke Ellington and it’s composer and Ellington drummer, Louis Belson.

Duke Ellington (piano), Louie Bellson (drums), Cat Anderson (trumpet), Clark Terry (trumpet), Willie Cook (trumpet), Ray Nance (trumpet), Juan Tizol (trombone), Quentin Jackson (trombone), Britt Woodman (trombone), Paul Gonsalves (tenor sax), Harry Carney (baritone sax), Jimmy Hamilton (reeds), Russell Procope (reeds), Hilton Jefferson (reeds), Wendell Marshall (bass). Composed by Louie Bellson.