1 Bring It Back 3:54

2 Im Shooting High 2:31

3 I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart 4:08
4 You Got To Swing And Sway 3:09
5 Aged And Mellow 4:40
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6 The Darktown Strutters Ball 2:39
7 Lucille 3:55
8 Youve Got Me Under Your Thumb 2:39
9 After The Lights Go Down Low 5:23
10 Im Sticking With You Baby 3:07
11 Strange As It Seems 3:30
12 Public Melody Number One 3:13
13 I Cover The Waterfront 5:01

Catherine Russell: vocals, percussion (6, 10), horn arrangement (5)

Matt Munisteri: guitar, arranger (6, 8)
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Mark Shane: piano

Lee Hudson: bass (except 6)
Mark McLean: drums, percussion (6)
Andy Farber: tenor saxophone, arranger (1, 2, 3, 7, 12, 13)
Jon-Erik Kellso: trumpet, horn arrangement (4)
Brian Pareschi: trumpet (except track 1)
Dan Block: alto saxophone, tenor saxophone (5), clarinet (4)
John Allred: trombone
Mark Lopeman: baritone saxophone
Nicki Parrott: bass (6)
Glenn Patscha: hammond B-3 organ (6, 9, 10)

1 Bring It Back

Bring it back home pretty baby

Need you
3 I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart

I dont mean maybe

I let a song go out of my heart

If you bring it back baby

Everythings gonna be alright

2 Im Shooting High

It was the sweetest melody

I been oh so lonely

Im shooting high

I know I lost Heaven

Cause I want you only

Got my eye on a star in the sky

Cause you were the song

And when you bring it back baby

Im shooting high

Since you and I have drifted apart

I wont sing the blues no more

Ill never stop

Life doesnt mean a thing to me

I love you like you love me

til I get to the top

Please come back sweet music

We make a real fine pair

Tell my why shouldnt I?

I know I was wrong

But aint nothin shakin

You know its you Im after

Am I too late to make amends?

When the dawn starts breakin

Youre my lucky star

You know that we were meant to be

with me over here and you over there

Im on a rainbow rafter

more than just friends

Bring it back

climbing up to where you are

Just friends

Lets get together

Ill have a time, its a climb

I let a song go out of my heart

Just like birds of a feather

But Ill make it

Believe me, darling, when I say

If you bring it back baby

Cause Im

I wont know sweet music

Everythings gonna be alright

Shooting high

Until you return some day

(Harrison Nelson)
Trio Music Company, Inc., Fort Knox Music, Inc.

(Ted Koehler, Jimmy McHugh)

EMI Robbins Catalog Inc. (ASCAP)

(D. Ellington, I. Mills, H. Nemo, John Redmond)

EMI Mills Music Inc., Sony/ATV Harmony

5 Aged and Mellow

Ive got a strange philosophy

Nothing young appeals to me
I like my men like I like my whiskey

6 The Darktown Strutters Ball

Aged and mellow

Ive got some good news, honey

Some girls just cant seem to see

An invitation to the Strutters Ball

Why these little young cats aint moving me

Its a very swell affair

I like my men like I like my whiskey

All the highbrows will be there

Aged and mellow

Put on your high silk hat and a frock tailcoat

4 You Got to Swing and Sway

Theres nothing Greenhorn can do for me

Ill wear my Paris gown and my new silk shawl

Aw, you got to swing, swing and sway

Cause my older Daddy suits me to a tee

Aint no doubt about it, babe

Swing swing swing and sway

I like my men like I like my whiskey

Well be the best dressed in the hall

Be a rug-cuttin jitter bug today

Aged and mellow

Ill be down to get you in the taxi, honey

You got to step with delight

Now listen youngster be on your way

Better be ready bout half past eight

Jump with all your might

Dont you come back here til a much later day

Now honey dont be late

Be a rug-cutter you got to cut just right

I like my men like I like my whiskey

I want to be there when the band starts playing

When they play swing music sweet

Aged and mellow

Remember when we get there, honey

Puts hot rhythm in your feet

Junior may be young and stronger

Two-steps, Im gonna have them all

Aw, you go to town like a hound

But Ill take Grandpa cause hes had it longer

Im gonna dance out both of my shoes

You gotta act just like a clown

I like my men like I like my whiskey

When they play those Jelly Roll blues

Be a rug-cutter you got to swing that thing

Aged and mellow

Tomorrow night at the Darktown Strutters Ball

(Ida Cox)
Copyright Control

(Johnny Otis, Preston Love)

Trio Music Company, Inc., Fort Knox Music, Inc.

(Shelton Brooks)
EMI Feist Catalog Inc.

8 Youve Got Me Under Your Thumb

9 After The Lights Go Down Low

Love came a-steeling, had me a-reeling, baby

After the Lights go down low

Im sorta dealing with a strange feeling now

Baby youll know

This kind of love is new

Therell be no reason for teasin me so

Thrills me right through and through

Thats the reason I feel like I do bout you

7 Lucille

Dreamy, sentimental

Thats the way she make you feel

And when the dancing is through

and folks will be few

I cant conceal love that I feel,

Ill be here sitting with no one but you

When I met you it began, baby!

And Ill be needing you so

Our first date sealed my fate,

After the lights go down low

You got me under your thumb.

I want to hold you and squeeze you

She is such an angel

When youre away just for a day,

As tight as I can

Thats my darling Lucille

I nearly die of the blues, baby!

I want to kiss you and please you

Cant deny, its no lie

And make you understand

You got me under your thumb.

That when you thrill me, you fill me

Just let me cling to you till judgment day,

with love so divine

I never thought Id ever love you, love you this way,

Together we could have a good time

what is this mad appeal

Honestly hon, no other one

After the lights go down low

That made my heart a steal

Can ever thrill me like you, baby!

Baby youll know

Call me dove, Give me love

Therell be no reason for teasin me so

You got me under your thumb.

And we can cuddle up near

Im down on my knees, just hear my pleas,

without any fear

My heart and soul you have won, baby!

Cause I got some sweet talk that youll want to hear

Right or wrong, to you I belong,

and Ill be needing you so

Youve got me under your thumb

After the lights go down low

(Will Livermash, Jack Hudgens, Mildred Brooks)

MPL Music Publishing, Inc. OBO Edwin H. Morris & Co

(Leroy Lovett, Alan White)

EMI Grove Park Music, Inc

Lucille, you make my day begin

whatever mood Im in
Depends on you Lucille
Its real, the way you make me feel

Oh how could I ever let you know

How much I love and need you so
Lucille, please keep this flame a-glow
My heart is burning so
For you, just you Lucille
(Luis Russell)
Foggy Day Music (BMI), admin by Bug Music,
a BMG/Chrysalis Company

11 Strange as it Seems

I believed that you were free

and I could win your heart

10 Im Sticking With You Baby

But I find we only can be friends

Close as ham is to a country hog

Tho there is no hope for me

Close as a collar on a dog

and you and I must part

Close as the feathers on a chickens back

Still this is the way the story ends

Tight as a rail on a railroad track

Tho I know Im wasting my time

Im stickin to you baby

to love you

Im stickin to you baby

Strange as it seems

Like cold on ice, white on rice

deep in my heart I do

Ill be with you all the time

Strange as it seems

Close as the nose is on my face

I cant stop thinking of you

Close as two horses in a dead heat race

clinging to dreams

Close as the brand on my Sunday hat

dreams that will not come true

Im tellin you baby thats a natural fact

One night of bliss

chorus

one stolen kiss is thrilling me yet

Listen to me baby as I tell you once more

Ill be snug as a rug on the living room floor

Why should it be unlucky me

Who now must forget we ever met

close as the paper on a bedroom wall

Tho you can be nothing to me

close as Ill be when I hear you call

I want you

chorus
(Rudolf Toombs, Henry Glover)
Fort Knox Music, Inc., Trio Music Company, Inc.,
Hill & Range Songs

Strange as it seems
deep in my heart I do
(Thomas Fats Waller, Andy Razaf)
Copyright Control; Anne-Rachel Music

12 Public Melody Number One

Lock your door, draw your blind

Youre in danger of the strangest kind.
Grab a train, boat or plane
Spain would even be a safety zone.
Youre on a spot, dont think youre not

Youre gonna lose all the rhythm you got

13 I Cover the Waterfront

Let me tell you why, then youre on your own.

Away from the city that hurts and mocks

Theres a new kind of enemy on the loose today

Im standing alone by the desolate docks

Its a ghost of a melody when it comes your way

In the still and the chill of the night

It kinda sneaks right up upon you

I see the horizon, that great unknown

And kinda puts the finger on you

My heart has an ache its as heavy as stone

So look out for Public Melody Number One

Will the dawn coming on make it light?

If it should be your luck and it greets you face to face

I cover the waterfront

And your feet start in truckin it all around the place

Im watching the sea

Dont try to call on Hoovers G-Men

Will the one I love be coming back to me?

Theyre just a lot of A B C men

I cover the waterfront

When it comes to Public Melody Number One

In search of my love

Frankensteins a bundle of joy

and Im covered by a starless sky above

Jesse James is the teachers pet

Here am I patiently waiting

Gatlins gun is only a toy

Hoping and longing oh, how I yearn

Compared to notes shot from a hot cornet

Where are you? Are you forgetting?

So get undercover you rhythm rascals run

Do you remember, will you return?

Hide out until he passes

I cover the waterfront

Hes out to get the masses

Im watching the sea

Look out for Public Melody Number One

For the one I love must soon come back to me

(Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen)

Sony/ATV Harmony

(John Green, Edward Heyman)

WB Music Corp

Produced by Paul Kahn and Katherine Miller

Executive Producers: Paul Kahn and Catherine Russell
Music Direction: Matt Munisteri
Arrangements: Andy Farber, Matt Munisteri, Catherine Russell, Jon-Erik Kellso
Recorded June 3-5, 2013 at MSR Studios, New York, New York
Additional Recording July 2, 2013 at Trading 8s Recording Studio, Paramus, New Jersey
Recorded by Katherine Miller
Assistant Engineer: Dan Fyfe

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Mixed by Katherine Miller at Annandale Recording

Mastered by Alan Silverman for Arf! Mastering, New York, NY
Photography: Nancy Carbonaro
art&designsbyram
Catherine Russell management and booking:
Paul Kahn, Concerted Efforts
concerted@concertedefforts.com
617.969.0810
www.catherinerussell.net
www.facebook.com/catherinerussellmusic
Catherine Russell would like to thank: Paul Kahn, Ren Goiffon, Katherine Miller,
Matt Munisteri, Andy Farber, everyone at Concerted Efforts and at Jazz Village
/harmonia mundi, Shirley Tennyson, Jim Carson, all the exceptional musicians who play
on this album, and Donald Fagen for his loving support and great tune suggestions.
Dedicated to my parents: Carline Ray and Luis Russell
Executive Producer/Jazz Village: Ren Goiffon

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