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Shiny Stockings, 1956
Shiny Stockings, 1956  
Music: Ella Fitzgerald, Music: Frank B. Foster

A rebellious tune, Shiny Stockings was one of Fitzgerald's biggest hits of the 1960s. Her lyrics are eloquent and sarcastic:.

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 guy who digs my shiny stockings, too