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March 24, 1932 First recording on February 2, 1932
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It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Mel Tormé 1956 Unverified
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It Don't Mean a Thing New Riverside Dixieland Jazzband 1982 Unverified
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May 4, 1984 Medley
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June 26, 1984 Medley
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November 1989 A cappella
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July 9, 1991
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It Don't Mean a Thing De Nootenkraaksters 1991 Unverified
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1992 Medley
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing Georgie Fame, Madeline Bell, The BBC Big Band (Georgie Fame, Madeline Bell) 1992 Unverified
1993 A cappella
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It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing Orchestre National De Jazz, Denis Badault (Orchestre National de Jazz) 1993 Unverified
November 8, 1994 Live
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It Don't Mean a Thing Cleve Douglass 1994 Unverified
1995 Medley
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September 30, 1996
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It Don't Mean a Thing JoJo Swingband 1996 Unverified
September 9, 1997
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It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Echoes Of Ellington Orchestra 1997 Unverified
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April 27, 1999
July 16, 1999
September 28, 1999
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It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Andrea Baker (Andrea Baker) 1999 Unverified
It Don't Mean A Thing If You Ain't Got That Swing Elizabeth Carling 1999 Unverified
It Don't Mean a Thing... Laďa Kerndl 1999 Unverified
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It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Elvy Rose 2001 Unverified
May 22, 2002 Live
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February 25, 2003
August 12, 2003
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It Don't Mean a Thing Danila Satragno, George Cables (Danila Satragno, George Cables) 2003 Unverified
It Don't Mean a Thing - I've Got Rhythm Joy Garrison 2003 Unverified
September 7, 2004
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It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing Chantz 2004 Unverified
January 25, 2005
June 24, 2005 Live
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It Don't Mean a Thing Hanna Richardson & Phil Flanigan 2006 Unverified
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Fred Vine 2006 Unverified
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February 15, 2008
September 23, 2008
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October 29, 2008
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March 15, 2009
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September 22, 2009
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2009 Live
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It Don't Mean a Thing Penge Benge Jazz Band 2009 Unverified
January 2010
It Don't Mean a Thing The Cook Trio February 1, 2010 Unverified
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September 15, 2010
September 23, 2010
September 23, 2010
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April 10, 2011
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April 25, 2012
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It Don't Mean a Thing Hilda Kazasian 2012 Unverified
June 17, 2013 Editor's cover song pick
August 20, 2013
It Don't Mean a Thing Daisuke Ito With Root Bagu (Daisuke Ito) October 9, 2013 Unverified
October 19, 2013
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It Don't Mean a Thing Juju 2013 Unverified
May 19, 2014
June 14, 2014 Medley
June 16, 2014
June 21, 2014
September 19, 2014
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) D. James Keene November 2014 Unverified
December 16, 2014
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2014 Medley
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It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) James Morrison [AU] - Vocal by Hetty Kate (James Morrison [AU], Hetty Kate) 2014 Unverified
March 2015 Live
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May 7, 2015
September 4, 2015
September 23, 2015
November 20, 2015 A cappella
December 2015 A cappella
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February 17, 2016 Live
March 25, 2016 Medley
April 29, 2016 Medley
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August 28, 2016
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October 21, 2016
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January 12, 2017
May 18, 2018
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September 28, 2018 Live
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March 7, 2019
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Tennessee Sheiks August 27, 2019 Unverified
October 29, 2019
October 2019
2019
It Don't Mean a Thing Django's Tiger 2019 Unverified
February 14, 2020
March 27, 2020 Medley
March 2020
It Don't Mean a Thing Harald Hertel's Jam Swingers July 31, 2020 Unverified
November 27, 2020
December 15, 2020
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February 23, 2021
It Don't Mean a Thing Douyé July 7, 2023 Unverified

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i 1935 Medley
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i It Don't Mean a Thing Frank Coughlan's Trocadero Orchestra (Frank Coughlan) 1937 Unverified
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i It Don't Mean a Thing Claude Hopkins With Buddy Tate, Emmett Berry (Emmett Berry, Buddy Tate, Claude Hopkins) 1960 Unverified
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i It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Directions In Jazz Unit 1965 Unverified
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i It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Ron Enyard, Paul Plummer, Lou Lausche 1979 Unverified
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i It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing Milt Hinton 1990 Unverified
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i It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) The Australian Cotton Club Orchestra (Australian Cotton Club Orchestra) 1992 Unverified
i December 1993 Medley
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i It Don't Mean a Thing The Robin Nolan Swing Quartet (Robin Nolan) 1994 Unverified
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i It Don't Mean a Thing Kazimierz Jonkisz Quartet Featuring Janusz Zabiegliński (Kazimierz Jonkisz) 1997 Unverified
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i It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing Stan Tracey 1998 Unverified
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i It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Adam Makowicz 2000 Unverified
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i It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Dick Cary's Tuesday Night Friends 2001 Unverified
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i It Don't Mean a Thing Dexterity featuring Grant Stewart 2004 Unverified
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i It Don't Mean a Thing Toshiko & Lew (Toshiko Akiyoshi, Lew Tabackin) June 18, 2008 Unverified
i November 11, 2008
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i It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Djangonauts 2008 Unverified
i April 17, 2009
i June 16, 2009
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i It Don't Mean a Thing Laurent Mignard Duke Orchestra 2009 Unverified
i January 15, 2010
i January 23, 2010 Live
i February 2010
i December 1, 2010
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i 2010 Live
i It Don't Mean a Thing Makoto Terashita (Makoto Terashita) 2010 Unverified
i It Don't Mean a Thing Tupplurarna 2010 Unverified
i It Don't Mean a Thing Fraser Gartshore 2010 Unverified
i March 2011
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i It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) John Brown Trio (John Brown) 2011 Unverified
i It Don't Mean a Thing Junko Moriya Orchestra 2012 Unverified
i March 25, 2013
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i It Don't Mean a Thing Jonny Hepbir, Dan Teper (Jonny Hepbir) August 5, 2013 Unverified
i It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) The Jake Burgess Nonet August 2013 Unverified
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i It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Novel Jazz Septet June 1, 2015 Unverified
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i It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Fabrizio Bosso 2015 Unverified
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i It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Paris Jazz Club 2016 Unverified
i It Don't Mean a Thing La Manush Banda 2016 Unverified
i It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) James Morrison, BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart (James Morrison [AU]) June 2, 2017 Unverified
i June 6, 2017
i June 2017
i It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Heliotrope Swing November 2017 Unverified
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i June 26, 2019
i September 13, 2019
i It Don't Mean a Thing Mark Sganga October 29, 2019 Unverified
i December 2019
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i April 21, 2021
i It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Kilian Kemmer Trio April 30, 2021 Unverified
i September 17, 2021
i It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Andrew Dickeson's Blue Rhythm Band September 2021 Unverified
i It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing Jukka Haavisto 2022 Unverified
i It Don't Mean a Thing Marta Sierra & Yorgui Loeffler (Yorgui Loeffler) February 10, 2023 Unverified
i March 15, 2023
i May 5, 2023

{Ho lo shve harbe (im haser lo ta ze)} written by Hebrew

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{Ho lo shve harbe (im haser lo ta ze)} (Eli Degibri, Yonathan Avishai, Avishai E. Cohen, Alon Oleartchik, Shai Zelman, Ofer Shneider) June 29, 1999 First recording in April 1999
First release
Live