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EARLY ELLINGTON
The Original Decca recordings

(CD x 3 DECCA JAZZ / GRD 3 640) USA

1926 to 1931

CD 1 : East St. Louis toodle-Oo (1st version) / Birmingham breakdown (1st version) / Immigration blues / The creeper (2 takes) / New Orleans low-down / Song of the cotton field / Birmingham breakdown (2nd version) / East St. Louis toodle-Oo (2nd version) / Black and tan fantasy / Soliloquy / Red hot band / Doin' the frog / Take it easy / Jubilee stomp / Black beauty (2 takes) / Yellow dog blues / Tishomingo blues / Awful sad / The mooche / Louisiana.

CD 2 : Doin' the voom voom / Tiger rag Part 1 (2 takes) / Tiger rag Part 2 / Rent party blues / Paducah / Harlem flat blues / Black and blue / Jungle jamboree / Ain't misbehavin' / Doin' the new low down / Jolly wog / Jazz convulsions / Six or seven times (2 takes) / Goin' nuts / Oklahoma stomp (2 takes) / Sweet mama / Wall street wail (2 takes) / Cincinnati daddy.

CD 3 : Maori (A samoan dance) (1st version) / When you're smiling (The whole world smiles with you) (2 takes) / Maori (A samoan dance) (2nd version) / Admiration / Double check stomp / Accordion Joe (2 takes) / Cotton Club stomp (2 takes) / Runnin' wild / Mood indigo / Home again blues / Wang-wang blues / Rockin' chair / Rockin' in rhythm / Twelfth street rag / The peanut vendor / Creole rhapsody Part 1 / Creole rhapsody Part 2 (2 takes) / Is that religion ?

THE COMPLETE BRUNSWICK AND VOCALION RECORDINGS
1926 - 1931

(CD x 3 VERVE / 534 246 8) EU

1926 to 1931

Same as EARLY ELLINGTON - The Original Decca recordings

THE COMPLETE 1936-1940 VARIETY, VOCALION AND OKEY
SMALL GROUPS SESSIONS

(Box CD x 7 MOSAIC RECORDS / MD7235) USA - Limited Edition

March 5, 1935 to February 15, 1940

CD 1 : Tough truckin' (2 takes) / Indigo echoes (2 takes) / Rexatious (2 takes) / Lazy man's shuffle (2 takes) / Clouds in my heart (2 takes) / Frolic Sam (2 takes) / Caravan (2 takes) Stompy Jones (2 takes) / Mood indigo -Solitude / Sophisticated lady - In a sentimental mood / I can't believe that you're in love with me (2 takes) / Downtown uproar (2 takes) / Diga diga doo (2 takes).

CD 2 : Blue reverie (2 takes) / Tiger rag (2 takes) / My honey's lovin' arms / Did anyone ever tell you ? (2 takes) / Alabamy Home / Where are you ? / Lament for a lost love (Solace) (2 takes) / Four and one-half street (2 takes) / Demi-tasse (2 takes) / Jazz a la carte (2 takes) / Foolin' myself (2 takes) / A sailboat in the moonlight (2 takes) / You'll never go to heaven (If you break my heart) (2 takes) / Peckin' (3 takes).

CD 3 : Get it southern style (2 takes) / Moonlight fiesta (2 takes) / Sponge cake and spinach (2 takes) / If you're ever in my arms (2 takes) / The back room romp (A contrapuntal stomp) (2 takes) / Love in my heart (Swing baby swing) (2 takes) / Sugar hill shim sham (2 takes) / Tea and trumpets (LP, CD and 78 takes) / Jubilesta / Watchin' / Pigeons and peppers / I can't give you anything but love / Drummer's delight / If I tought you cared (2 takes) / Lost in meditation (Have a heart) (2 takes).

CD 4 : My day / Silvery moon and golden sands / Echoes of Harlem (3 takes) / Jeep's blues / If you were in my place (What would yoy do ?) / I let a song go out of my heart / Rendez-vous with rhythm / A lesson in C / Swingtime in Honolulu / Carnival in Caroline / Ol' man river / You walked out of the picture (2 takes) / Pyramid / Empty ballroom blues / Lost in meditation (2 takes) / A blues serenade / Love in swingtime / Swingin' in the dell / Jitterbug's lullaby.

CD 5 : Chasin' chippies / Blue is the evening / Sharpy / Swing Pan Alley / Prelude to a kiss / There's something about an old love / The jeep is jumpin' / Krum elbow blues / I'm in another world / Hodge podge / Dancing on the stars / Wanderlust / Delta mood / The boys from Harlem / Mobile blues (2 takes) / Gal-avantin' / Blue light (Translucency) (2 takes) / Like a ship in the night / Mississippi dreamboat / Swingin' on the campus / Dooji wooji.

CD 6 : Beautiful romance / Boudoir Benny / Ain't the gravy good ? (2 takes) / She's gone / Just good fun / Informal blues / San Juan Hill / I'll come back for more / Fat stuff serenade / Savoy strut (2 takes) / Rent party blues / Dance of the goon / Good gal blues / Finesse / Kitchen machanic's day / My heart jumped over the moon / You can count on me / Home town blues / Utt-da-zay (The tailor song) / Chew-chew-chew (Your bubble gum) / Barney goin' easy / Just another dream / Night song.

CD 7 : Blues a poppin' / Top and bottom / Black beauty / The rabbit's jump / Moon romance / Truly wonderful / Dream blues / Skunk hollow blues / I know what you do / Your love has faded / Tired socks / Blues / Early mornin' / Minuet in blues / Lost in two flats / Honey hush / Blues / Plucked again / Pelican drag / Tapioca / Mardi Gras madness / Watch the birdie / Black butterfly / Dry long so / Toasted pickle / Give it up.

THE BLANTON-WEBSTER BAND
(CD triple BLUEBIRD- RCA / 2659 2 RB) USA

March 6, 1940 to July 28, 1942

CD 1 : You, you darling / Jack the bear / Ko-ko / Morning glory / So far, so good / Congo brava / Concerto for Cootie / Me and you / Cottontail / Never no lament / Dusk / Bojangles (A portrait of Bill Robinson) / A portrait of Bert Williams / Blue goose / Harlem air shaft / At a Dixie roadside diner / All too soon / Rumpus in Richmond / My greatest mistake / Sepia panorama / There shall be no night / In a mellotone.

CD 2 : Five o'clock whistle / Warm valley / The flaming sword / Across the track blues / Chloe (Song of the swamp) / I never felt this way before / The sidewalks of New York / Flamingo / The girl in my dreams tries to look like you / Take the A train / Jumpin' punkins / John hardy's wife / Blue Serge / After all / Bakiff / Are you stickin' ? / Just a-settin' and a-rockin' / The giddybug gallop / Chocolate shake / I got it bad (And that ain't good) / Clementine / The brown-skin gal (In the caligo gown).

CD 3 : Jump for joy / Moon over Cuba / Five o'clock drag / Rocks in my bed / Bli-blip / Chelsea bridge / Raincheck / What good would it do ? / I don't know what kind of blues I got ? / Perdido / The C jam blues / Moon mist / What am I here for ? / I don't mind / Someone / My little brown book / Main stem / Johnny come lately / Hayfoot strawfoot / Sentimental lady / A slip of the lip (Can sink a ship) / Sherman shuffle.

DUKE AT HIS VERY BEST
Legendary works 1940 - 1942

(CD x 4 FREMEAUX & ASSOCIES / FA5869) France

1940 to 1942
Compiled by Alain Pailler & Tony Baldwin


CD 1 : Jack the bear / Ko-ko / Morning glory / Conga brava / Concerto for Cootie / Cotton tail / Never no lament / Dusk / Bojangles (A portrait of Bill Robinson) / A portrait of Bert Williams / Blue goose / Harlem air-shaft / All too soon / Rumpus in Richmond / Sepia panorama / In a mellotone / Warm valley / Across the track blues / Chloé (song of the swamp) / The sidewalks of New York / Take the A train / Blue Serge / Jumpin' pumpkins.

CD 2 : John hardy's wife / After all / Are you stickin' ? / Just a-settin' and a-rockin' / The giddybug gallop / Chocolate shake / I got it bad (And that ain't good) / Clementine / Jump for joy / Five o'clock drag / Rocks in my bed / Bli-blip / Chelsea bridge / Raincheck / I don't know what kind of blues I got / Perdido / C jam blues / Moon mist / What am I here for ? / I don't mind / Someone / Main stem / Johnny come lately / Sentimental lady.

CD 3 : You, you darlin' / So far, so good / Me and you / At a Dixie roadside diner / My greatest mistake / There shall be no night / Five o'clock whistle / The flaming sword / I never felt this way before / Flamingo / The girl in my dreams (Tries to look like you) / Bakiff / The brown-skin gal (In the caligo gown) / Moon over Cuba / What good would you it do ? / My little brown book / Hayfoot strawfoot / A slip of the lip (Can sink a ship) / Sherman shuffle / Pitter panther patter / Body and soul / Sophisticated lady / Mr. J.B. blues.

CD 4 : Good Queen Bess / Day dreams / That's the blues, old man / Junior hop / Without a song / My Sunday gal / Mobile bay / Linger awhile / Charlie the chulo / Lament for javanette . A lull at dawn / Ready Eddy / Some Saturday / Subtle slough / Menelik (The lion of Judah) / Poor Bubber / Squatty roo / Passion flower / Things ain't what they used to be / Goin' out the back way / Brown Suede / Noir bleu / C blues / June.

BLACK, BROWN & BEIGE
(CD triple BLUEBIRD - RCA / ND 86641)

December 1st, 1944 to September 3, 1946



CD 1 : Black, Brown and Beige : Work song - Come Sunday - The blues - Three dances / I ain't got nothin' but th blues / I'm beginning to see the light / Don't you know I care (Or don't you care to know) / I didn't know about you / Carnegie blues / Blue cellophane / Mood to be wood / (All of a sudden) My heart sings / Kissing bug / Everything but you / (Otto make that) Riff staccato / Prelude to a kiss / Caravan / Black and tan fantasy.

CD 2 : Mood indigo / In a sentimental mood / It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) / Sophisticated lady / Tonight I shall sleep (with a smile on my face) / Solitude / Black beauty / Every hour on the hour (I fall in love with you) / Perfume suite : Balcony serenade - Strange feeling - Dancers in love - Coloratura / Thing's ain't what they used to be / Tell ya what I'm gonna do / Come to baby, do ! / I'm just a lucky so-and-so / Long, strong and consecutive / The wonder of you / Rockabye river / Suddenly it jumped.

CD 3 : Transblucency / Just squeeze me (But don't tease me) / A gathering in a clearing / You don't love me no more / Pretty woman / Hey baby / Back home again in Indiana / Blues is the night / Lover man / Just you, just me / Beale street blues / My honey's lovin' arms / Memphis blues / I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you / Saint-Louis blues / Swamp fire / Royal garden blues / Esquire swank / Midriff.

V DISC
A musical contribution by America's best

(CD triple CD V-DISC / 1 à 3)



CD 1 : Ellington mood / Air conditioned jungle / Sophisticated lady / Azure / Black, Brown and Beige part. 1 / Black, Brown and Beige part. 2 / Kissing bug / Carnegie blues / Creole love call / Diminuendo in blue / Crescendo in blue / Deep south suite part. 1 (Magnolias drippin' in molasses) / Deep south suite part. 2 (Hearsay or Orson)/ Deep south suite part. 3 (Nobody was looking) / Deep south suite part. 4 (Happy go lucky local) / Esquire swank / Flamingo / Frantic fantasy.

CD 2 : Frankie and Johnny part. 1 / Frankie and Johnny part. 2 / Hollywood hangover / I never felt this way before / Live and love tonight / In the shade of the old apple tree / It don't mean a thing / Perfume suite part. 1 / Perfume suite part. 2 / Prelude to a kiss / Ring dem bells / Take the A train / Sentimental lady / The mood to be wooed / Things ain't what they used to be / Unbooted character / Warm valley / I'm checkin' out, goom-bye / Tootin' through the roof.

CD 3 : New world a comin' part. 1 / New world a comin' part. 2 / The golden cress / Are you stickin' / Don't get around much anymore / Harlem airshaft / Rockabye river / Main stem / Ring dem bells / Perdido / New York city blues / Boy meets horn / I can't give you anything but love / On the sunny side of the street / Caravan / In a sentimental mood / Royal garden blues / The mooche / Rockin' in rhythm / Sultry sunset.

THE COMPLETE CAPITOL RECORDINGS OF DUKE ELLINGTON
(Box CD x 5 MOSAIC RECORDS / MD 5160) USA - Limited Edition

April 6, 1953 to May 19, 1955

CD 1 : Satin doll / Without a song / Cocktails for two / My old flame / I can't give you anything but love / Ain't nothin' nothin' (Baby without you) / Stormy weather / Star dust / Three litlle words / Orson / Boo-Dah / Blossom / Ballin' the blues / Warm valley / Flamingo / Bluejean beguine / Liza / Who knows / Retrospection / B sharp blues / Passion flower / Dancers in love / Reflections in D.

CD 2 : Melancholia / Prelude to a kiss / In a sentimental mood / Things ain't what they used to be / All too soon / Janet / Give me the right / Is it a sin ? (My lovin' you) / Don't touch me / Basin street blues / Big drag / Hear my plea / Don't ever say goodbye / What more can I say ? / Kinda dukish / Montevido / December blue / I'm just a lucky so and so / It shouldn't happen to a dream / What more can I say ? / Rockin' in rhyhm / Ultra deluxe.

CD 3 : Flying home / Chile bowl / Blue moon / Oh ! well / Just a-sittin' and a-rockin' / Ultra deluxe / Flying home / What more can I say ? / Serious serenade / Just a-sittin' and a-rockin' / Honeysuckle rose / Night time / Stompin' at the Savoy / Don't ever say goodbye / Black and tan fantasy / Frivolous banta / In the mood / One o'clock jump.

CD 4 : Things ain't what they used to be / Happy-go-lucky local / Rockin' in rhythm / Falling like a raindrop / All day long / Bunny hop mambo / Isle of Capri / C jam blues / Band call / Gonna tan your hide / It don't mean a thing / Smile / Echo tango / If I give my heart to you / Chile bowl / Bakiff.

CD 5 : Twelfth street rag / September song / Caravan / La virgen de la macarena / Harlem air shaft (2 takes) / Look what I've got for you / Commercial time / Clarinet melodrama / Theme for Trambean / Coquette / Serious serenade / Body and soul / Discontented blues / Once in a blue mood / Lady be good / So long.

SHOWCASE
(Box LP triple CAPITOL / 1551893)

April 6, 1953 to May 18, 1955

Included in THE COMPLETE CAPITOL RECORDINGS OF DUKE ELLINGTON




Side 1 : Satin doll / Cocktails for two / Flamingo / Liza / My old flame / I can't give you anything but love / Stormy weather.

Side 2 : Stardust / Three little words / Orson / Boo-dah / Blossom / Warm valley / Who knows.

Side 3 : In a sentimental mood / Dancers in love / Prelude to a kiss / The big drag / Kinda dukish / Just a-settin' and a-rockin' / Ultra de luxe.

Side 4 : Night time / Don't ever say goodbye / Black and tan fantasy / Frivolous banta / Things ain't what they used to be.

Side 5 : Happy-go-lucky local / Rockin' in rhythm / Fallin' like a raindrop / All day long / The C jam blues.

Side 6 : Band call / Smile / Chile bowl / Caravan / Harlem airshaft / Serious serenade.

DUKE 56/62 volume 1
(LP double CBS - Jazzothèque/ 88 653) France

July 7, 1956 to June 2, 1959



Side 1 : Black and tan fantasy / A-flat minor / Suburban beauty / Cafe au lait / West indian dance / Cop out / Allah-bye.

Side 2 : Piano improvisations (part. 1 à 4) / Commercial time / Mood indigo.

Side 3 : Mood indigo / Wellow weep for me / Where or when / All the things you are (2 takes) / Nighth and day / Slamart in D flat.

Side 4 : Track 360 (Trains that pass in the night) / Jones / Lullaby of Birdland / Feet bone / Red carpet / Satin doll / When I trilly with my filly / Anatomy of a murder.

DUKE 56/62 volume 2
(LP double CBS - Jazzothèque/ 88 654) France

December, 1959 to June 21, 1962



Side 1 : Brown Penny / Pie eyes blues / Sentimental lady / Sweet and pungent / The swinger's jump / Lullaby of birdland.

Side 2 : lullaby of Birdland / Dreamy sort of thing / The wailer / Asphalt jungle suite : Wild car - Cops - Robbers.

Side 3 : Lotus blossom / Matumbe / Just a-settin' and a-rockin' / Tulip or turnip / Jingle bells / One more once.

Side 4 : Blues in hoss flat / Asphalt jungle theme (2 takes) / Bon amour (Guitar amour) / Turkiss coffee / Jingle bells.

DUKE 56/62 volume 3
(LP CBS - Jazzothèque/ 26 3064) France

Janvier 1st, 1956 to March 3, 1961



Side 1 : If you were in my place (What would you do ?) / Just a-sittin' and a-rockin' / Pomegranate / Rock city rock / Your love has faded / My heart , my mind, my everything / Together / Duke's place / Hand me down love / Walkin' and singin' the blues.

Side 2 : I cant' give you anything but love / To know you is to love you / The lonely ones / Lost in loveliness / I'm just a lucky so and so / One more once / Day in day out / Why I was born / Love you madly / Where in the world / Song from "Moulin Rouge".

THE REPRISE STUDIO RECORDINGS
(Box CD x 5 MOSAIC RECORDS / MD5193) USA - Limited Edition

November 29, 1962 to April 14, 1965

Albums included : Afro-bossa, The symphonic Ellington, Ellington '65, Mary Poppins, Ellington '66, Will big bands ever come back?, Concert in the virgin island, Duke Ellington's greatest hits, Recollection of the big band era, Jazz violin session


CD 1 : Christopher Colombus / Let's get together / Goodbye / Chant of the weed / I'm gettin' sentimental over you / One o'clock jump / Tuxedo junction / Ciribiribin / It's a lonesome old town when you're not around / Minnie the moocher / Sentimental Journey / When it's sleepy time down south / For dancers only / Rhapsody in blue / Contrasts / Sleep / Don't get around much anymore / Auld lang syne / The midnight sun will never set / Woodchopper's ball / Artistry in rhythm / Smoke rings / The waltz you saved for me / Cherokee.

CD 2 : Afro-bossa / Purple gazelle / Absinthe / Moonbow / Sempre amore / Caline (Silk lace) / Tigress / Angu / Volupe / Bonga / Pyramid / Eight veil / Resume #1 (excerpts from Afro Bossa album) / Resume #2 (excerpts from Afro Bossa album) / Tricky's licks / Blues in C / Limbo jazz / Pretty little one / String along with strings / The feeling of jazz.

CD 3 : Take the A train / In a sentimental mood / Don't get around much anymore / Day dream / Cotton tail / Night creature (first movement) : Bling bug / Night creature (second movement) : Stalking monster / Night creature (third movement) : Dazzling creature / Non-violent integration / La scala, she too pretty to be blue / Harlem.

CD 4 : Hello, Dolly! / Call me irresponsible / Fly me to the moon / So little time / Danke schoen / More / The second time around / Never on Sunday / I left my heart in San Francisco / Blowin' in the Wind / Stranger on the shore / Red roses for a blue lady / Charade / People / All my lovin' / A beautiful friendship / I want to hold you hand / Days of wine and roses / I can't stop loving you / The good life / Satin doll / Moon river / Ellington '66.

CD 5 : A spoonful of sugar / Chim chim cheree / Feed the birds / Let's go fly a kite / Stay awake / I love to laugh / Jolly holiday / Sister Suffragette / The perfect nanny / Step in time / The life is lead / Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious / Island virgin / Virgin jungle / Fiddle on the diddle / Jungle Kitty / Things ain't what they used to be / Big fat Alice's blues / Chelsea bridge / The opener / Mysterious chick / Barefoot stomper / Fade up.

LIVE AND RARE
(CD triple BLUEBIRD / 63 953 2)



CD 1 : Congress Theatre, Eastbourne - December 1st, 1973 (live)

The piano player / Creole love call / Don't you know I care / I can't get started / New York, New York / Pitter panther patter / How high the moon / Basin street blues / Tiger rag / Soso / Meditation / Mecuria, the Lion.

Pittsburg Jazz Festival, Pennsylvania - June 25, 1965 (live)

Take the A train / Ellington's father's day greeting / House of Lords / The second portrait of the Lion.

New York - February 28, 1968 (studio)

Sweet fat and that / Satin doll / Carolina shout.

CD 2 : THE DUKE AT TANGLEWOOD : Tanglewood Music Center, Massachussetts - July 28 (live) and fall, 1965 (studio)

Ellington speach / Caravan / Ellington speach / Mood indigo / Ellington speach / The mooche / Ellington speach / I let a song go out of my heart / Ellington speach / I'm beginning to see the light / Ellington speach / Do nothin' till you hear from me / Ellington speach / Sophisticated lady / Timons of Athens march / Solitude / I got it bad (And that ain't good) / Satin doll / Love scene / Single petal of a rose / The mooche (rehearsal, 2 takes) / Love scene (rehearsal, 2 takes) / I'm beginning to see the light (rehearsal) / Do nothin' till you hear from me (rehearsal) / Satin doll (rehearsal, 2 takes).

CD 3 : READER'S DIGEST RECORDINGS : New York -September 2 and 4, 1969 (studio)

La dolce vita / Alfie / Spanish flea / Manha de carnaval / A taste of honey / Summer samba / Misty / One note samba / Soon it's gonna rain / Mr. Lucky / Walking happy / Moon maiden (instrumental) / La dolce vita / Alfie / A taste of honey / Summer samba / One note samba / Soon it's gonna rain (3 takes) / Moon maiden (vocal) / Walking happy (5 takes).

LA CHANSON DU DUKE
(Box 5 CD CRISTAL RECORDS / 501 349 2) France

1927 to 2014
Compiled by Claude Carrière




CD 1 : The blues I love to sing / It don't mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing) / I'm satisfied / Big city blues / Oh babe ! Maybe someday / I've got a rug cutter / Alabamy home / If you were in my place / CArnival in Caroline / Swingtime in Honolulu / Solitude / Lost in meditation / You gave me the gate / La de doody doo / Watermelon man / Something to live for / I'm checkin' out go'om bye / A lonely co-ed / Your love has faded / Killin' myself / Mood indigo / Me and you / The girl in my dreams tries to look like you.

CD 2 : Chocolate shake / I got it bad (And that ain't good) / Brown-skinned gal (In the caligo gown) / Jump for joy / Rocks in my bed / Bli-blip / Love like this can't las / I don't know what kind of blues I got / I don't mind / My little brown book / A slip of the lip (Can sink a ship) / Take the A train / The blues (Mauve) / Do nothin' till you hear from me / Go away blues / I ain't got nothin' but the blues / I'm beginning to see the light / Don't you know I care / I didn't know about you / Hit me with a hot note (And watch me bounce) / Kissing bug / Everything but you.

CD 3 : I let a song go out of my heart / Strange feeling / I'm just a lucky so and so / The wonder of you / Transblucency / Just squeeze me / Pretty woman / Hey, baby / Minnehaha / Tulip or turnip / Women (They'll get you) / I feel and broke my heart / (You're just an old) Antidisestablishmentarianismist / You gotta crawl before you walk / Brown Betty / He makes me believe he's mine / Take love easy / Don't get around much anymore / Once upon a time / I could get a man / On a turquoise cloud / I like the sunrise.

CD 4 : Good woman blues / I’m afraid I’m loving you too much / Love you madly / Build that railroad / I love my lovin’ lover / Just a-settin’ and a-rockin’ / Grievin’ / Blue rose / Sophisticated lady / Carribee Joe / Rhumbop / What else can you do with a drum / You better know it / Day dream / Drop me off in Harlem / All too soon / Caravan / Perdido.

CD 5 : Come Sunday / Duke’s place / Multicolored blue / Alice BABS : Serenade to Sweden / My mother, my father and love (Heritage) / What color is virtue / Ella FITZGERALD : In a sentimental mood / Azure / Sarah VAUGHAN : Prelude to a kiss / Ella FITZGERALD : In a mellow tone / Ella FITZGERALD : Lush life / Nancy WILSON : Passion flower / LAMBERT, HENDRICKS & ROSS : What am I here for / Joya SHERRILL : A flower is a lonesome thing / Louis ARMSTRONG : Azalea / Ella FITZGERALD : Satin doll / Peggy LEE : I’m gonna go fishin’ / LAMBERT, HENDRICKS & ROSS : Mignight indigo / Nicolle ROCHELLE : Paris blues / Rebecca CAVANAUGH : Pretty girl.