Silk Stockings

~ from the 1955 Broadway musical "Silk Stockings"

Words and Music by Cole Porter

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

and The Ray Charles Singers

Arranged by Joe Reisman

Produced by Joe Carlton

Recorded in Webster Hall, New York City

Recording Time 2:46

Recorded November 16, 1954, Matrix No. E4VB-5937 Take D

SESSION MUSICIANS & CHOIR

Orchestra

Conductor: Mitchell Ayres

Contractor: Henry "Hank" Ross ( Sax )

Choir Contractor: Ray Charles

Sax ~ Hank Ross, Harry Terrill, Bernard Kaufman, Stanley Webb, Philip Zolkind

Trumpet ~ Melven Solomon, James Maxwell, James Milazzo

Trombone ~ Robert Byrne, John D'Agostino, Bart Varsalona

Piano ~ Henry Rowland

Guitar ~ Danny Perri

Bass ~ Robert Haggart

Drums ~ Robert Rosengarden, Terry Snyder

Harp ~ Lucille Lawrence

Violins ~ Sylvan Shulman, Zelly Smirnoff, Mac Ceppos, Raoul Poliakin, Jack Zayde, Harry Melnikoff, Julius Schacter, Paul Winter, Harry Glickman, Felix Orlewitz, Sidney Harris, Samuel Rand

Viola ~ Isadore Zir, Howard Kay, George Brown, Samuel Persoff

Cello ~ Maurice Brown, Lucien Schmitt

Choir ~ Ray Charles, Lois Winter, Peggy Powers, Marilyn Palmer, Marsha Heil, Marilyn Jackson, Elise Bretton, Lillian Clark, Francine Carroll, Steven Steck Jr., William Ventura, Jack Brown, Arthur Malvin, Robert Spiro, David Vogel, Eugene Lowell, Michael Stewart

Single release: RCA-78/45RPM-20/47-5950-A ( Christmas 1954 )

Single Flip Side: "( There's No Place Like ) Home for the Holidays"

UK Single release: HMV-78RPM-POP-369 Blue Label ( July 1957 )

Single Flip Side: "Childhood is a Meadow"