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Released on RCA, also The Pretender (Foo Fighters), Sex on Fire (Kings of Leon) and Last Nite (The Strokes)
Written by Eddie Durham, also I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire (The Ink Spots), Good Morning Blues (Ella Fitzgerald) and Every Tub (The Count Basie Orchestra)
Part of Wicked Swing, also Seventh Avenue Express (Count Basie), The Flaming Sword (Duke Ellington and His Orchestra) and The Rhumba Jumps (Glenn Miller)
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
Count Basie wrote 34 songs on fono
Count Basie first appears on fono in 1937, 61 years before this song
Credits
All 4 credits
- Written by
- Count Basie and Eddie Durham
- Part of
- Wicked Swing
- Released on
- RCA
- Written by
- Count Basie and Eddie Durham
- Part of
- Wicked Swing
- Released on
- RCA
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same writer: Eddie Durham
Same label: RCA
Same release: Wicked Swing
Same writer: Eddie Durham
Same label: RCA
Same release: Wicked Swing
Same writer: Eddie Durham
Same label: RCA
Elsewhere
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1MusicBrainz Lafayette was written by Count Basie
2MusicBrainz Lafayette was written by Eddie Durham
3MusicBrainz Lafayette is part of the release Wicked Swing
Lafayette is part of the release Wicked Swing
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
4MusicBrainz RCA is the label of the song Lafayette
5MusicBrainz Lafayette was released on 1998-10-27