tracks

(Theme) Take The "A" Train
What Am I Here For?
Blue Is The Night
Ellington Bond Promo
The Wish I Wish Tonight
Someone (Into Station Break)
(Theme) Take The "A" Train (And Return)
Harlem Air Shaft
Out Of This World
Ellington Bond Promo
Midriff
Everything But You
Ring Dem Bells
Mood To Be Wooed
Ellington Bond Promo
Emancipation Celebration (Into Broadcast Close)
(Theme) Take The "A" Train
Suddendly It Jumped
Laura
Kissing Bug
Stompy Jones
Solid Old Man
Carnegie Blues
In A Mellotone
Fancy Dan
(Theme) Take The "A" Train (And Close)
(Theme) Take The "A" Train
Work Song (Black, Brown And Beige)
Ellington Bond Promo
The Blues (Black, Brown And Beige)
West Indian Dance (Black, Brown And Beige)
Ellington Bond Promo
Come Sunday / Light (Black, Brown And Beige)
(Theme) Take The "A" Train (Into Station Break)
(Theme) Take The "A" Train (And Broadcast Return)
Subtle Slough
Ellington Bond Promo
Blue Skies
I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues
Riff Staccato
Bugle Breaks
Kissing Bug
Ellington Bond Promo
Suddenly It Jumped
Warm Valley (Into Broadcast Close)
(Theme) Take The "A" Train
I Miss Your Kiss
He's Home For A Little While
Riff Staccato
I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues
I'm Beginning To See The Light

notes

℗ & © 2004 Storyville Records.

Made in Germany.

Tracks 1-1 to 1-16 - Treasury Broadcast No. 18, Radio City Studio 6B, NYC, August 11, 1945 (ABC).
Tracks 1-17 to 1-26 - Broadcast from the New Zanzibar, NYC, September 26, 1945 (NBC).
Tracks 2-1 to 2-19 - Treasury Broadcast No. 19, Radio City Studio 6B, NYC, August 18, 1945.
Tracks 2-20 to 2-25 - Broadcast from the 400 Restaurant, NYC, May 4, 1945 (CBS).

Total time:
CD1: 67:05.
CD2: 71:22.

Tracks 2-14 & 2-23 are wrongly attributed to Arthur Schwartz. According to ASCAP, it was written by Simon Schwartz and Milt Orient.
https://www.ascap.com/repertory#ace/search/title/riff%20staccato/performer/duke%20ellington

credits

Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwick
Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Harry Carney
Bass – Junior Raglin
Design – CMO (3)
Drums – Sonny Greer
Guitar – Fred Guy
Liner Notes – Jerry Valburn
Mastered By – Jørgen Vad
Piano, Arranged By – Billy Strayhorn
Piano, Arranged By, Leader – Duke Ellington
Producer – Jerry Valburn
Tenor Saxophone – Al Sears
Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet – Jimmy Hamilton
Trombone – Claude Jones, Joe Nanton, Lawrence Brown
Trumpet – Cat Anderson, Rex Stewart, Shelton Hemphill, Taft Jordan
Trumpet, Violin – Ray Nance
Voice – Al Hibbler (tracks: 2-13, 2-24), Joya Sherrill (tracks: 1-5 , 1-12 , 1-20, 2-16, 2-22, 2-25), Kay Davis (tracks: 1-9 , 2-13, 2-24), Marie Ellington (tracks: 2-4), Ray Nance (tracks: 2-14)

companies

Copyright (c) – Storyville Records
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Storyville Records
Recorded At – Radio City, Studio 6B
Recorded At – 400 Restaurant
Recorded At – The New Zanzibar ,NYC

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