tracks

Someone
Riff Staccato
Homesick, That's All
Kissing Bug
(Theme) Take The "A" Train (Into Station Break)
(Theme) Take The "A" Train (And Broadcast Return)
Time's A-Wastin'
Duke Ellington Bond Promo
Three Cent Stomp
There's No You
Fancy Dan
Everything But You
Fickle Fling
Duke Ellington Bond Promo
Blue Serge (Into Closing)
Take The "A" Train (Opening)
Stompy Jones
Walkin' With My Honey
Everything But You
In A Mellotone
Solid Old Man
I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues
Blue Skies
Suddendly It Jumped
Take The "A" Train (Into Broadcast Closing)
(Theme) Take The "A" Train
Main Stem
Carnegie Blues
I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
Duke Ellington Bond Promo
What Am I Here For?
Lilly Belle
Homesick, That's All
Go Away Blues
Frantic Fantasy
If You Are But A Dream
Duke Ellington Bond Promo
Jack The Bear
Every Hour On The Hour
Cotton Tail
Lament In A Minor Mood (Way Low)
Bond Promo
Teardrops In The Rain
I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues
Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Into Broadcasting Closing)

notes

℗ & © 2008 Storyville Records.

Tracks 1-1 to 1-15 - Treasury Broadcast No. 24, Radio City, Studio 6-B, Blue Network, September 22,1945 (ABC).
Tracks 1-16 to 2-4 - Broadcast from the New Zanzibar, NYC, September 24, 1945 (NBC).
Tracks 2-5 to 2-24 - Treasury Broadcast No. 25, Radio City, Studio 6-B, September 1,1945 (ABC).

Total time:
CD1: 62:07.
CD2: 69:37.

Track 1-2 has an incorrect songwriting credit, 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

Track 2-26 is credited to Ellington-Ellington as songwriters, though it is almost universally credited to Mercer Ellington alone (though it was said to have been written by Johnny Hodges, who lost it to Mercer in a card game). There is also a lyric by Ted Persons.
https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0109301&msclkid=a11210020abd17592aee4f7913599682&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=(ROI)%20Shopping&utm_term=4582558310385170&utm_cChoir

credits

Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwick
Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Harry Carney
Bass – Junior Raglin
Cornet – Rex Stewart
Drums – Sonny Greer
Guitar – Fred Guy
Liner Notes – Lance Travis
Mastered By – Jørgen Vad
Photography – Storyville Archive
Piano, Arranged By – Billy Strayhorn
Piano, Arranged By, Leader – Duke Ellington
Producer – Jerry Valburn
Reissue Producer – Jerry Valburn
Tenor Saxophone – Al Sears
Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet – Jimmy Hamilton
Transferred By – Jack Towers
Trombone – Claude Jones, Joe Nanton, Lawrence Brown
Trumpet – Cat Anderson, Shelton Hemphill, Taft Jordan
Trumpet, Violin – Ray Nance (tracks: 1-1 to 1-21, 2-5 to 2-24)
Voice – Al Hibbler (tracks: 2-1, 2-18, 2-23), Joya Sherrill (tracks: 1-4 , 2-13 ), Kay Davis (tracks: 1-10 , 2-1, 2-23), Ray Nance (tracks: 1-2)

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Storyville Records
Copyright (c) – Storyville Records
Recorded At – Radio City, Studio 6B
Recorded At – The New Zanzibar ,NYC
Manufactured By – Sony DADC – A0100939468
Manufactured By – Sony DADC – A0100939469
Designed At – CMO (2)

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