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The Blanton-Webster band, Duke Ellington

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The Blanton-Webster band

Recorded Mar. 6, 1940-July 28, 1942, in Chicago, Hollywood, and New York

Duke Ellington

(cont.): I never felt this way before / Dubin, Ellington (3:23) -- The sidewalks of New York / Lawlor, Blake (3:14) -- Flamingo / Grouya, Anderson (3:22) -- The girl in my dreams tries to look like you / Mercer Ellington (3:19) -- Take the "A" train / Strayhorn (2:54) -- Jumpin' punkins / Mercer Ellington (3:33) -- John Hardy's wife / Mercer Ellington (3:28) -- Blue serge / Mercer Ellington (3:20) -- After all / Strayhorn (3:19) -- Bakiff / Tizol (3:23) -- Are you sticking? (3:02) -- Just a-settin' and a-rockin' / Ellington, Strayhorn, Gaines (3:33) -- The giddybug gallop (3:29) -- Chocolate shake / Ellington, Webster (2:50) -- I got it bad (and that ain't good) / Ellington, Webster (3:17) -- Clementine / Strayhorn (2:53) -- The brown-skin gal (in the calico gown) / Ellington, Webster (3:06) --(cont.): Jump for joy / Ellington, Webster, Kuller (2:50) -- Moon over Cuba / Ellington, Tizol (3:09) -- Five o'clock drag (2:49) -- Rocks in my bed (3:06) -- Bli-blip / Ellington, Kuller (3:03) -- Chelsea Bridge / Strayhorn (2:52) -- Raincheck / Strayhorn (2:28) -- What good would it do? / Pepper, James (2:44) -- I don't know what kind of blues I got (3:13) -- Perdido / Tizol (3:08) -- The "C" jam blues (2:37) -- Moon mist / Mercer Ellington (2:58) -- What am I here for? (3:28) -- I don't mind / Strayhorn, Ellington (2:49) -- Someone (3:09) -- My little brown book / Strayhorn (3:13) -- Main stem (2:47) - - Johnny come lately / Strayhorn (2:39) -- Hayfoot strawfoot / Lenk, Drake, McGrane (2:30) -- Sentimental lady (2:58) -- A slip of the lip (can sink a ship) / Henderson, M. Ellington (2:54) -- Sherman shuffle (2:38)