Take the A train/ Boy meets horn/ Things ain't what they used to be/ Hop skip and jump/ It don't mean a thing if i ain't got that swingMain stem/ Harlem air shaft/ Creole love call/ Ring them bells/ Hollywood hangover/ Take the A train
Line-up :
Duke Ellington (pn) Rex Stewart, Wallace Jones, Harold Baker, Taft Jordan, Dizzy Gillespie, Cat Anderson, Shelton Hemphill (tp) Ray Nance (tp,vln,voc) Joe Nanton, Juan Tizol, Lawrence Brown, Tricky Sam, Claude Jones (tb) Jimmy Hamilton (cl) Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwicke, Elmer Williams, Harry Carney, Al Sears (sax) Fred Guy (gt) Ernest Wilson Myers, Junior Raglin, Harry Carney (cb) Sonny Greer (dms)
Musidisc, 1943