Lou Robin Instantaneous Records, 1942-1953
By Maristella Feustle
Collection Overview
| Title: |
Lou Robin Instantaneous Records, 1942-1953 |
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| ID: | 06/ 133 |
| Primary Creator: | Robin, Lou |
| Extent: | 1.0 Boxes |
| Subjects: | |
| Languages: | English |
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The collection consists of one box of 10-inch instantaneous records, primarily of recordings of radio broadcasts of major jazz artists including Duke Ellington, Les Brown, Gene Krupa, Nat King Cole, Tommy Dorsey, and Woody Herman.Subject/Index Terms
Access Information
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Collection is housed in the UNT Music Library. Advance notice for use is required. Please contact the Music Library for further information.
Technical Access Note:
Requires special playback equipment.
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Administrative Information
| Repository: | Music Library |
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| Acquisition Source: | Lou Robin |
| Acquisition Method: | Donation. |
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Box 1
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Item 1: Duke Ellington Concert: Medley of Hits #1 / #2, 1947 April 30
April 30, 1947 not listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord. -
Item 2: Duke Ellington: Out of this World; C Jam Blues / Tea for Two; Take the A Train, 1945 October 13 / 1947 April 19
"Recorded by Robin." Tea for Two not listed on either date in Ellingtonia; Take the A Train unissued. -
Item 3: Duke Ellington: Fickle Fling / Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges: Passion Flower, 1948 January 31 / 1948 February
Date not listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord discography. -
Item 4: Dickey Bird Song - King Cole Trio; Crazy Rhythm - Barclay Allen
Only one side labeled. -
Item 5: Duke Ellington: Mood to Be Wooed / Yesterdays - Davis, 1945 October 27
"Recorded by Robin." -
Item 6: Ellington: Tan Your Hide (Birdland); Duet, Marshall and Hamilton, 1953
No label on disc. Description on sleeve. Selections may come from Autumn 1953 concert at Sauls Bridges American Legion Post, Tallahassee, or April 30, 1953 at Birdland. -
Item 7: Duke Ellington: Y'Oughta (aircheck, Al Killian on cornet, trumpet) / Fickle Fling (transcription)
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Item 8: Les Brown: A Good Man Is Hard to Find - Stone; Waitin' at the Station - Polk / Where's Pres? - Dave Pell, bass clarinet, 1950 October 1
Sides labeled 238, 239. Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 9: Duke Ellington Show: Frantic Fantasy; If You Are But a Dream / If You Are But a Dream; Jack the Bear, 1945 October 6
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Item 10: Duke Ellington, Empire Club, Hollywood: St. Louis Blues - Nance; Cotton Tail - Webster / Cotton Tail - Webster; Time's A-Wastin' - Hodges and Brown, 1949 February 5
Date not listed in Ellingtonia. St. Louis Blues may potentially be released per Tom Lord discography. Other titles not listed. -
Item 11: Ellington Show: Take the A Train; Black and Tan Fantasy / Black and Tan Fantasy; After All - Stuart [sic, Stewart], Hardwick, Nanton, Hodges, 1945 August 25
"Recorded by Robin." -
Item 12: Duke Ellington: In a Jam - Stewart; Frankie and Johnny / Love Like This Can't Last (Ivy); Who Struck John, 1948 January 10; 1948 January 17 / 1948 January 17
Date not listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord discography. -
Item 13: Negra Concertina; Solid as a Rock / Les Brown: Don't Worry 'Bout Strangers - [?]one, 1950 September / undated
Sides labeled 234, 245. -
Item 14: Les Brown: Kern Medley Part 1; Leap Frog Part 2 / Kern Medley Part 2; Leap Frog Part 1, 1949 October 1
Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 15: Les Brown: Sometimes I'm Happy - Polk; Caravan / Caravan Part 2; Theme Songs, 1950 July 9
Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 16: Ask Anyone Who Knows; Plumber's Song - Woody Herman, King Cole Trio / Woody Herman: Aunt Heady; Honeysuckle Rose - King Cole Trio, 1947 July 5 / 1947 July 5; 1947 July 19
Unclear which ensemble plays which tune on side 1. Ask Anyone Who Knows is Cole per Tom Lord. 7/19 not in Tom Lord discography for Cole. -
Item 17: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Light, parts 1 and 2, 1945 November 10
"Copy H.R." -
Item 18: King Cole Trio: Sweet Georgia Brown; Tangerine; Duke Ellington: Honeysuckle Rose / Honeysuckle Rose; Return Trip; You Made Me Love You - Connie Haines, 1947 September 20; 1947 September 20; 1947 October 5 / 1947 October 5
October 5 selections unissued - only Honeysuckle Rose listed specifically in Ellingtonia. Cole selections not listed for September 20 per Tom Lord. -
Item 19: Margie - Barclay Allen / Laura - Errol Garner
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Item 20: Les Brown: April Showers; In the Land of Oobladee (Stumpy Brown) / Squawkin' 'Bout My Walkin' - Comstock, 1950 July 2
Sides labeled 208, 209. Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 21: The Great Lie - Woody Herman / Then I'll Be Happy - Tommy Dorsey (Shavers - trumpet, [Savitt?] - clarinet), 1949 July 23
Sides labeled 107A, 108A. Dorsey date not listed in Tom Lord discography. Herman title appears under July 21. -
Item 22: Duke Ellington Show: Crescendo in Blue; Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea; After All, 1945 October 13
"Recorded by Robin." -
Item 23: Duke Ellington: Tear Drops in the Rain (World Transcription 8323) / Fancy Dan (Treasury broadcast), 1945
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Item 24: Tommy Dorsey: Hucklebuck - Shavers; It Feels So Good / It Feels So Good - Part 2 - Richmond, Gibbs, Shavers, 1950 July 17
Sides labeled 214, 215. Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 25: Duke Ellington: Blue Lou; Singin' in the Rain / Singin' in the Rain; Take the A Train; Blue Lou, 1947 July 27; 1947 August 4 / 1947 August 4; 1947 August 4; 1947 September
July and August dates not listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord discography. -
Item 26: The Continental - Tommy Dorsey / Keen & Peachy - Woody Herman, 1949 July 9 / 1949 July 16
Side 1 features Shorty Rogers, trumpet; Gene Ammons and Buddy Savitt, tenor saxophones; Terry Gibbs, vibraphone; Ernie Royal, trumpet; Lew Levy, piano. Dorsey date not listed in Tom Lord discography. Herman date unissued. -
Item 27: Duke Ellington: Just Squeeze Me - Nance; Dancers in the Dark / Dancers in the Dark; I Guess I'll Have to Change My Ways - C. Crumpler, 1947 July 27
Date not listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord discography. -
Item 28: Duke Ellington: Moon Mist - Nance; Bounce / Easy Street - Stewart, 1949 May 10
Date not listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord discography. -
Item 29: King Cole Trio: I Got a Feeling I'm Falling; I Beg Your Pardon - Dinning Sisters / You Were Meant for Me; I May Be Wrong; I May Be Wrong - Lee, Barbour, 1948 March 6; 1948 March 13 / 1948 March 20; 1948 March 20; 1948 April 3
Cole selections not listed for March 20 or April 3 per Tom Lord. -
Item 30: The Geek; Manana - Lee, Barbour / McNamara's Band - Dennis Day, 1948 March 13; 1948 April 3 / 1948 March 14
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Item 31: Duke Ellington: Come Sunday (from Black, Brown and Beige) / Come Sunday; Light, 1945 November 10
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Item 32: Slim Gaillard - Tiny Brown / Robert E. Lee - Jolson; Zing Went the Strings Of My Heart - Dick Haymes, 1947 July 12 / 1947 July 19
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Item 33: Shine [?], 1949
Date from sleeve. -
Item 34: Duke Ellington: Warm Valley; Do Nothing 'Til You Hear from Me / Do Nothing 'Til You Hear from Me; Stompy Jones; Time's A-Wastin', 1945 September 15 / 1945 October 27
Unclear if first selection on second side continues date from previous side. -
Item 35: Duke Ellington Band: How High the Moon / Emancipation Celebration; Antidisestablishmentarianismist, 1947 October 4
Handwritten notes on sleeve. Tracks unissued per Ellingtonia. -
Item 36: Ellington: Air Conditioned Jungle / One O'Clock Jump, 1945 September 1
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Item 37: Duke Ellington: Way Low; Tear Drops in the Rain / Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues; Time's A-Wastin', 1945 October 6
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Item 38: Duke Ellington: Light / 11:60 P.M. - Sherill; Tell It to a Star, 1945 November 10
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Item 39: Duke Ellington: Time's A-Wastin' / Three-Cent Stomp, 1945 September 22
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Item 40: Duke Ellington Show: I'll Buy That Dream; Stomp, Look, and Listen / Stomp, Look, and Listen; Take the A Train; The Wonder of You, 1945 October 27
"Recorded by Robin." Handwritten notes enclosed in sleeve. -
Item 41: Duke Ellington Show: A Door Will Open; Court Session / Court Session; The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe; How Deep Is the Ocean, 1945 November 3
"Recorded by Robin." -
Item 42: King Cole Trio: I'll Dance At Your Wedding; I Feel So Smoochy; It's Almost Like Being in Love / Too Marvelous for Words; Louella; Tea for Two, 1948 January 17; 1948 January 17; 1948 January 24 / 1948 January 24
Cole not listed for these dates per Tom Lord. -
Item 43: Duke Ellington - Eastside Show: Trumpet in Spades - Rex (Stewart); Pitter Panther Patter / Harmony in Harlem; Stepping into Swing Society, 1948 January 23
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Item 44: King Cole Trio: An Apple Blossom Wedding; Save Bones fo' Henry - Jones-Mercer-Cole / I Know That You Know; When I Take My Sugar to Tea, 1947 August 23; 1947 August 30 / 1947 August 30; 1947 September 6
Cole not listed for August 30 or September 6 dates per Tom Lord. -
Item 45: Duke Ellington - Empire Room, Hollywood: Rockin' in Rhythm; Body and Soul - Davis / Y'Oughta - Killian, 1949 February 16
Handwritten notes enclosed in sleeve. Unissued tracks per Ellingtonia. -
Item 46: Ellington: Blue Cellophane
Sleeve: "Never issued." Reverse side may contain "The Man I Love." -
Item 47: Tommy Dorsey: unidentified selection / Al Goodman: Just Because; Jeepers Creepers, 1949 July 23 / 1949 July 24
Al Goodman side: "HP [Hit Parade] of 3/4/39." Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 48: Charlie Barnet: Portrait of Duke Ellington, part 2; Chazz Me Blues / Rhubarb - Ralph Erickson, trumpet, 1949 July 31
Selections not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 49: Duke Ellington: How High the Moon; Rugged Romeo - Jordan / On the Alamo - Anderson; The Jeep is Jumpin', 1948 January 3; 1948 January 10 / 1948 January 10
Date not listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord discography. -
Item 50: Duke Ellington Show: I Can't Begin to Tell You; As Long As I Live / As Long As I Live, 1945 November 17
2:45-3:00. -
Item 51: Duke Ellington - On Display - Brown, Webster, Hamilton / Take the A Train, 1942 / 1947 April 30
Labels detached, but in sleeve. Side 1 possibly August 29, 1942 per Tom Lord discography; unreleased. Side 2 date not listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord. -
Item 52: Duke Ellington, Woody Herman: It Don't Mean a Thing - Ellington; We the People Bop - Herman; Lemon Drop - Barnet / Duke Ellington: You Oughta; Humoresue, 1949
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Item 53: Duke Ellington Show: Caravan; Riff and Drill / Riff and Drill; Time's A-Wastin'; Rock a Bye River (transcription); Someone (transcription), 1945 October 20 / 1945 October 20; 1945 October 20; 1947 April 19; 1947 Apr
"Recorded by Robin." Time's A-Wastin' and Riff'n'Drill not listed for April 19, 1947 in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord. -
Item 54: Duke Ellington Show: Take the A Train; Waitin' for the Train to Come In; I'd Do It All Over Again / I'd Do It All Over Again; Blues on the Double, 1945 October 20
"Recorded by Robin." Handwritten notes enclosed in sleeve. -
Item 55: Duke Ellington: Brown-Penny-Davis: How Blue the Sky / How Blue the Sky; Take the A Train; Just Squeeze Me, 1947 July 26; 1947 July 26; 1947 July 26; 1947 July 27
Neither date listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord discography. -
Item 56: Woody Herman: Teo the Lion - Hollywood Palladium / Midget Racing at the Fairgrounds in Pomona, 1951 May 6; undated
Second side: "Produced by U.S. Andersen Company, 7321 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, California." -
Item 57: King Cole Trio: My Blue Heaven - Delta Rhythm Boys; Pianissimo / Old Man River - the Ravens, 1948 February 7; 1948 February 21 / 1948 February 11
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Item 58: Duke Ellington - Eastside Show: After All - Hodges; Black Butterfly [Black Beauty?] / Riff and Drill - Cat Anderson; Rumpus in Richmond, 1948 January 23
Black Beauty is an unissued track per Ellingtonia. -
Item 59: Duke Ellington: end of Three-Cent Stomp - Killian; Blue Skies / Sultry Serenade - Glenn, Hodges; Rockin' in Rhythm, 1949 February 16
Unissued tracks per Ellingtonia. -
Item 60: Duke Ellington: It Don't Mean a Thing / It Don't Mean a Thing - Nance and Jordan, vocal solos, 1947 October 25 / 1947 October 26
Date not listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord discography. -
Item 61: King Cole Trio: Your Red Wagon; My Baby likes to Be-Bop (commercial) / What Is This Thing Called Love - Alice Hall; SUnday, 1948 February 21; 1948 February 28 / 1948 February 28; 1948 March 6
Cole not listed for these dates per Tom Lord. -
Item 62: Duke Ellington: How High the Moon (transcription) / Benny Goodman: Soundtrack of "All the Cats Join In" in "Make Mine Music."
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Item 63: Woody Herman: God Child - B. Savitt and Gene Ammons, tenor saxophone / Not Really the Blues, 1949 July 9
Unissued. -
Item 64: Glen Gray: No Name Jive / Art Mooney with Eddie Condon, banjo: Canadian Capers, 1949 August 20 / 1949 August 24
Dates not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 65: King Cole Trio: Across the Alley from the Alamo - June Christy; I Want to Be Happy; Give Me 20 Nickels for A Dollar / Midnight Masquerade; That's My Desire - Frankie Laine, 1947 May 24 / 1947 June 7
Cole not listed for these dates per Tom Lord. -
Item 66: Duke Ellington: Just a-Sittin' and a-Rockin' / Hollywood Hangover, 1945 September 8
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Item 67: Charlie Barnet: How High the Moon, part 2 - Barnet and Herman; Wilson, That's All / A Portrait of Duke Ellington, part 1, 1949 July 31
Selections not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 68: Charlie Barnet: Bop City; Claude Reigns / Charlie Barnet: Claude Reigns, part 2; Woody Herman: Lollypop, 1949 July 30
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Item 69: Charlie Barnet: East Side, West Side; Patti Page with the Alan Roth Band: The Wise Old Owl / Woody Herman: That's Right, undated; 1941 and 1949 / 1949 July 2
Patti Page selection: Handwritten notes on sleeve indicate "March 22, 1941 Hit Parade," "made July 3, 1949." -
Item 70: King Cole Trio: Dance Ballerina; How Soon; My Baby Likes to Be-Bop / My Baby Likes to Be-Bop; A-N-G-E-L Spells Mary; I'll Dance at your Wedding; Commercial, 1948 January 31 / 1948 January 31; 1948 February 7
Unclear which dates apply to which selections on second side. -
Item 71: Duke Ellington: Harlem Air Shaft - Harold Baker, trumpet / Tootin' Through the Roof - KIllian, Baker, Nance, trumpets, 1949 February 5
Selections and specific date not listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord discography. -
Item 72: Irving Berlin: Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning; Al Jolson: Lazy; Jolson-Crosby: Alexander's Ragtime Band / Dialogue - Berlin, Crosby, Jolson, 1947 May 7
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Item 73: Gene Krupa: Gene's Boogie - Dolores Hawkins; Star Dust - Mel Block, tenor saxophone / Star Dust (continued); Dear Old Southland - Roy Eldridge and Gene Krupa, 1949 August 17
Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 74: Woody Herman: Four Brothers - Ammons, Savitt, Chaloff, and Simms / That's Right; How High the Moon [Ornithology], 1949 July 30
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Item 75: Duke Ellington Show: I Guess I'm Just a Lucky So And So / The Last Time I Saw You, 1945 November 24
Handwritten notes enclosed in sleeve. -
Item 76: Duke Ellington: Old King Dooji; If I Loved You - Davis, Strayhorn / Unbooted Character, 1945 September 8
Handwritten notes enclosed in sleeve. -
Item 77: Duke Ellington: Diminuendo in Blue / Crescendo in Blue, 1947 October 22
Date not listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord discography. -
Item 78: Duke Ellington: Dancing in the Dark; Cross Town / Cross Town; Passion Flower, 1945 November 10
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Item 79: King Cole Trio: Oh Kickarooni; April Showers - Mel Torme; unidentified / You Don't Learn That in School; You're the Cream in My Coffee, 1947 May 10 / 1947 May 17
Cole not listed for these dates per Tom Lord. -
Item 80: Tommy Dorsey: Non-Drastic / Duke Ellington: Blue Skies - "TU Show", 1950 July 31 / 1950 August 1
Personnel on Dorsey side include Dorsey on trombone, Lou Levy on piano, Terry Gibbs on vibraphone, Walt Levinsky on clarinet, and Charlie Shavers on trumpet. Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 81: Duke Ellington: Creole Love Call - Davis / Frankie and Johnny - Nanton, trombone, 1945 September 15
"Recorded by Robin." Handwritten notes enclosed in sleeve. -
Item 82: Gene Krupa: Dear Old Southland part 2; Swiss Lullaby - Bill Black, Roy Eldridge, Dolores Hawkins / Leave Us Leap, 1949 August 17
Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 83: King Cole Trio: Cecilia; I Surrender Dear - Red Norvo; That's What / That's What; Kate, Great; Artistry Jumps - Kenton, 1947 August 9 / 1947 August 9; 1947 August 23
Cole not listed for August 9 per Tom Lord. -
Item 84: King Cole Trio: I Found a New Baby; I've Got a Gal Named Nettie / Cherokee - Starlighters, Cole; Naughty Angeline, 1947 June 7; 1947 June 14 / 1947 June 28; 1947 July 5
Cole not listed for June dates per Tom Lord. -
Item 85: Charlie Barnet: Jubilee Jump - "not air quality" / Jubilee Jump - "ok for air"
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Item 86: Duke Ellington, Carnegie Hall: Stomp (Johnny Come Lately) / Caledonia, 1943 January 23
Label for first side detached, but in sleeve. Caldonia not listed on this date. -
Item 87: Les Brown: Just a Gigolo; Don't Do Something - Polk / How High the Moon, 1950 October 8
Sides labeled 240 and 241. Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 88: Les Brown: Them There Eyes - Lucy Ann Polk; Baby Face - Butch Stone / The Lip - Dave Pell, saxophone, Ray Klein, trombone; Frank Beach, trumpet, 1950 July 23
Sides labeled 216 and 217. Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 89: Les Brown: Them There Eyes - Polk; Baby I Need You - Stone / Baby I Need You; Boptized, 1950 June 11; 1950 June 18 / 1950 June 18
Sides labeled 204 and 205. Dates not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 90: Les Brown: Ready to Go Steady; Little Girl - Stone / Abu Abu - Comstock, 1950 June 25
Sides labeled 206 and 207. Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 91: Les Brown: Pretty Baby - Polk; Hucklebuck - Brown / Mexican Hat Dance, 1950 July 30
Sides labeled 218 and 219. Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 92: Les Brown: Don't You Go Away Mad - Lucy Ann Polk, vocal / Cabin in the Sky; Brown Suede - Abe Most, 1950 June 11
Sides labeled 202 and 203. Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 93: Les Brown: Sing a Song of Sixpence - Stumpy Brown / Sometimes I'm Happy - Polk; Thanks Count, 1950 August 20 / 1950 August 28
Sides labeled 226 and 227. Dates not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 94: Les Brown: The Lip - Frank Beach / Baby Face - Stone; Sentimental Journey - Polk, 1950 September 5 / 1950 September 10
Sides labeled 232 and 233. Dates not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 95: Les Brown: Ready to Go Steady; Little Girl - Stone / Abu Abu; Shadow Time, 1950 August 7 / 1950 August 7; 1950 August 28
Sides labeled 224 and 225. Dates not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 96: Les Brown: Bebop Spoken Here - Stumpy Brown; Honeysuckle Rose - Lucy Ann Polk / Thank You Count, 1950 July 16
Sides labeled 212 and 213. Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 97: Les Brown: Bopple Sauce / Them There Eyes - Lucy Ann Polk, 1950 September 3 / 1950 September 5
Sides labeled 230 and 231. Dates not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 98: Les Brown: Caravan / S'Wonderful - Polk; Star Dust - Klein, 1950 August 21 / 1950 September 4
Sides labeled 228 and 229. Dates not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 99: Les Brown: Three Little Words; Hold the Phone - Stone / Flip Lid; Leap Frog, 1950 August 6
Sides labeled 222 and 223. Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 100: Les Brown: On the Alamo - Sims; Black Coffee - Polk / The Song Is Ended; September Song - Polk, 1950 September 17 / 1950 September 24
Sides labeled 236 and 237. Dates not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 101: Les Brown: It's Later Than You Think - Doris Day; A Foggy Day / People Will Say We're in Love, 1950 May 23; 1950 June 11 / 1950 June 11.
Sides labeled 200 and 201. Dates not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 102: Where's Pres?; Abu Abu / Bopple Sauce; Boptized, 1950 June 27
May be Les Brown. Name of Louis Robin on label, and as "client" on sleeve. Date not listed in Tom Lord discography. -
Item 103: Ellington: Oasis Club, 1952 March 15
Date not listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord discography. -
Item 104: Duke Ellington Show: How Deep Is the Ocean?; Great Victory Drive; Autumn Serenade / Autumn Serenade, 1945 November 3
"Recorded by Robin." -
Item 105: Duke Ellington Show: Emancipation Celebration; Caledonia / Caledonia; Ring dem Bells, A Door Will Open, Take the A Train, 1945 November 3
Handwritten notes in sleeve. Recorded for station KECA, Los Angeles. -
Item 106: Duke Ellington: Moon Mist; Jump for Joy / Jump for Joy; National Anthem, 1945 September 1
Handwritten notes in sleeve. -
Item 107: Ellington Program, 2:15-3:00 pm: Tonk (Pianistically Allied); I Don't Mind / I Don't Mind; The Jeep Is Jumpin'; Take the A Train, 1945 August 25
"Recorded by Robin." Handwritten notes in sleeve. Letterhead: Benjamin Robin, consultant on federal taxes. 326 Homewood Road, Los Angeles 24, California. -
Item 108: Duke Ellington: Blue Skies - Nance; Time's A-Wastin' - Hodges / Les Brown (transcription): Just a Gigolo, 1949 February 19 / 1949 March 1
February date not listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord discographies. -
Item 109: Duke Elington: Fancy Dance / Fickle Flame; Blue Serge, 1945 September 22
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Item 110: Alan Roth Band: The Music Goes Round; Amapola; Wise Old Owl / Duke Ellington: Until - Webster; Perdido, 1949 July 3 / 1949 May 10
Songs on side 1 (Roth) were apparently Hit Parade features: The Music Goes Round, January 1936; Amapola, March 1941; Wise Old Owl, March 22, 1941. May 10 date not listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord discographies. -
Item 111: Duke Ellington: Jump for Joy; Ko-Ko / Alvino Rey: Bury Me on the Lone Prairie; Land of the Sky Blue Waters, undated / 1948 August 2
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Item 112: Duke Ellington Band: Antidisestablishmentarianismist; Hi-Ya Sue / Kind of Lonesome Tonight; Kitty - Nance, 1947 October 4
Note on sleeve: "Quartet on 'Kind of Lonesome' is Carney, Hodges, Baker, Brown." Tracks other than Hi-Ya Sue unissued per Ellingtonia -
Item 113: Duke Ellington Show: Lilly Belle; Homesick, That's All / Homesick, That's All; Go Away Blues - Sherral; Frantic Fantasy, 1945 October 6
"Recorded by Robin." Handwritten notes in sleeve. -
Item 114: Woody Herman: Bijou - Bill Harris / Tommy Dorsey: Ain't You Glad I Love You - Charlie Shavers, 1949 July 16
Unissued. -
Item 115: Duke Ellington, Eastside Show: Tootin' Through the Roof - Cootie, Rex; Way Low / Solid Old Man; Old King Dooji, 1948 January 23
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Item 116: Duke Ellington Show: Take the A Train; Diminuendo in Blue / I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good - Hibbler; Crescendo in Blue, 1945 October 13
"Recorded by Robin." Handwritten notes in sleeve. 2:00-2:30 p.m. broadcast. -
Item 117: Duke Ellington: Chelsea Bridge (Strayhorn) / Something to Live For - Marie Ellington; Clementine (Strayhorn), 1945 September 8
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Item 118: King Cole Trio: Somebody Loves Me; Across the Alley from the Alamo; Mam'selle / On the Sunny Side of the Street; I Believe; commercial, 1947 April 19 / 1947 April 26; 1947 May 3; 1947 May 3
Cole not listed for these dates per Tom Lord. -
Item 119: King Cole Trio: Mam'selle; You Can Depend on Me; Everything Depends on You; Rosetta - Earl Hines / Crazy Rhythm; Linda; Route 66, 1947 April 26 / 1947 May 3
Cole not listed for these dates per Tom Lord. -
Item 120: Duke Ellington: Way Low; Solid Old Man / Solid Old Man; Summertime - Hibbler, 1945 September 8
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Item 121: Ellington Show: Body and Soul; Caravan / Caravan; Flamingo, 1945 September 1
"Recorded by Robin." -
Item 122: Duke Ellington: Take the A Train; Perdido (record); Stompy Jones (record) / Stompy Jones; Pitter Panther Patter - Ellington and Blanton (record), 1947 April 26; 1947 May 3 / 1947 May 3 (Stompy Jones); 1947 May 12
April 26, 1947 not listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord. -
Item 123: King Cole Trio: Sunday Kind of Love; Margie - Tony Pastor / It's Easy to See; 'Deed I Do, 1947 May 17 / 1947 May 17; 1947 May 24
Cole not listed for these dates per Tom Lord. -
Item 124: Duke Ellington (transcription, Standard): Madame Will Drop Her Shawl / Duke Ellington (World Transcription No. 6682): Chopsticks - arranged by Mary Lou Williams and Van Arnstedt, 1943 / 1945
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Item 125: Duke Ellington: There's No You; Jumpin' Punkin / Jumpin' Punkin; Body and Soul, 1945 September 1
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Item 126: Duke Ellington, Eastside Show: Warm Valley; Harlem Airshaft, 1948 January 23
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Item 127: Duke Ellington: Tea for Two - Anderson; Who Struck John / Boyd Raeburn: Concerto for Duke - Mood Indigo, C Jam Blues; Sophisticated Lady; It Don't Mean a Thing, 1947 December 27 / 1948 January 3
Neither tune listed in Ellingtonia or Tom Lord for December 27, 1947. January 3, 1948 not listed in either source. -
Item 128: King Cole Trio: Straighten Up and Fly Right; There Are Smiles; commercial; I Want to Thank Your Folks / Give Me 20 Nickels for a Dollar; Can You Look Me in the Eyes?, 1947 April 19
Cole not listed for these dates per Tom Lord. -
Item 129: Duke Ellington Show: Every Hour on the Hour; Cotton Tail / Cotton Tail; Way Low, 1945 October 6
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