EAST ST. LOUIS TOODLE-O
Created on 10/01/2006Latest update on 08/03/2024
Artist: Duke Ellington & His Kentucky Club Orch.
Author: Duke Ellington/Bubber Miley
Label: Vocalion
Year: 1926
His houseband at the Kentucky Club in New York, featuring coauthor Bubber Miley on trumpet. Re-recordings the year after for Brunswick, Columbia and Victor. His theme song in the twenties and thirties. Predates his Cotton Club years. The original shows some archaic ragtime accents, similar to the theme of Scott Joplin's Heliotrope Bouquet. That theme vanished when Ellington recut it in '37 with Cootie Williams replacing Bubber Miley.
Covers:
- 1961:
- 1974:
Steely Dan [their only instrumental; just like their bandname, this songtitle is mentioned in William Burroughs' The Naked Lunch]
- 1976:
- 1979:
- 1984:
John Barry [in film The Cotton Club]
- 2003:
