"Drop Me Off in Harlem" is a 1933 song composed during the Harlem Renaissance composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics written by Nick Kenny. A.H. Lawrence...
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Caravan (Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington song) (category Jazz compositions in F minor)
Ellington in 1936. Irving Mills wrote lyrics, but they are rarely sung. The song has regained popularity since being featured prominently in the 2014 film...
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5:42 Don't Get Around Much Anymore — 10:43 Duke's Place — 4:18 Drop Me Off in Harlem — 4:57 I'm Just a Lucky So and So — 4:37 Azalea — 8:05 Black and...
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Hip-hop culture (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
"Earl 'Snakehips' Tucker". Drop Me off in Harlem. Kennedy Center. 2003. Retrieved January 31, 2010. "Drop Me Off in Harlem". Artsedge.kennedy-center.org...
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"The Wedding" – "I Surrender Dear" – "One Day When We Were Young" "Drop Me Off in Harlem" "Take the "A" Train" – "Coming on the Hudson" – "Moniebah" "Little...
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Billy Strayhorn (category Deaths from esophageal cancer in New York (state))
Strayhorn spent many months of his childhood at his grandparents' house in Hillsborough. In an interview, Strayhorn said that his grandmother was his primary...
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Take the "A" Train (category Jazz compositions in C major)
Sugar Hill in Harlem. The tune is in AABA form, in the key of C, with each section being a lyric couplet. (The Ellington band's version begins in C and rises...
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1972: Sister Woman 1994: Queen Esther Marrow & the Harlem Gospel Singers 1999: Live in Paris 2000: Harlem Gospel Singers with Queen Esther Marrow 2002: God...
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and recorded the jazz classic "Drop Me Off in Harlem" for the movie Life. Later in 1999, Robinson joined Lucy Pearl. In May 2000, the group released their...
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Mercer Ellington (category People from Harlem)
Edna Thompson (d. 1967), whom Duke married in 1918 and never divorced. Ellington grew up primarily in Harlem from the age of eight. By the age of eighteen...
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Nothing till You Hear from Me". He was also the soloist in other Ellington compositions, such as "Echoes of Harlem", "Harlem Air Shaft", and the religious...
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1936 "Shoe Shine Boy" (Brunswick 7710) July 17, 1936 "It Was a Sad Night in Harlem" (Brunswick 7710) July 17, 1936 1937 "I've Got To Be a Rug Cutter" (Master...
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
Verve MGV 4010-4 Disc one "Rockin' in Rhythm" (Harry Carney, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 5:17 "Drop Me Off in Harlem" (Nick Kenny) – 3:48 "Day Dream"...
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List of songs about New York City (category New York City in popular culture)
"Driving Here On Broadway" by Traks "Drones Over Brooklyn" by El-P "Drop Me Off in Harlem" by Duke Ellington (covered by Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald...
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History of hip-hop dance (category Dance in the United States)
from the original on April 13, 2010. Retrieved July 30, 2009. "Drop Me Off in Harlem". Kennedy-Center.org. August 29, 2008. Archived from the original...
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"Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue" is a jazz composition written in 1937 by Duke Ellington and recorded for the first time on May 15, 1937 by the Duke...
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Around Much Anymore" quickly became a hit after Bob Russell wrote its lyrics in 1942. Two different recordings of "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", one by...
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Ray Nance (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
Recordings, 1944–1946) (RCA, 1944–1946 performances) Ellington Uptown (includes Harlem Suite, Controversial Suite, Liberian Suite) (Columbia, 1947, 1951, 1952...
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Jimmy Blanton (category Tuberculosis deaths in California)
was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His mother Gertrude was a well known music teacher in Chattanooga, and he spent much of his youth playing in bands led...
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Satin Doll (category Jazz compositions in C major)
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Written in 1953, the song has been recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Billy Eckstine...
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those nominally led by his sidemen (mainly in the 1930s and early 1940s), and his later collaborations (mainly in the 1960s) with musicians with whom Ellington...
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as Ellington bringing the Cotton Club revue to the church. Grace Cathedral in San Francisco planned a "Festival of Grace", with a variety of cultural works...
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tenure with Duke Ellington. He also played tenor saxophone. Bigard was born in New Orleans to Creole parents, Alexander and Emanuella Bigard. He had two...
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Adelaide Hall (category Harlem Renaissance)
Call" with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra recorded in 1927. YouTube. "ARTSEDGE: Drop Me Off in Harlem". Artsedge.kennedy-center.org. Archived from the original...
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"Palmer Hayden, Harlem Renaissance Artist and Beyond". 1997. The African American Registry. Palmer Hayden. 2003. Drop Me Off in Harlem, exploring the intersections...
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Hawkins that was recorded on August 18, 1962, and released in February 1963 by Impulse! Records. In 1995, The New York Times called it "one of the great Ellington...
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in which I intend to portray the experiences of the colored races in America in the syncopated idiom...I am putting all I have learned into it in the...
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were the main ingredient in the band's early "jungle" sound, that evolved during the band's late 1920s engagement at Harlem's Cotton Club. According to...
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The Harlem Shake is an Internet meme in the form of a video in which a group of people dance to a short excerpt from the song "Harlem Shake". The meme...
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1960 [1991]) Live At The Crystal Gardens 1952 Jazz Party in Stereo (Columbia, 1959) Harlem 1964 Ella and Duke at the Côte d'Azur 1966 The Far East Suite...
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