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Take the “A” Train
by
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
First released:
1941,
Length:
3:04
1941-07-03, mx. 30835-1
Works
(1)
Recording Of
Take the “A” Train
(03 Jul 1941)
Composer
Billy Strayhorn
(1939)
Lyricist
Joya Sherrill
(1944)
Releases containing this recording
(15)
Official
Album - Compilation
Best of the Big Bands
1989
Cab Calloway
The Chronological Classics: Cab Calloway and His Orchestra: 1940‐1941
1992
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
Pocket Jazz Big Bands
1993
Various Artists
Blowing Up a Breeze
1995
Leon “Chu” Berry
Story 1936/1945
09 Jul 1996
Jonah Jones
The Music of Prohibition
1997
Various Artists
A Portrait of Cab Calloway
26 Dec 1998
Cab Calloway
Minnie the Moocher
1998
Cab Calloway
Jitterbug
2002
Cab Calloway
Quadromania Jazz Edition: Cab Calloway: The Scat Song
28 Feb 2005
Cab Calloway
Classic Chu Berry Columbia and Victor Sessions
2007
Leon “Chu” Berry
The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 3/5: Big Bands - The Giants of the Swing Big Band Era
24 Oct 2008
Various Artists
Mr. Minnie the Moocher
29 Jul 2011
Cab Calloway
Single
Take the “A” Train / Chattanooga Choo Choo
1941
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
No “Registered U. S. Patent Office”
Take the “A” Train / Chattanooga Choo Choo
Cab Calloway and His Orchestra