Music USA #621-B
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- Theme ("Take the 'A' Train") and introduction 0:00:28
- Billy May with LaVere's Chi Loopers, "Up a Lazy River" 0:03:38
- Billy May, "Mad About the Boy" 0:03:02
- Brother John Sellers, Ruby Braff, Sir Charles Thompson, and the Basie rhythm section, "John Henry" 0:04:07
- Duke Ellington, "Are You Sticking?" 0:03:31
- Duke Ellington, "Brown Betty," live at Cornell University, November 17, 1948 0:06:52
- Cootie Williams Orchestra, "Blue Garden Blues" 0:04:04
- June Christy with Pete Rugolo, "Day Dream" 0:03:23
- Mid-program identification, radio meter band announcements 0:01:12
- Georgie Auld Orchestra, "They Didn't Believe Me" 0:02:56
- Charlie Parker, "Carvin' the Bird" 0:03:24
- Modern Jazz Quartet, "Willow, Weep for Me" 0:04:59
- Ella Fitzgerald, "Get Out of Town" 0:03:37
- Four Freshmen and Five Trombones, "Love Is Just Around the Corner" 0:02:16
- Louis Armstrong, "Blueberry Hill" 0:02:55
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Music USA #621-B, audio recording, August 14, 1956; Washington, D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc800481/: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Music Library.