COTTON CLUB EXPRESS
aka "Cotton Club Parade (1937)"

Composer: Duke Ellington
Lyricist: Irving Mills

Opened: Spring 1937, Cotton Club, N.Y.C.
Performances: Unknown

Note: This was the 28th edition of the Cotton Club Revue, but the second edition at the mid-town Cotton Club location.

Black And Tan Fantasy (inst.) (M: Duke Ellington; Bubber Miley):

I have not attempted to provide discological information for this Ellington standard.

Don't Know If I'm Comin' Or Goin' (M: Lupin Fein; L: Lee Wainer):

1. 78/Variety VA 535 (Cab Calloway, vocal, with Cab Calloway and His Orchestra) [reissued on The Chronological Cab Calloway And His Orchestra 1934-1937, CD/Classics 554]
2. 78/Vocalion 3543 (Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra) [reissued on Billie Holiday: The Legacy 1933-1958, CD/Columbia C3K-47724]
3. Hot Snow: Queen of Trumpet & Song, CD/DRG 8455 (Valaida Snow)
4. Speed Of Sound, CD/Eminent 25090 (Rosie Flores)
5. Hello Heartstring, CD/Onliest 2 (The Moonlighters)

Headin' For Heaven (Down South):

1. Personalities On Parade Volume 1, No label PP-1 (Baby Rose Marie)

Miss Otis Regrets (M/L: Cole Porter):

I have not attempted to provide discological information for this Porter standard.

Old Plantation (M/L: Lee David; John Redmond):

1. 78/Parlophone D.P. 23 (Ivie Anderson and Her Boys From Dixie) [also 78/Variety VA 591; reissued on All God's Chillun, CD/Hep 1069]
2. 78/Master MA 140 (Helene Daniels with Nat Brusiloff and His Orchestra)
3. 78/Variety VA 547 (Dolly Dawn & The Four Modernaires with George Hall and His Orchestra)
4. 78/Victor 25550 (Fats Waller, piano and voice, with Fats Waller and His Rhythm) [reissued on The Middle Years, Part 1 (1936-1938), CD/Bluebird/RCA 66083-2]
5. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra, Vol. 5: 1936-1937 - The Alternative Takes, CD/Neatwork 2039 (Ivie Anderson with the Duke Ellington Orchestra)

Peckin' (inst.) (M/L: Harry James; Ben Pollack):

1. 78/Vocalion 3830 (Cab Calloway and His Orchestra) [also 78/Variety 612; reissued on The Chronological Cab Calloway And His Orchestra 1934-1937, CD/Classics 554]
2. 78/Variety VA 556 (Ben Pollack and his Orchestra) [reissued on The Ben Pollack Orchestras: 1928-1938, CD/Jazz Band 2157]
3. 78/Victor 25621 (Benny Goodman and His Orchestra) [reissued on The Harry James Years, Vol. 1, CD/RCA 66155]
4. 78/Decca 1301 (Bing Crosby with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra) [also 78/Brunswick 02481; reissued on The Chronological Bing Crosby, Vol. 20: 1937, CD/Jonzo 20]
5. 78/Odeon 279.351 (Nat Gonella and His Georgians)
6. 78/Parrot 781 (Al Benson with the Chocolateers) [reissued on Rockin' At Midnight At The Parrot Club, CD/Relic 7027]
7. 78/Vocalion 3573 (Nemo with Ray Beagle and His Hounds Of Music)
8. Benny Goodman On the Air 1937-1938, CD/Columbia/Legacy C2K-48836]
9. The Duke's Men: Small Groups, Vol. 1, CD/Columbia C2K-46995 (Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, and others)
10. The Alternative Takes, Vol. 6: 1937-1938, CD/Neatwork 2042 (Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, and others)
11. We Got Rhythm, CD/Black & Blue 285 (Paris Swing Orchestra)
12. Trumpets in Stride, CD/Summit DCD-113 (New York Trumpet Ensemble)
13. Sailboat In The Moonlight, CD/Membran 223733 (unknown performer)

Rockin' In Rhythm (M: Harry Carney; Duke Ellington; L: Irving Mills):

I have not attempted to provide discological information for this Ellington standard.


Stormy Weather (M: Harold Arlen; L: Ted Koehler) (originally used in COTTON CLUB PARADE (1933)):

I have not attempted to provide discological information for this Arlen standard.


Where Is The Sun? (M/L: Lee David; John Redmond):

1. 78/Master MA 140 (Helene Daniels with Nat Brusiloff and His Orchestra)
2. 78/Variety VA 547 (Dolly Dawn with George Hall and His Orchestra)
3. 78/Victor 25550 (Fats Waller, piano and voice, with Fats Waller and His Rhythm) [reissued on The Middle Years, Part 1 (1936-1938), CD/Bluebird/RCA 66083-2]
4. 78/Decca 1287 (Stuff Smith, voice, with Suff Smith and His Onyx Club Boys) [The Chronological Stuff Smith And His Onyx Club Boys 1936-1939, CD/Classics 706]
5. 78/Master MA 106 (Sonny Schuyler with Rudolph Friml, Jr and His Orchestra)
6. 78/Bluebird B 6898 (Beatrice Douglas with Teddy Hill and the NBC Orchestra) [reissued on The Chronological Teddy Hill And His Orchestra 1935-1937, CD/Classics 645]
7. 78/Brunswick 7880 (Lee Sullivan with Leo Reisman and His Orchestra)
8. 78/Vocalion 3543 (Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra) [reissued on Billie Holiday: The Legacy 1933-1958, CD/Columbia C3K-47724]
9. Hot Snow: Queen of Trumpet & Song, CD/DRG 8455 (Valaida Snow)
10. Destination Moon, CD/Charmin Michelle (Charmin Michelle) (unverified)

Unrecorded Material:

Cantcha Kinda Go For Me
Cotton Club Express (inst.) (M: Duke Ellington; L: Irving Mills)
Chile (M: Reginald Foresythe; L: Andy Razaf)
The Music Makin' Man (M: J. Fred Coots; L: Haven Gillespie)
Tap Mathematician (M/L: Unknown) (may not have been a song)
Taps Is Tops (M: Reginald Foresythe; L: Andy Razaf)