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The song was introduced by and written specifically for Ivie Anderson who performed it in the 1937 Marx Brothers' film A Day at the Races.

Today in #Jazz History: Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert 1938.

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The Grandest Duke

On more than one occasion Duke Ellington described his childhood in Washington, D.C., as a sort of paradise, at least for him and those around him in the family circle. In the song “My Mother, My Father” (written for his 1963 musical show My People) he wrote:

My mother—the greatest—and the prettiest
My father—just handsome—but the wittiest…
I was raised in the palm of the hand
By the very best people in this land
From sun to sun
Their hearts beat as one
My mother—my father—and love

Born Edward Kennedy Ellington in 1899, he was a child of African-American privilege as understood in the early twentieth century. His father James, whose schooling stopped at the eighth grade, was a sometime butler and caterer (he worked on some parties at the Warren G. Harding White House) who later drew blueprints for the Navy; an omnivorous reader fond of operatic music, he “always,” according t

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Author Archives: Ellington Reflections
The Latin American Suite (Podcast #25-001)
Posted onJanuary 31, 2025byEllington Reflections
“The Latin American Suite,” from 1968 showed that despite advancing age and the recent death of his writing partner Billy Strayhorn, there was no end in Ellington’s creativity. Continue reading →
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Portrait of Mercer Ellington, Part III (Podcast #24-005)
Posted onDecember 28, 2024byEllington Reflections
A look at the years Mercer Ellington led the Duke Ellington Orchestra (1974 to 1996). Continue reading →
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Oddly enough, that most American of songs “All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm” was written bygd three dock, none of whom were born in the United States. Lyricist Gus Kahn was born in Germany and came to Chicago as a child. He obviously had an ear for the vernacular and began writing for vaudeville, eventually collaborating on dozens of popular tunes, many of which became jazz standards such as “Makin’ Whoopee,” “Love Me or Leave Me,” “It Had to be You,” “I’ll See You in My Dreams,” and others.
Austrian-born Walter Jurmann and Polish-born Bronislaw Kaper were composers who had teamed up in Paris and enjoyed considerable success before being contracted for MGM by Louis B. Mayer. Jurmann wrote “Love Song of Tahiti” for the 1935 rulle Mutiny on the Bounty, the title song for the