"Creole Love Call" is a 1927
jazz standard
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by
Duke Ellington
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Bubber Miley and Rudy Jackson. The song is associated with vocalist
Adelaide Hall. The song entered the ''
Billboard
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'' USA song charts in 1928 at No. 19.
USA song chart entry
for "Creole Love Call" (1928). The song is #29 in the list of Ellington chart entries with information that it entered the Billboard charts at #19 in 1928.
In 1988, during a radio interview with the journalist and radio host Max Jones, Hall explained how she came up with the counter-melody in "Creole Love Call". An excerpt from the interview can be heard in the British Library
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article (published 17 December 2020) on the British Library
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blog title
''Oral History of Jazz in Britain''
See also
* List of 1920s jazz standards
Notes
References
* A. H. Lawrence, ''Duke Ellington and His World'' (London: Routledge, 2001), p. 112. .
* Williams, Iain Cameron
''Underneath A Harlem Moon ... the Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall''
Chapter 8. .
External links
at jazzstandards.com
1927 songs
Jazz compositions
1920s jazz standards
Cab Calloway songs
Songs with music by Billy Strayhorn
Songs with music by Duke Ellington
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