Packet 5: Tossup 14

A song titled for these objects begins with the piano playing a repeated whole-tone glissando from E down to A-flat. Jimmy Forrest composed a song titled for these objects whose lyrics repeat city names (15[1])in a James Brown recording. (15[2]-5[1])One musician punned on his nickname by titling a 1958 album, (15[1]-5[1])which contains (15[1])“Moment’s Notice”, after a (*) blue one of these objects. (10[4]-5[1])A song (10[1])about (10[1])these (10[1])objects led Glenn (10[1])Miller (10[2]-5[1])to receive the first (10[1])gold (10[1])record. (10[1])According to a Billy Strayhorn standard, (10[2])you must take (10[3])one of these (10[1])objects (10[1])“to go (10[1])to Sugar (10[1])Hill (10[1])up in Harlem.” (10[3])For 10 points, (10[1])Duke (10[2])Ellington’s signature song (10[1])was about the “A” (10[1])example of what vehicles, (10[2])such as “Chattanooga (10[2])Choo Choo?” (10[2])■END■ (10[2])

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