Round 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 in a James Brown recording. One musician punned on his nickname by titling a 1958 album, which contains “Moment’s Notice”, after a (*) blue one of these objects. A song about these (10[1])objects led Glenn Miller to receive the first gold record. (10[1])According to a Billy Strayhorn standard, you must take one of these objects “to go to Sugar Hill up in Harlem.” For 10 points, Duke Ellington’s signature song was about the “A” example of what vehicles, such as “Chattanooga Choo Choo?” (10[1])■END■

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