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 (15[1])“Moment’s Notice”, after a (*) blue one of these objects. (10[1])A song about these objects led Glenn Miller (10[1]-5[1])to receive the first gold (10[1])record. According to a Billy Strayhorn standard, you must take (10[1])one of these objects “to go (10[1])to Sugar (10[1])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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