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 (15[1])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 objects led Glenn Miller to receive the first gold record. According to a Billy Strayhorn standard, you must take one of these objects “to go to Sugar Hill up in Harlem.” (10[1])For 10 points, Duke (10[1])Ellington’s signature song was about the “A” example of what vehicles, such as “Chattanooga Choo Choo?” ■END■

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