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

ANSWER: trains [accept “Take the ‘A’ Train”; accept “Night Train”; accept Blue Train; prompt on vehicles or locomotives]
<Fine Arts - Other, Spencer Manning> | VAULT II Packet 05
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