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Creole Love Call
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Wikipedia article
"'Creole Love Call'" is a jazz standard, most associated with the Duke Ellington bandWilliams, Iain Cameron (2002). [https://www.worldcat.org/title/underneath-a-harlem-moon-the-harlem-to-paris-years-of-adelaide-hall/oclc/51780394 Underneath A Harlem Moon] Chapter 8 and Adelaide Hall.Williams, Iain Cameron (2002). [https://www.worldcat.org/title/underneath-a-harlem-moon-the-harlem-to-paris-years-of-adelaide-hall/oclc/51780394 Underneath A Harlem Moon] It entered the 'Billboard' USA song charts in 1928 at No. 29.[http://tsort.info/music/sht3ur.htm USA song chart entry] for "Creole Love Call" (1928).
In 1988, during a radio interview with the journalist and radio host Max Jones, Hall explained how she came up with the counter-melody in "Creole Love Call". An excerpt from the interview can be heard in the British Library article (published 17 December 2020) on the British Library blog titled [https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2020/12/oral-history-of-jazz-in-britain-max-jones-interviews-adelaide-hall.html 'Oral History of Jazz in Britain'].
See also
*List of 1920s jazz standards
Notes
References
* A. H. Lawrence, 'Duke Ellington and His World' (London: Routledge, 2001), p. 112. .
* Williams, Iain Cameron, [https://www.amazon.com/Underneath-Harlem-Moon-Paris-Adelaide/dp/B005ZOLV7C 'Underneath A Harlem Moon ... the Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall'], Chapter 8. .
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