Reveille with Beverly (1943)

Betty Roche: Betty - Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

Quotes 

• Beverly Ross : I've been asked to settle bets, send photos, how much I weigh, if I had a sweetheart of my own, and there are so many requests for numbers that I couldn't possible play them all. However, digging in partially into my mailbag, I've come up with a request from sailor Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones. He wants to give him a Duke Ellington classic. Well, sailor, that's easy. I have one here with some fancy licks. It's the Duke's recording of "Take the 'A' Train".

  Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones : [listening from on board a ship]  Hot dog!

  Member, Duke Ellington's Orchestra : [singing]  Hurry, hurry, hurry, Take the "A" train, To get to Sugar Hill way up in Harlem...