Victor matrix BVE-48166. Bandanna babies / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington

Additional Information
  • Description: Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo
  • Instrumentation: 4 saxophones, 3 cornets, trombone, tuba, banjo, piano, and traps
  • Category: Instrumental with vocal refrain
  • Language: English
  • Master Size: 10-in.
Notes
Instrumentation is from Victor ledgers and is not confirmed; collective personnel from notes to a reissue compilation CD. Personnel listings here are not intended to imply that every instrument listed is played on every master recorded at the session.
Source(s): CD: Duke Ellington centennial edition : The complete RCA Victor recordings (personnel); Rigler-Deutsch Index; trade catalog; Victor ledgers.
Take Date and PlaceTakeStatusLabel Name/NumberFormatNote
11/15/1928 New York, New York 1 Hold RCA Victor DUKE2 Compact disc
11/15/1928 New York, New York 2 Master Victor V-38007 10-in.

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Bandanna babies / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington - Victor V-38007 - Take 2 - 11/15/1928
Audio of this recording from the UCSB Library
℗ © 1929 Sony Music Entertainment.

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Bandanna babies / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington - Victor V-38007 - Take 2 - 11/15/1928
Audio from the Joe Bussard Collection provided by:
℗ © 1929 Sony Music Entertainment.
11/15/1928 New York, New York 2 Master Bluebird B-7182 10-in. Listed as by Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
11/15/1928 New York, New York 2 Master RCA Victor LPV-568 LP

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Bandanna babies / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington - RCA Victor LPV-568 - Take 2 - 11/15/1928
℗ © 1969 Sony Music Entertainment.

The take number from which this recording is derived is not known.

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Victor matrix BVE-48166. Bandanna babies / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington," accessed December 11, 2025, http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800021968/BVE-48166-Bandanna_babies.

Victor matrix BVE-48166. Bandanna babies / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington. (2025). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved December 11, 2025, from http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800021968/BVE-48166-Bandanna_babies.

"Victor matrix BVE-48166. Bandanna babies / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2025. Web. 11 December 2025.

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