Victor matrix BRC-68240. The mystery song / Duke Ellington Orchestra

Additional Information
  • Description: Jazz/dance band
  • Instrumentation: Bass, 3 saxophones, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, banjo, piano, and traps
  • Category: Instrumental
  • 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; Victor blue history card; Victor ledgers; disc.
Take Date and PlaceTakeStatusLabel Name/NumberFormatNote
6/17/1931 Camden, New Jersey. Church Bldg. Studio 2 1 Hold/master Victor 22800 10-in.

The mystery song / Duke Ellington Orchestra

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The mystery song / Duke Ellington Orchestra - Victor 22800 - Take 1 - 6/17/1931
Audio from the Joe Bussard Collection provided by:
℗ © 1931 Sony Music Entertainment.
6/17/1931 Camden, New Jersey. Church Bldg. Studio 2 [1]1R Hold/master Bluebird B-6614 10-in. Victor BHC: From dub made 10/6/1936.
6/17/1931 Camden, New Jersey. Church Bldg. Studio 2 1 Hold/master Gramophone B-6133 10-in.
6/17/1931 Camden, New Jersey. Church Bldg. Studio 2 1 Hold/master RCA Victor DUKE6 Compact disc
6/17/1931 Camden, New Jersey. Church Bldg. Studio 2 2 Hold RCA Victor DUKE6 Compact disc
6/17/1931 Camden, New Jersey. Church Bldg. Studio 2 2 Master Victor [BRC-68240] 10-in.
6/17/1931 Camden, New Jersey. Church Bldg. Studio 2 3 Destroy Take listed in Victor ledgers but not on the blue history card.

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Victor matrix BRC-68240. The mystery song / Duke Ellington Orchestra," accessed December 11, 2025, http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800035198/BRC-68240-The_mystery_song.

Victor matrix BRC-68240. The mystery song / Duke Ellington Orchestra. (2025). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved December 11, 2025, from http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800035198/BRC-68240-The_mystery_song.

"Victor matrix BRC-68240. The mystery song / Duke Ellington Orchestra." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2025. Web. 11 December 2025.

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