Well it seems Strayhorn submitted A Train to Ellington in December
1938 according to one www site another site says 1941.
Give me a few minutes and I'll tell you the answer from another list I
belong to - its a jazz list.
On Feb 24, 2005, at 12:43 PM, George Thompson wrote:
I am abashed. I should have thought that Billy Strayhorn
wrote "Take
the A Train" in 1941.
GAT
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
----- Original Message -----
From: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 10:28 am
Subject: Underground Sidewalks of New York
In a message dated 2/22/05 10:13:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
I don't think that the subway lines got alphabetic
designations
until
well after WWII.
George, you're kiddin' me! You still reading those darned 19th
century
newspapers? Hey when you get up to 1932, when the IND opened, you
will find the
first letter designations, beginning with the first letter of the
alphabet,
associated with the IND. Hence, the "A" train, the major express
route on the
line.
sign me, your admirer, Christopher Gray aka Billy Strayhorn
0000,0000,DDDDJazz is freedom. - T.
Monk