Tuxedo Junction Co-written and first recorded by The Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (US #7 1940). Other hit version by Glenn Miller & His Orchestra (US #1 1940). Also recorded by The Andrews Sisters (1940). From the wiki: “‘Tuxedo Junction’ was co-written by Birmingham, Alabama, composer and band leader Erskine Hawkins, and saxophonist and arranger Bill Johnson. The song was first introduced by a jazz orchestra led by Erskine Hawkins; a student jazz orchestra made up of students at Alabama State University who, in 1934, traveled to New York City and became the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, working also with the NBC Orchestra, the Lucky Millinder Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Louis Armstrong and others. [... more]
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