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These things inspired a "hillbilly" jump blues song written by Milt Gabler and recorded by Louis Jordan in 1946. A riff from "Happy-Go-Lucky Local" (20[1])inspired a song about these things by Jimmy Forrest. One band's live performances of a song named for these things featured scat-singing by Ray Nance, who played an oft-imitated trumpet solo on its original recording. The film Sun Valley Serenade popularised a (*) Glenn Miller recording (10[1])of a song (10[1])named for these (10[1])things in which the singer talks to a shoeshine boy. A song that describes using one of these things "to go to Sugar Hill (10[3])way up in (10[1])Harlem" (10[1])was (10[1])written by Billy (10[1])Strayhorn for Duke (10[1])Ellington. For 10 points, what vehicles are exemplified by the "Chattanooga Choo-Choo?" ■END■

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