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A1	Skin Deep Featuring, Drums – Louis BellsonWritten-By – L. Bellson*
A2	The Mooche Written-By – Ellington*, I. Mills*
A3	Take The "A" Train Vocals – Betty Roche*Written-By – Strayhorn*
B1	A Tone Parallel To Harlem (The Harlem Suite) Written-By – Ellington*
B2	Perdido Written-By – E. Drake*, Lenk*, Tizol*

Credits

• Design – Monogram
• Drums – Louis Bellson
• Piano – Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington
• Saxophone – Harry Carney, Hilton Jefferson, Jimmy Hamilton, Paul Gansalves*, Russell Procope
• Trombone – Britt Woodman, Juan Tizol, Quentin Jackson
• Trumpet – William Anderson*, Clark Terry, Ray Nance, Willie Cook

Notes

This is a cover and pressing variation of the Columbia Six Eye black and white labels. This version has a "4" printed in a black diamond on the upper right back corner of the cover to the left of the ML 4639 catalog number.

A release with what appear to be identical labels but a different cover without the diamond "4" and different pressing identifiers in the deadwax runouot can be found here Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Ellington Uptown.

Originally issued in 1951 with a green label Ellington Uptown

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A label): x"Lp" 12852
• Matrix / Runout (Side B label): x"Lp" 12853
• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped): XLP12852-1C
• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped): XLP12853-1B
• Other (Cover code, in black diamond, back top right corner): 4

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
ML 4639	Duke Ellington And His Orchestra	Ellington Uptown ‎(LP, Album, Mono)	Columbia, Columbia Masterworks	ML 4639	US	1951
CBS 460830 1	Duke Ellington	Ellington Uptown ‎(LP, Album, Mono, RE, RM)	CBS	CBS 460830 1	Europe	1988
ML 4639	Duke Ellington And His Orchestra	Ellington Uptown ‎(LP, Album, Mono)	Columbia, Columbia Masterworks	ML 4639	US	1951
20AP 1437	Duke Ellington And His Orchestra	Ellington Uptown ‎(LP, Album, Mono)	CBS/Sony	20AP 1437	Japan	1979
CL 830	Duke Ellington And His Orchestra	Hi-Fi Ellington Uptown ‎(LP, Album, Mono)	Columbia	CL 830	Canada	1956