and singing ability and her unique take on the song, Ellington hired her as a vocalist and adopted her lyrics. The vocalist who most often performed the song with the Ellington band was trumpeter Ray Nance, who enhanced the lyrics with numerous choruses of scat singing. Nance is also responsible for the trumpet solo on the first recording, which was so well suited for the song that it has often been duplicated note for note by others. The song was performed by Ellington and the band in the 1943 film Reveille with Beverly with vocalist Betty Roche. The band is depicted performing in a railroad passenger car, not a subway car. Based loosely on the chordal structure of "Exactly Like You", the song combines the propulsive swing of the 1940s-era Ellington band with the confident sophistication of Ellington and the black elite who inhabited Sugar Hill in Harlem. The tune is in AABA form, in the key of C, with each section being a lyric couplet. (The Ellington band's version begins in C and rises to the key of E after the second chorus.) Ella Fitzgerald sang and recorded this song many times from 1957 onwards; a live version with Fitzgerald scatting is on her 1961 Verve release Ella in Hollywood. Midwestern Rockers, Chicago added their version in 1995 on their back-to-the-roots-disc, Night & Day Big Band. Jo Stafford recorded an intentionally inept interpretation of the song under the pseudonym Darlene Edwards. The tune, in a version taken from Duke Ellington and his orchestra's 1941 album Hollywood, was included in the soundtrack of the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV from the fictitious in-game jazz music radio station "JNR 108.5 (Jazz Nation Radio)". The song was the theme song of the Voice of America Jazz Hour, heard worldwide on shortwave radio, for many years. Awards and honors In 1999, National Public Radio included this song in the "NPR 100", in which NPR's music editors sought to compile the one hundred most important American musical works of the 20th century. Other recordings Duke Ellington – Hollywood, (1941) Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys – The Tiffany Transcriptions (1947) Clifford Brown with Max Roach – Study in Brown (1955) Ella Fitzgerald on Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book (1957) Anita O'Day on Anita O'Day Sings the Winners (1958) Billy Strayhorn – The Peaceful Side of Billy Strayhorn Charles Mingus