[turnipmonster]

I agree about ellington, he can never have too much credit, but a lot of his stuff (as you know) goes far beyond the realm of the popular song. duke could write pop songs with the best of them, but in terms of writing the quintessential popular song it's hard to place him above someone like hoagy carmichael. of course, it's silly to talk about duke in terms of the just the popular song, since he had so much more [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].