THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG — duke ellington

We all know the foot tapping strains of 'In a Mellow Tone"   also known as "In a Mellotone",  which is a 1939  jazz standard composed by Duke Ellington and lyrics written by Milt Gabler.  The song was itself was based on the 1917 standard " Rose Bloom" by Hickman and Williams which Ellington himself had recorded in 1932.  Subsequently, it was further immortalised as the theme tune to the Howard Stern American Talk Show during the period 1987 to 1994 on WXRK Radio.  That said, Mullard got there first as it was with so many things as this 1926 advertisement attests: -