"Creole Love Call" is a 1927 jazz standard by Duke Ellington, Bubber Miley and Rudy Jackson.Williams, Iain Cameron (2002). Underneath A Harlem Moon Chapter 8 The song is associated with vocalist Adelaide Hall.Williams, Iain Cameron (2002). Underneath A Harlem Moon The song entered the Billboard USA song charts in 1928 at No. 19.USA song chart entry for "Creole Love Call" (1928). The song is #29 in the list of Ellington chart entries with information that it entered the Billboard charts at #19 in 1928.

In 1988, during a radio interview with the journalist and radio host Max Jones, Hall explained how she came up with the counter-melody in "Creole Love Call". An excerpt from the interview can be heard in the British Library article (published 17 December 2020) on the British Library blog titled Oral History of Jazz in Britain.

See also List of 1920s jazz standards

Notes

References A. H. Lawrence, Duke Ellington and His World (London: Routledge, 2001), p. 112. . Williams, Iain Cameron, Underneath A Harlem Moon ... the Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall, Chapter 8. .

External links "Creole Love Call" at jazzstandards.com