Ellington was an influence on other musicians as early as the late 1920's - here are bands from 1927-1938 playing his tunes (Creole Love Call, Black and Tan Fantasy, Mood Indigo, It Don't Mean A Thing, Old Man Blues, Solitude, Sophisticated Lady, etc.) and sometimes his arrangements as well . .Cab Calloway, Don Redman, Benny Goodman, the Washboard Rhythm Kings, Mills Blue Rhythm Band, Clyde McCoy, Red Nichols, Jimmie Lunceford (playing two tunes composed but unrecorded by Ellington), Bert Firman, McKinney's Cotton Pickers and several territory bands