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Polls

 * Billboard Songs with most radio plugs, week ending October 10, 1940 (Position this week: 12; last week: not listed).


 * Billboard Songs with most radio plugs, week ending October 17, 1940 (Position this week: 15; last week 12).


 * BB Review of Ink Spots
 * BB Review of Dick Robertson.

Arrangements

 * Charles E. Hathaway, Jr. (1901–1966), arranger (George Manning Swing Band Collection – Box 5/55; No. 353 A, page 13, year 1940), Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

Ellington recording in 1940

 * RCA Victor, a Division of RCA
 * Recording Division
 * RCA Studio 2
 * 155 East 24th Street
 * (between Lexington and Third Avenues)
 * New York

RCA Studios 1 and 2 (sometimes referred to as Studios A and B) were located on the ground floor of the building at 155 East 24th Street, on the block between Third and Lexington Avenues. The building was originally built as a seven-story stable in 1907 for Fiss, Doer & Carroll Horse Co., who at the time supplied many of the horses for use in operation of the transit system and later for the war effort in World War I.


 * John B. Doerr (1840–1901), President
 * William Fiss (1842–1908), Vice President
 * Joseph D. Carroll (1866–1912), Treasurer
 * Homer Bryson Carroll (1851–1908), partner
 * William F. Doerr, Auctioneer

The Broadcasting Yearbook's first listing for the 24th St. address was in 1937.

The Gramercy Studios of the Radio Corporation of America Picture Phone (now RCA) became the occupants of the stable building. The building was then purchased in 1942 by Paramount Filling Stations, Inc.