#Dmitri Shostakoich

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A Timeline of "Tea for Two" in its Many Arrangements and Orchestrations

1925 - from the musical No, No, Nanette, by Vincent Youmans

1929 - also called Tahiti Trot, Op. 16, in Shosty's ballet The Golden Age. In 1929, Dmitri Shostakovich was challenged to re-orchestra "Tea for Two", from memory, by conductor Nikolai Malko. 

(A preview of the Bolshoi Ballet dancing to the Tahiti Trot)

1933 - A recording by jazz pianist Art Tatum

1956 - A recording by jazz pianist Thelonious Monk

1959 - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ft. Warren Covington